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Girls that eat with their families are less likely to develop eating disorders, a study says.

New research shows girls who regularly have   21  meals are much less likely to adopt extreme weight control 22  such as vomiting (呕吐), using laxatives (泻药)or diet pills.

A study  23  more than 2500 American high school students found that girls who ate five or more family meals a week had a much healthier 24  with food in later life.

The research,  25  in international magazine Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, polled students aged 13 to 17 in 1999 who were  26  five years later. Regular family meals were found to have a protective effect 27  the girls’ age, weight, socio-economic status,  28 habits or relationship with her family.

Experts say doctors should  29  families to have dinner at the table  30  on the couch in front of the television to 31serious eating disorders.

Belinda Dalton, director of eating disorders clinic The Oak House, said  32  with family helped "normalize"(正常化) young people's relationship with food.

"When the young are feeling that they're not dealing properly, they  33  something that they can control and food is something  34   and accessible for them to control. 35  , if they're sitting with their family on a regular basis then their family can be more in  36  of their eating," Ms Dalton said. "It's about young people feeling  37  their family and that builds self-esteem (自尊) and sense of 38  and that works very actively against someone developing an eating disorder."

An eating disorders expert, Kirsty Greenwood, said meal times were often difficult for sufferers. "It's typical that they feel very   39  of their eating habits and often won't eat with other people. Perhaps it's because they haven't  40  the importance of the family meal in their growing up," she said.

21. A. personal	B. public	C. family	D. free
22. A. behaviors	B. measures	C. progress	D. development
23. A. promoting	B. surveying	C.impressing	D. delivering
24. A. relationship	B. terms	C. company	D. communication
25. A. reported	B. suggested	C. published	D. announced
26. A. kept up	B. followed up	C. broken up	D. taken up
27. A. in terms of	B. because of	C. regardless of	D. in honor of
28. A. dieting	B. acting	C. speaking	D. working
29. A. discourage	B. stimulate	C. encourage	D. teach
30. A. apart from	B. more than	C. other than	D. instead of
31. A. come to terms with	B. keep track of	C. keep away from	D. get out of
32. A. chatting	B. cooking	C. eating	D. functioning
33. A. find	B. turn to	C. ask for	D. require
34. A. available	B. reliable	C. reasonable	D. responsible
35. A. Therefore	B. However	C. Clearly	D. Though
36. A. habit	B. control	C. convenience	D. ease
37. A. connected with	B. associated to	C. related with	D. linked to
38. A. cost	B. expense	C. delight	D. worth
39. A. ashamed	B. proud	C. confident	D. self-esteem
40. A. experienced	B. accepted	C. profited	D. urged

Answer 1

21. C 根据句意和文章内容可知，此处应该是与家人一起吃饭。

22. A 这里用behaviors指下面提到的“呕吐、吃泻药或减肥药”这些行为表现。

23. B 这里用survey的现在分词作定语，表示“采访，调查”。

24. A这里表示人与食物一种更健康的关系，因此选A。下文“said  32  with family helped "normalize"(正常化) young people's relationship with food.”有暗示

25. C 此项研究成果“刊登”在《儿科与青少年医学档案》国际期刊上。

26. B这里用follow up表示“跟踪调查”。

27. C从语境看，这里用regardless of表示“不考虑，不管”，句意为：这与女孩的年龄、体重、社会经济地位、饮食习惯以及与家人的关系都无关。

28. A从全文内容看，这里讲的话题是“饮食习惯”。

29. C大夫应该鼓励人们都到餐桌上吃饭。

30. D此处为状语，故用instead of“代替、而不”。

31. C本题选C表示“避开”，而take back意为“取回、拿回”；hold back意为“抑制、阻碍”；keep out of意为“阻止……的进入”。

32. C全文叙述的是与家人一起“就餐”。

33. B这里用turn to表示“转向”，句意为“当青少年遇到烦恼时，他们会去寻求一些他们能控制的东西”。

34. A表示孩子会求助于可以利用的东西，故选available。

35. C这里表示“显然，很明显”，因此选C。

36. B意为“对饮食习惯的一种控制能力”。

37. A和家人在一起吃饭可以使他们感到与家人的关系。四个选项只有A项搭配和含义正确，符合语境。related应与to搭配；associated应与with搭配；linked应与with搭配。

38. D培养孩子的“自尊和自我价值感”，sense of worth“自我价值感”。

39. A句意为“他们会为自己不正常的饮食习惯感到十分羞愧”，故用ashamed“羞愧”。

40. A这里用experience表示“体验”：这是因为他们在成长过程中没体会过与家人一起吃饭的重要性”，说明孩子不愿与家人一起吃饭的原因。