We Should All Grow Fat and Be Happy

Here’s a familiar version of the boy-meets-girl situation. A young man has at last plucked up courage to invite a dazzling young lady out to dinner. She has accepted his invitation and he is overjoyed. He is determined to take her to the best restaurant in town, even if it means that he will have to live on memories and hopes during the month to come. When they get to the restaurant, he discovers that this ethereal creature is on a diet. She mustn’t eat this and she mustn’t that. Oh, but of course, she doesn’t want to spoil his enjoyment. Let him by all means eat as much fattening food as he wants: it’s the surest way to an early grave. They spend a truly memorable evening together and never see each other again.

       What a miserable lot dieters are! You can always recognize them from the sour expression on their faces. They spend most of their time turning their noses up at food. They are forever consulting calorie charts; gazing at themselves in mirrors; and leaping on to weighing-machines in the bathroom. They spend a lifetime fighting a losing battle against spreading hips, protruding tummies and double chins. Some wage all-out war on FAT. Mere dieting is not enough. They exhaust themselves doing exercises, sweating in sauna baths, being pummeled and massaged by weird machines. The really wealthy diet-mongers pay vast sums for ‘health cures’. For two weeks they can enter a nature clinic and be starved to death for a hundred guineas a week. Don’t think it’s only the middle-aged who go in for these fads either. Many of these bright young things you see are suffering from chronic malnutrition: they are living on nothing but air, water and the goodwill of God.

       Dieters undertake to starve themselves of their own free will; so why are they so miserable? Well, for one thing, they’re always hungry. You can’t be hungry and happy at the same time. All the horrible concoctions they eat instead of food leave them permanently dissatisfied. Wonderfood(奇妙的事物) is a complete food, the advertisement says. ‘Just dissolve a teaspoonful in water…’. A complete food it may be, but not quite as complete as a juicy steak. And, of course, they’re always miserable because they feel so guilty. Hunger just proves too much for them and in the end they lash out and devour five huge guilt-inducing cream cakes at a sitting. And who can blame them? At least three times a day they are exposed to temptation. What utter torture it is always watching others tucking into piles of mouth-watering food while you munch a water biscuit and sip unsweetened lemon juice!

       What’s all this self-inflicted torture for? Saintly people deprive themselves of food to attain a state of grace. Unsaintly（saintly<圣潔的>的反義詞） people do so to attain a state of misery. It will be a great day when all the dieters in the world abandon their slimming courses; when they hold out their plates and demand second helpings!

The best title for this passage is

A On Fat.

B We Should All Grow Fat and Be Happy.

C Many Diseases Are Connected with Fat.

D Diet Deprives People of Normal Life.

Why do they never see each other again?

A Because it is a memorable evening.

B Because she lets him eat as much fattening food as he wants.

C Because she does not eat this and drink that.

D Because eating fattening food is the surest way to an early grave.

Which of the following ways is NOT mentioned for diet?

A Doing exercises.  B Not eating sugar.  C Not eating fat.  D Taking sauna baths.

What is the author’s attitude toward diet?

A Persuasive.   B Critical.   C Indifferent.   D Adversative.

【小題1】B

【小題2】D

【小題3】B

【小題4】B


解析:

文章論及“減肥及痛苦”。以先聲奪人的男女約會(huì)入手，引入減肥的痛苦過(guò)程：首先是各種減肥的方法（全面戰(zhàn)斗）；其次是痛苦的難熬；最后點(diǎn)出減肥的目的。號(hào)召人放棄減肥。三段式文章：引言，正文和結(jié)論。以諷刺的筆調(diào)，步步深入的手法勸人放棄減肥，過(guò)愉快的生活。

【小題1】我們都該長(zhǎng)得胖乎乎，心情愉快。這是文章的目的，也是文章最佳標(biāo)題。答案見(jiàn)最后一段：“這一切自我折磨為了什么？圣潔的人們不吃飯菜是為了身材優(yōu)美，不圣潔的人們不吃飯菜得到的是痛苦。當(dāng)世界上所有的節(jié)食者都拋棄這減輕體重顯得苗條的課程時(shí)當(dāng)他們伸出盤(pán)子，要求再來(lái)一份（第二份食物）時(shí)，這將是一個(gè)偉大的日子。”

