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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（身體上）.

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(營養(yǎng)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

1.D

2.C

3.A

4.A

【解析】

試題分析：本文主要介紹了節(jié)食的危害，雖然在日常人們看來節(jié)食是一種好的方式，但是卻隱藏這許多危害，不僅會(huì)對人們在身體上造成傷害也能心理上造成傷害。

1. are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically我們?yōu)榱四軌騻�害我們心理上和生理上的產(chǎn)品付出代價(jià)。故選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.可知節(jié)食對人們一個(gè)心里上的影響就是注重他們體重的減少而不是主意飲食的變化。故選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：每一次我們在喝零卡路的飲料時(shí)，我們就在告訴我們自己可以不通過任何沒努力就獲得節(jié)食的成功。故選A。

4. of Study Material自然段中，根據(jù)Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients(可知節(jié)食可以直接的傷害我們的身體因?yàn)樵谙�化�?jié)食食品并非健康食品時(shí)我們就是在阻止我們的身體去吸收基本的營養(yǎng)。故選A。

考點(diǎn)：考查說明文閱讀。