Question

When doctors urge overweight kids to pick up more activities，reading probably isn’t what they have in mind.    Yet a new study by fatness researchers at Duke University finds that the simple act of reading—depending on the choice of material—can cause weight loss in teenage girls.

The study’s experimental group included 31 fat girls aged 9 to 13，who took part in the Healthy Lifestyles Program at Duke Children’s Hospital. The girls read a novel called Lake Rescue，whose protagonist (主人公) is an overweight teenager who struggles with low self­esteem，feelings of loneliness and teasing because of her size. A group of 33 girls read a different book called Charlotte in Paris，which did not have an overweight character，and another group of 17 girls read neither book.

At the end of the six­month experiment，all the girls who read books had lost weight，but the girls who read Lake Rescue lost more. They lowered their body mass index (BMI) by 0.71，compared with 0.33 in the Charlotte group，an average 0.05 increase among the nonreaders.

The idea behind the study，says Dr Sarah Armstrong，director of Healthy Lifestyles，was to find a way to encourage the girls without adopting the restrictive and often authoritative voice of so many other nutrition and diet programs. Lake Rescue was the perfect instrument，says Armstrong；it presents a likable character to whom the girls could relate and whom they could learn from. As the book progresses，its protagonist learns to make healthier lifestyle choices and finds an adviser to help keep her on track. Armstrong says，“She learns that she can become healthier，and the ‘I can do it’ feeling resonates (產(chǎn)生共鳴) with the teenage girls.”

1.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．There are different ways to help overweight kids lose weight.

B．Lifestyle is important for kids.

C．Lake Rescue is the perfect weight­losing instrument.

D．Reading can help kids lose weight.

2.How many girls took part in the experiment?

A．31.              B．33.               C．64.              D．81.

3.What does the underlined word “She” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．Armstrong.                            B．The protagonist in Lake Rescue.

C．A character in Charlotte in Paris.            D．A girl in the first group.

4.According to the passage we can know that ________.

A．overweight girls are living unhappily

B．reading is the best way to lose weight

C．different reading materials play different roles in losing weight

D．people will become fat if they don’t read

5.In which part of a newspaper can we read the above passage?

A．Education.         B．Entertainment.      C．Health.           D．Advertisement.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.D

2.D

3.B

4.C

5.C

【解析】

試題分析：這篇文章主要講了閱讀與減肥的關(guān)系。通過實(shí)驗(yàn)證明，不同的閱讀材料在減肥中扮演著不同的角色。

1.根據(jù)Yet a new study by fatness researchers at Duke University finds that the simple act of reading—depending on the choice of material—can cause weight loss in teenage girls.故選D。

2.共有三組參加實(shí)驗(yàn)，人數(shù)分別是：31,33,17，把三組人數(shù)加起來. 故選D。

3.根據(jù)T As the book progresses，its protagonist learns to make healthier lifestyle choices and finds an adviser to help keep her on track.故選B。

4.根據(jù)At the end of the six­month experiment，all the girls who read books had lost weight，but the girls who read Lake Rescue lost more. They lowered their body mass index (BMI) by 0.71，compared with 0.33 in the Charlotte group，an average 0.05 increase among the nonreaders.故選C。

5.這篇文章主要是關(guān)于閱讀與減肥的關(guān)系，所以這樣的文章最可能出現(xiàn)在報(bào)紙的健康版塊，故選C。

考點(diǎn)：報(bào)刊類文章閱讀理解。

點(diǎn)評(píng)：要想答好題目，重在理解全文意思。這篇文章非常簡(jiǎn)單，先看問題，再帶著問題讀短文，找出各段落的主旨句，理解全文內(nèi)容，總結(jié)全文中心，然后再回到問題上來，很容易選出正確答案。