Question

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.
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. 1.
   From Paragraph 1, we learn that ______.
   1. A.
      diet products fail to bring out people’s potential
   2. B.
      people have difficulty in choosing diet products
   3. C.
      diet products are misleading people
   4. D.
      people are fed up with diet products
2. 2.
   One psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to ______.
   1. A.
      try out a variety of diet foods
   2. B.
      hesitate before they enjoy diet foods
   3. C.
      pay attention to their own eating habits
   4. D.
      watch their weight rather than their diet
3. 3.
   In Paragraph 3, “gain comes without pain” probably means ______.
   1. A.
      diet products bring no pain
   2. B.
      it costs a lot to lose weight
   3. C.
      losing weight is effortless
   4. D.
      diet products are free from calories
4. 4.
   Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products ______.
   1. A.
      are over-consumed
   2. B.
      lack basic nutrients
   3. C.
      are short of chemicals
   4. D.
      provide too much energy

Answer 1

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本文體裁是議論文： 開頭部分（第一段）開門見山提出論點(diǎn) → 論證部分：第一部分（第二、三段）討論減肥產(chǎn)品對(duì)消費(fèi)者的心理影響；第二部分（第四段）敘述減肥產(chǎn)品對(duì)消費(fèi)者的生理危害 → 最后一段歸納總結(jié)提出要消除錯(cuò)誤認(rèn)識(shí),樹立正確觀念。
1.C段意歸納題。此段中作者首先談到一種現(xiàn)象—— 現(xiàn)在減肥產(chǎn)品鋪天蓋地，充斥著我們的生活，然后指出有關(guān)減肥產(chǎn)品的宣傳對(duì)消費(fèi)者造成了誤導(dǎo)，減肥產(chǎn)品對(duì)人們的心理和生理都有危害。很明顯，最后一句是本段的主題句。故選C。
2.D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從本段中的Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale （秤） instead我們可以得知：減肥產(chǎn)品使得人們只關(guān)注體重上的變化而不是飲食。故選D。
3.C段意歸納題。本段告訴我們減肥產(chǎn)品對(duì)消費(fèi)者的另一心理影響是使他們認(rèn)為減肥可以“不勞而獲”，即通過減肥產(chǎn)品減肥不需要耗費(fèi)體力，忍受痛苦。
4.B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。第四段的第二句告訴我們服用減肥產(chǎn)品會(huì)導(dǎo)致人們基本營(yíng)養(yǎng)成分的缺失，說明這些減肥產(chǎn)品缺少營(yíng)養(yǎng)成分。故選B。