Question

How to eat healthfully can be especially complex for working women who often have neither the desire nor the time to cook for themselves (or for anyone else). Registered dietitian(營養(yǎng)專家)Barhara Morrissey suggests that a few simple rules can help.

“Go for nutrient dense foods，” she suggests, “foods that contain a multiple of nutrients. For example, select whole wheat bread as a breakfast food, rather than coffee cake. Or drink orange juice rather than orange drink, which contains only a small percentage of real juice —the rest is largely coloured sugar water. You just can't compare the value of these foods, the nutrient dense ones are so superior，” she emphasizes.

Morrissey believes that variety is not only the spice of life—it's the foundation of a healthful diet. Diets which are based on one or two foods are not only virtually impossible to keep up the strength, they can be very harmful, she says, because nutrients aren't supplied in sufficient amounts or balance.

According to Morrissey, trying to find a diet that can cure your illnesses, or making you superwoman is a_fruitless_search. As women, many of us are too concerned with staying thin, she says, and we believe that vitamins are some kind of magic cure to replace food.

“We need carbohydrates, protein and fat — they are like the wood in the fireplace. The vitamins and minerals are like the match, the spark, for the fuel，” she explains. “We need them all, but in a very different proportions. And if the fuel isn't there, the spark is useless.”

6. From the paragraph we know that working women________.

A. think cooking is especially complicated

B. do not share the same views with registered dietitians

C. are busy and not interested in cooking

D. are likely to eat healthfully

7．Orange juice is different from orange drink in that ________.

A. it contains only a small percentage of real juice

B. it is natural, nutritious and prepared from real oranges

C. it is largely orange－colored sugar water

D. it produces nothing but calories

8．In Paragraph 4, “a fruitless search” means “________”．

A. an effort with no results

B. a search for a diet without fruits

C. a research on fruitless diet

D. a diet serving as medicine

9．Many women take it for granted, according to passage that ________.

A. a balanced diet can result in being fat

B. staying thin and healthy are both possible

C. lack of variety in diets leads to staying thin

D. vitamins are some kind of substitutions (替代品) for food

10．By “if the fuel isn't there, the spark is useless”， the author means ______.

A. carbohydrates, protein and fat are enough to support a human life

B. vitamins and minerals are virtually of no value

C. carbohydrates, protein and fat are as important as vitamins and minerals

D. without carbohydrates, protein and fat, vitamins and minerals are of no use

Answer 1

6．解析：選C。推理判斷題。從第一段可知，職業(yè)婦女忙，對做飯不感興趣。由第一段的“have neither the desire nor the time to cook for themselves”可知C項正確。

7．解析：選B。推理判斷題。橘汁和橘汁飲料的區(qū)別在于橘汁是自然的，有營養(yǎng)的，是直接從橘子中榨取的。橘汁和橘汁飲料的區(qū)別在第二段中曾經(jīng)談到過，即橘汁飲料“contains only a small percentage of real juice—the rest is largely colored sugar water”故選B。

8．解析：選A。詞義猜測題。文中第四段談到“試圖尋找一種可以包治百病，又能使你成為超人的食譜是徒勞的”。因此，a fruitless search表示毫無結果的努力。fruitless的引申意義為“沒有結果的，徒勞的”。

9．解析：選D。細節(jié)理解題。許多婦女想當然地認為維他命是一種食物的代替品。文中第四段提到“As women，many of us are too concerned with staying thin，she says，and we believe that vitamins are some kind of magic cure to replace food”。故選D。

10．解析：選D。句意理解題。通過引用“要是沒有燃料，光有火花是不行的”。作者的意思是沒有碳水化合物，蛋白質(zhì)和脂肪，維他命和礦物質(zhì)是沒有用處的。文中最后一段談到碳水化合物、蛋白質(zhì)、脂肪和維生素、礦物質(zhì)的關系時，作者將碳水化合物、蛋白質(zhì)、脂肪比作木材、燃料，維他命和礦物質(zhì)比作火柴、火花。故選D。