Question

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 (心理) and physically.

Diet products greatly 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 amount 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 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 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 eating them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients. 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 chemicals that go into diet products are possibly dangerous in the future.

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 have difficulty in choosing diet products

C. diet products are misleading people

D. people are tired of diet products

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

A. try out a variety of diet foods

B. think twice before they enjoy diet foods

C. pay attention to their own eating habits

D. watch their weight rather than their diet

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

A. are over-taken        B. are short of basic nutrients

C. have no chemicals     D. provide too much energy

4.Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

A. B. C. D.

CP: Central Point  P: Point   Sp: Sub-point (次要点)   C: Conclusion(结论)

Answer

1.C

2.D

3.B

4.B

【解析】

试题分析：文章讲述的是我们的生活中充斥着各种各样的减肥产品。这些产品真能帮助我们减肥吗？事实上，减肥产品不仅在身体上而且在心理上都给人们带来了危害。减肥需要坚强的决心和实际的努力锻炼，而减肥产品基本没有营养还会让人觉得减肥很简单：吃两片药片就可以。这些都告诉我们应该向减肥产品说不。

1.C细节理解题。根据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.还有第四句中的for products that harm us可知，故选C。

2.D细节理解题。根据第二段的第第二句话的意思可知，减肥产品在心理上削弱了我们。我们的体重有问题不在于在实际上失去了重量，而在于控制消耗脂肪，高热量，不健康的食品。故选 D（注意体重而不是饮食）。

3.B细节理解题。第四段的第二句告诉我们服用减肥产品会导致人们基本营养成分的缺失，说明这些减肥产品缺少营养成分。故选B。

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