Question

Generations of Americans have been brought up to believe that a good breakfast is essential to one’s life. Eating breakfast at the start of the day, we have been told, and told again, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car before starting a trip.

But for many people, the thought of food as the first thing in the morning is never a pleasure. So in spite of all the efforts, they still take no breakfast. Between 1977 and 1983, the latest year for which figures could be obtained, the number of people who didn’t have breakfast increased by 33%—from 8.8 million to 11.7 million—according to the Chicago-based Market Research Corporation of America.

For those who dislike eating breakfast, however, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years have shown that, for grown-ups especially, there may be nothing wrong with omitting (省略) breakfast. “Going without breakfast does not affect work,” said Arnold E. Bender, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, “nor does giving people breakfast improve work.”

Scientific evidence linking breakfast to better health or better work is surprisingly little, and most of the recent work involves children, not grown-ups. “The literature,” says one researcher, Dr Earnest Polite at the University of Texas, “is poor.”

1. For those who do not take breakfast, the good news is that _______.

A. several studies have been done in the past few years

B. eating little in the morning is good for health

C. the omission of breakfast has little effect on one’s work

D. grown-ups have especially made studies in this field

2. The sentence in paragraph 3 “nor does giving people breakfast improve work” means _______.

A. people without breakfast can improve their work

B. having breakfast does not improve work, either

C. not giving people breakfast improves work

D. people having breakfast do improve their work, too

3. The word "literature" in the last sentence refers to _______.

A. stories, poems, play, etc

B. the films about the breakfast

C. newspaper articles or novels

D. written works on a topic

4. What is implied in the passage is that _______.

A. Breakfast does not affect work

B. Dr Polite works at Market Research Corporation

C. Not eating breakfast might affect the health of children

D. Professor Bender once taught college courses in nutrition in Chicago

5. The main idea of the passage is that _______.

A. breakfast has nothing to do with people’s health

B. breakfast is not as important as we thought before

C. breakfast is not as important to us as gasoline to a car

D. a good breakfast used to be important to us

Answer 1

1.C

2.B

3.D

4.C

5.B

【解析】

试题分析：本文主要围绕早餐的重要性展开。最新研究表明，对于成人而言，早餐不会对他们造成很大的影响，而对孩子来说，还没有证据表明不会对他们造成影响，因此，还是应该坚持吃早餐。

1.第三段中提到several studies have shown that for grown-ups especially, there may be nothing wrong with omitting breakfast. 有研究表明对于成人来说，不吃早餐不会对他们造成太大的影响，这就是好消息，选C。

2.这是Arnold E. Bender教授提出的观点，without breakfast does not affect work,nor does giving people breakfast improve work.这里Nor表示“也不，也没有”不吃早餐不会降低工作效率，当然也不会提高工作效率。所以选B

3.推理题。最后一段中可以看出the literature与前面的scientific evidence相呼应，因此literature is poor是代指前面提到的关于不吃早餐不会影响儿童健康这一观点的学术文献很少。因此选D“专题作品”

4.最后一段中Scientific evidence linking breakfast to better health or better work is surprisingly little, and most of the recent work involves children, not grown-ups. 在针对儿童展开的调查中，很少有证据证明不吃早餐对他们的身体健康不会产生影响，换言之，则是不吃早餐对孩子的健康是有可能会有影响的。因此选C

5.文章提出研究表明，对成人而言，不吃早餐不会对他们的工作身体造成太大的影响。这与我们以往所认为的观点不同。所以提出早餐并没有我们以前认为的那么重要。

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