Question

    Diet pills ,diet Coke, diet Pepsi,  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.

Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing  our brains 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. 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 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 and physical harm that comes from using them.

1.From Paragraph 1, we can learn that     .

A. people are fed up with diet products

B. diet products are misleading people

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

D. people have difficulty in choosing diet products

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

A. try out a variety of diet foods

B. hesitate before they enjoy diet foods

C. watch their weight rather than their diet

D. pay attention to their  own eating habits

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

A. diet products bring no harm

B. diet products have no calorie

C. it costs little to stay healthy

D. losing weight needs no efforts

4.Diet  products indirectly affect 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.B

2.C

3.D

4.A

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。文章说明了减肥产品误导了人们，它们对身体有害。减肥在于思想的力量，而不是化学物质的力量。一旦我们意识到这一点，我们就能更好地抵制减肥产品，从而防止使用它们带来的心理和身体伤害。

1.推理判断题。第一段Diet pills ,diet Coke, diet Pepsi, 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.意思是减肥药、健怡可乐、健怡百事、无脂饮食、蔬菜饮食……我们的周围到处都是“节食”这个词。我们很容易被减肥产品的前景和潜力所吸引，以至于我们不再去想减肥产品对我们做了什么。我们正在为伤害我们身心的产品付出代价。由此可推断出，减肥产品误导了人们，故选B。

2.推理判断题。答案定位在第二段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.（减肥产品可以让我们跳过思考阶段，直接进入体重秤。我们所要做的就是吞下或识别食品标签上的“饮食”这个词。）由此推断出减肥产品的一个心理效应是，人们倾向于关注自己的体重，而不是饮食，故选C。

3.推理判断题。上文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. 意思是每次我们喝一杯零卡路里的饮料，我们都在无意识地告诉自己，我们不需要努力就能得到结果。由此推断出下文Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.的意思是减肥产品让人们相信，没有痛苦就会有收获，生活可以没有阻力和斗争。“gain comes without pain”意思是减肥不需要任何努力，故选D。

4.细节理解题。答案定位在倒数第二段Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients.（减肥食品会间接伤害我们的身体，因为食用它们而不是健康食品意味着我们正在阻止我们的身体获得基本的营养。）故选A。