If you like texting and are trying to lose weight, a new study found that using texting to track diet and exercise habits may help you lose weight.
Previous research has shown that keeping food and exercise diaries improves the likelihood of success when you are trying to lose weight. Using a computer or a pen and paper to record information, however, can be a burden and cause some people to give up.
Duke University researchers said using text messages to track eating and exercise habits can save time, and increase the chances that people will stick with their weight-loss rules.
The study included 26 obese women with an average age of 38. The women used daily texting as part of their weight-loss program. The text messages focused on tracking personalized goals, such as avoiding sugary drinks or walking 10,000 steps a day. Messages also provided brief feedback (回复) and tips.
Every morning, the women received a text from an automated system that said, “Please text yesterday’s personal information of steps you walked and how many sugary drinks you had.” Based on the women's responses to the text message, the system sent another text with personalized feedback and tips.
After six months, the women who used daily texting lost an average of nearly 3 pounds, while another group of women who used traditional methods to keep food and exercise diaries gained an average of 2.5 pounds, according to the study, which was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
“Text messaging has become popular and may be an effective method to simplify tracking of diet and exercise behavior,” Dori Steinberg, who was responsible for this research, said.
Steinberg said, "Text messaging offers several advantages compared to other self-monitoring methods. Unlike web-based diet and exercise diaries, data in a text message can be entered quickly on nearly all cellphone platforms so it is very convenient to receive feedback. Besides, because of the limited number of words used in text messages, it saves time.”
1.According to the study, traditional methods _________.
A. are easier for people to lose weight
B. may cause people to give up losing weight
C. provide brief feedback and tips
D. are easy to track diet and exercise behavior
2.Which is NOT true about text messaging according to Steinberg?
A. It saves time.
B. It saves money.
C. It can be entered quickly.
D. It is easy to receive feedback.
3.What’s the best title for the text?
A. Texting helps keep healthy
B. Texting saves time and money
C. Texting can help you lose weight
D. Texting provides brief feedback and tips
4.What’s Dori Steinberg’s attitude towards text messaging?
A. Unknown. B. Negative.
C. Positive. D. Unconcerned.
Three-year-old Teddy Lasry was sleeping in his cowboy outfit(套装)yesterday at his family’s Fifth Ave. apartment when he shot up in bed screaming. A 3-foot-long black-and-white snake twisted around his left arm and had just bitten his little finger,
“The babysitter was frightened to death.” said Teddy’s father David Lasry, who, along with his wife, Evelyn, was at work when the snake appeared about 4:00 pm. The horrified babysitter called 911 and the building’s doorman. The doorman and two cable TV workers helped take the snake off the boy’s arm and put it in a garbage bag. Police rushed Teddy to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he spent two hours attached to a heart monitor as a precaution in case the snake was poisonous. It wasn’t. Experts at the snakebite treatment center at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where policemen took the snake, found out it was a non-poisonous California king snake. But how did it end up in Teddy’s bed?
A little detective work determined that the snake had escaped two weeks ago from its cage in the apartment of a doctor whose family lives four floors below the Lasrys. The owner said his son’s pet snake likely traveled up the water pipes and into his neighbor’s apartment. “It’s a very gentle, very harmless snake, ”he said: “It’s handled by our family all the time.”
David Lasry believed the pet was simply hungry after two weeks of wandering. Evelyn said her son seems to have overcome his fright by thinking of himself as a hero cowboy as he rode in the back of the police car to the hospital.
“I told Teddy he’s a pretty snake, a nice pet snake who got out of his cage.” Evelyn said. “But he asked, ‘Why did he bite my finger, Mamma?’ And I said, ‘Because he saw that you are a big boy, Teddy, in your cowboy outfit and he got scared.’”
1.What did the babysitter do after Teddy was bitten by a snake?
A. She ran out of the apartment.
B. She took the snake off Teddy’s arm.
C. She called the TV company.
D. She made an emergency call.
2.We can learn from the passage that the snake_____.
A. was kept in a cage by its owner
B. was poisonous
C. was deserted by its owner
D. escaped to the apartment downstairs
3.Which of the following is true?