A. 論脂肪。似乎有點(diǎn)兒接近文章的內(nèi)容。但文章涉及到的各個(gè)方面并不是單講脂肪食品或飲食問(wèn)題。C. 許多疾病和脂肪有關(guān)。文內(nèi)第一段提到這方面的問(wèn)題。D. 節(jié)食剝奪了人們正常生活。文內(nèi)提到，但不是文章的總目的和內(nèi)容。

【小題2】吃脂肪食品早死。答案就在第一段“當(dāng)他們來(lái)到飯店，他發(fā)現(xiàn)這位優(yōu)雅的少女（飄逸的少女）是個(gè)忌口節(jié)食者。決不能吃這個(gè)，一定不能喝那個(gè)。喔，當(dāng)然，她不想掃他的興，讓他想吃多少脂肪的食品就盡量吃。這是早早接近死亡的最有把握的途徑。”這里傳遞兩點(diǎn)信息。一個(gè)吃，一個(gè)不吃已經(jīng)是格格不入，再加上“多吃脂肪東西早死亡”姑娘怎能嫁他，他一個(gè)人吃而那位姑娘瞧著，確實(shí)是難以忘懷的夜晚，他受得了？所以D是最接近不再見(jiàn)面的原因。

A. 因?yàn)檫@是一個(gè)值得紀(jì)念的夜晚。B. 她讓他愛(ài)吃多少脂肪食物就吃多少。C.因?yàn)樗怀赃@個(gè)也不吃那個(gè)。這三項(xiàng)都是單獨(dú)的事實(shí)或情況。

【小題3】不吃糖。答案再第二段第二句開(kāi)始“他們大部分時(shí)間對(duì)食品都不屑一顧。他們永遠(yuǎn)向熱量表討教咨詢(xún)，照鏡子，跳到浴室的磅秤上稱(chēng)重量。他們一聲都在向臀部大，肚子突出，雙下巴綻開(kāi)一個(gè)準(zhǔn)輸無(wú)疑的戰(zhàn)斗。有的對(duì)脂肪開(kāi)展了全面戰(zhàn)斗。光節(jié)食是不夠的，他們運(yùn)動(dòng)以消耗體重，洗桑拿浴出汗，用奇異的機(jī)器按摩和擊打�！�

A. 運(yùn)動(dòng)做操。C.不吃脂肪。D.洗桑拿浴。

【小題4】批評(píng)的態(tài)度。這在第二、三段都有明顯的表示。第二段開(kāi)始：“這些節(jié)食者是多么可憐的一群人�。∧憧偸强梢詮乃麄兂蠲疾徽沟谋砬樯险J(rèn)出他們。”第二段倒數(shù)第四句開(kāi)始：“這些真正有錢(qián)的節(jié)食大款為健康治療支付大筆的款項(xiàng)。他們進(jìn)到“自然門(mén)診”。兩個(gè)星期餓得要死，每星期付一百畿尼。別以為僅僅是中年人參與這種時(shí)尚活動(dòng)。你可以見(jiàn)到許多青年正由于長(zhǎng)期營(yíng)養(yǎng)不良而遭罪。他們就靠空氣、水和上帝的善意而活著�！钡谌�，“節(jié)食者甘愿忍饑挨餓，那么他們?yōu)槭裁茨菢与y受悲慘呢？得，首先，他們總是感到饑餓。你不可能餓著肚子高興。他們吃的不是食物，全是搭配好的東西，這永遠(yuǎn)不能使他們滿(mǎn)意……”第三段倒數(shù)第三句“饑餓確實(shí)令他們感到太受不了了。最終，他們破釜沉舟，一口氣就吞下了五大塊使人內(nèi)疚的奶油蛋糕。誰(shuí)能責(zé)怪他們！他們一天至少三次面對(duì)引誘，老是看著別人大口吃著饞涎欲滴的食品，而你自己用力嚼一口水餅干和喝一口沒(méi)有甜味的檸檬汁。這是一種什么樣的折磨�。　�

A.勸導(dǎo)的。 C.漠不關(guān)心。這兩項(xiàng)不對(duì)。D. 敵意的。不合適。

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