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(营养专家)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：选C。推理判断题。从第一段可知，职业妇女忙，对做饭不感兴趣。由第一段的“have neither the desire nor the time to cook for themselves”可知C项正确。

7．解析：选B。推理判断题。橘汁和橘汁饮料的区别在于橘汁是自然的，有营养的，是直接从橘子中榨取的。橘汁和橘汁饮料的区别在第二段中曾经谈到过，即橘汁饮料“contains only a small percentage of real juice—the rest is largely colored sugar water”故选B。

8．解析：选A。词义猜测题。文中第四段谈到“试图寻找一种可以包治百病，又能使你成为超人的食谱是徒劳的”。因此，a fruitless search表示毫无结果的努力。fruitless的引申意义为“没有结果的，徒劳的”。

9．解析：选D。细节理解题。许多妇女想当然地认为维他命是一种食物的代替品。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”。故选D。

10．解析：选D。句意理解题。通过引用“要是没有燃料，光有火花是不行的”。作者的意思是没有碳水化合物，蛋白质和脂肪，维他命和矿物质是没有用处的。文中最后一段谈到碳水化合物、蛋白质、脂肪和维生素、矿物质的关系时，作者将碳水化合物、蛋白质、脂肪比作木材、燃料，维他命和矿物质比作火柴、火花。故选D。