Question

The Diet Zone: A  Dangerous  Place

Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically（身体上）.

Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale（秤）instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.

On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don’t have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.

The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients(营养成分). Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.

Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using them.

1.From Paragraph 1, we learn that ________.

A. diet products fail to bring out people’s potential

B. people are fed up with diet products

C. people have difficulty in choosing diet products

D. diet products are misleading people

2.One psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to _____.

A. hesitate before they enjoy diet foods

B. pay attention to their own eating habits

C. watch their weight rather than their diet

D. try out a variety of diet foods

3.In Paragraph 3, “gain comes without pain” probably means ______.

A. losing weight is effortless

B. diet products bring no pain

C. it costs a lot to lose weight

D. diet products are free from calories

4.Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products ______.

A. lack basic nutrients    B. are over-consumed

C. are short of chemicals  D. provide too much energy

Answer

1.D

2.C

3.A

4.A

【解析】

试题分析：本文主要介绍了节食的危害，虽然在日常人们看来节食是一种好的方式，但是却隐藏这许多危害，不仅会对人们在身体上造成伤害也能心理上造成伤害。

1. are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically我们为了能够伤害我们心理上和生理上的产品付出代价。故选D。

2. one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods.可知节食对人们一个心里上的影响就是注重他们体重的减少而不是主意饮食的变化。故选C。

3. time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don’t have to work to get results.可以得知：每一次我们在喝零卡路的饮料时，我们就在告诉我们自己可以不通过任何没努力就获得节食的成功。故选A。

4. of Study Material自然段中，根据Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients(可知节食可以直接的伤害我们的身体因为在消化节食食品并非健康食品时我们就是在阻止我们的身体去吸收基本的营养。故选A。

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