A. Teddy was awake when the snake arrived.
B. The snake had never bitten people before.
C. Teddy’s mother was at home when the snake turned up.
D. Teddy needed a heart machine to stay alive for two hours.
4.Teddy probably believed he was attacked because_________.
A. his parents weren’t at home
B. he was asleep
C. the snake was scared of him
D. the snake was hungry
A drunken burglar in the Orrell Park area of Liverpool, ended up leaping out of a window after a 10-year-old girl asked him to prove he was a superhero.
The drunken thief who pretended he was Superman to stop a child raising the alarm has been caught after he leapt from the apartment building in his pants to make the girl convinced.
Thief Ethan Adamson, 25, told police that he had broken into a fifth-floor flat after a drinking party, believing it was empty.
But he was horrified when the owner’s 10-year-old daughter woke up while he was there.
From his hospital bed, the thief told reporters, “To keep her quiet, I told her I was really Superman and I’d soon be flying off back to my secret headquarters.”
“She called my bluff (向…摊牌) and told me, ‘If you’re Superman, show me you can fly or I’ll scream’.”
“I had no choice so I stripped to my pants to look more like a superhero and went to the window. I saw another roof below and I thought I could make it but it turned out to be a lot further down than thought. I know it doesn’t make sense but it did to me when I was drunk.”
Police later found him on the roof in just his yellow pants, covered in cuts and bruises(淤青) after a neighbor heard his cries of pain.
He now faces seven years behind bars for burglary.
Police spokesman Frank Armado said, “He was in quite a serious state and couldn’t move until we got up there using ladders. He was treated for his injuries and we got him some fresh clothes, before taking him to hospital where he is being kept under guard until he is well enough to be arrested.”
1.What does the underlined part in the passage mean?
A. I could land safely on the roof.
B. I could make the girl trust me.
C. I could prove I was a superhero.
D. I could make a successful escape.
2.What’s the right order of the event?
a. Ethan Adamson told reporters of the burglary.
b. The 10-year-old girl called Ethan Adamson’s bluff.
c. Ethan Adamson attended a drinking party.
d. Ethan Adamson leapt out of a window.
A. cabd B. dbca C. cbda D.dcab
3.What is the author’s purpose of writing the passage?
A. To report on a joking burglary.
B. To call our attention to the burglary.
C. To explain how the burglar was caught.
D. To look back on an adventure story.
Shenzhen Daily 就 “Health and Wealth, Which Is More Important?” 在读者中展开讨论。假设你是李华，向报社投稿。请依据下列要点，适当添加细节，写一篇100词左右的短文。首句已给出，不计入总词数。
1. 财富比健康重要。富人受人尊敬，而穷人受歧视；
2. 健康胜于财富，健康的人才能享受生活；
3. 你的看法。
Health and Wealth, Which Is More Important?
Some people hold the view that wealth is more important than health.
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
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Last week I went to visit to my former neighbor, Mr. Yang. He and I used to living next to each other for many years. About half a year ago, an order came which our old buildings, as well as many other similar ones, should be going to be pulled away to make room for a main street. So they had to move apart. Mr. Yang now lives in the suburbs near a beautiful park. His apartment is much big than before. The only problem is that it took quite a long time to get to the downtown area. Thus, Mr. Yang doesn’t seem to worry about the long distance. He says that new subway line will be built in a few year and he is sure life will be better in the future.
According to a recent survey, violence did 1.(existence) in schools. Students showed their fear and parents and teachers also expressed their great concern about it. 2.(obvious), it’s time for the whole society to pay more attention to the mental health of adolescents (青少年).
Nowadays, school violence is 3. hot issue. I think this is a phenomenon (现象) 4.calls for our great concern. We should try every effort to prevent violence from 5.(happen) at school, for more and more students would drop out of school 6. their personal safety could not be ensured. In fact, violence can 7.(learn). Children learn violent behavior from adults or from 8. they see on television or on the Internet.
If I meet with school violence, I will not answer violence 9. violence, for it will result in more fighting. I will tell my teachers or parents about it. I think they will help me deal with it well and they will protect me from the bad guys.
All in all, every student 10. behave himself and keep away from violence.
