Question

Health food is a general term applied to all kinds of food that is considered more healthy than the types of food sold in supermarkets.For example，whole grains，dried beans，and corn oil are health foods.A narrower classification of health food is natural food.This term is used to distinguish between types of the same food.Raw honey is a natural sweetener，while refined(提煉的)sugar is not.The most exact term of all and the narrowest classification within health food is organic food，used to describe food that has been grown on a particular kind of farm.Fruits and vegetables that are grown in gardens，that are treated only with organic fertilizers，that are not sprayed with poisonous insecticides(殺蟲劑)，and that are not refined after harvest，are organic food.

In choosing the type of food you eat，then you have basically two choices：inorganic，processed(加工)food or organic，unprocessed food.A wise decision should include study of the reason why processed food contains chemicals，some of which are proved to be poisonous and that vitamin content is greatly reduced in processed food.

Bread is typically used by health food supporters as an example of a processed food. First, the seeds from which the grain is grown are treated with a chemical which is extremely harmful. Later, the grain is sprayed with a number of very deadly insecticides. After the grain has been made into flour, it is made white with another chemical which is also poisonous. Next, a dough conditioner is added along with a softener. The conditioner and softener are poisons，and in fact, the softener has sickened and killed experimental animals.

A very poisonous antifungal compound is added to keep the bread from getting moldy(發(fā)霉的)．

Other food from the supermarket would show a similar pattern of processing and preserving. You see, we buy our food on the basis of smell, color, and texture, instead of vitamin content, and manufacturers give us what we want, even if it is poisonous. The alternative? Eat health foods，preferably the organic variety.

1．What is the passage mainly about?

A．Health food. 　　　　　　　 B．The processing of bread.

C．Processed food. 　　　　　　D．Poisons.

2．What do all of the additives in bread have in common?

A．They are all used to keep the bread from getting moldy.

B．They are all poisonous.

C．They are all organic.

D．They have all killed laboratory animals.

3．What happens to food when it is processed?

A．The basic content remains the same.

B．Vitamin is not available after processing.

C．The vitamin content increases a bit.

D．The vitamin content is greatly reduced.

4．We normally buy food on the basis of________.

A. organic variety 　　　　　　　B. beauty

C. refined contents 　　　　　　　D. smell, color and texture

 

Answer 1

1. 解析：選A。主旨大意題。綜觀全文，作者始終圍繞“健康食品”來展開說明，而B項(xiàng)“面包的生產(chǎn)過程”只是作者為說明我們應(yīng)選擇健康食品所舉的反例。

2. 解析：選B。推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第三、四段中對(duì)面包制作過程的描述可知，從種糧食開始直到添加防腐劑制成面包的過程中，所使用的各種添加物都是有毒的，故B項(xiàng)是面包中所有添加劑的共性。

3. 解析：選D。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從文章第二段最后一句可知，加工食品中維他命的含量大大降低了。

 

4. 解析：選D。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。文章最后一段第二句提到我們通常購(gòu)買食品時(shí)依據(jù)的是食物的味、色、形。