Question

I know what you’re thinking: pizza（比萨饼）？ For breakfast? But the truth is that you can have last night’s leftovers in the a.m. if you want to.

I know lots of women who skip breakfast (不吃早饭), and they have a ton of different excuses for doing it. Some say they don’t have time, others think they’re “saying” calories (卡路里)，still others just don’t like breakfast food.学科But the bottom line is that eating in the morning is very important when you’re trying to lose weight .“Eating just about anything from 300 to 400 calories would be better than nothing at all,” says Katherine Brooking, R.D. ,  who developed the super-easy eating plan for this year’s “SELF CHALLENGE”. And even pizza can be healthy if it’s loaded with vegetables, and you stick to one small piece.学科Breakfast is one meal I never miss, and the same goes for most weight loss success stories. Research shows that eating breakfast keeps you from overeating later in the day. Researchers at the University of Southern California found that breakfast skippers have a bigger chance of gaining weight than those who regularly have a morning meal.

So eat something in the morning, anything. I know plenty of friends who end up having no breakfast altogether, and have just coffee or orange juice. I say, try heating up last night’s leftovers – it may sound crazy, but if it works for you, do it! I find if I tell myself, “You can always eat it tomorrow.” I put away the leftovers instead of eating more that night. Try it … you may save yourself some pre-bedtime calories. And watch your body gain the fat-burning effects.

The word “leftovers” in paragraph I probably means  ______.

A. food remaining after a meal           B. things left undone

C. meals made of vegetables            D. pizza topped with fruit

What can we infer from the text?

A. Working women usually have breakfast in a hurry.

B. Many people have wrong ideas about breakfast.

C. There are some easy ways of cooking a meal.

D. Eating vegetables helps save energy.

According to the last paragraph, it is important to _______.

A. eat something for breakfast      B. be careful about what you cat

C. heat up food before eating it      D. cat calorie-controlled food

The text is written mainly for those _______.

 A. who go to work early            B. who want to lose weight

 C. who stay up late                D. who eat before sleep

Answer 1

【小题1】A

【小题2】B

【小题3】A

【小题4】B

解析:

这篇阅读理解是一篇大家比较熟悉的一个话题：“建议吃好早餐”。这篇文章文字简单，就总体而言，考生大致能理解和掌握它的大意：一些人们对早餐的误解；不吃早餐能减肥等错误的做法。从选材和文字特点方面可以看出，这篇文章通俗易懂，不“偏”不“怪”。如果感觉完形难度偏大的学生在做这道试题时，会相对轻松。

【小题1】猜测词义题。 可以根据构词法猜测词义。Left over为词组留下的意思，leftover是其名词形式。

【小题2】推理判断题。根据第二段开头可以推断，很多人对早餐的意义认识不到。

【小题3】段义归纳题。最后一段的eat something in the morning是本段的主题句。

【小题4】主旨大意题。由第三段和第四段反复出现lose weight可知答案。