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About 70,000,000 Americans are trying to lose weight(減肥). That is almost 1 out of every 3 people in the United States. Some people eat 1 food and they hardly have any fats or sweets. Others do running, exercise with machines, take medicines, or even have operations. 2 you can see losing weight is 3 work, and it will also cost a lot of money. But __4 do so many people in the United States want to lose weight?
Many people in the United States worry about their look of the body. For many people, looking nice also means to be 5 . Other people worry about their health as many doctors 6 overweight is not good.
Most people want to find an 7 way to take off fat, and books of this kind are very popular. These books tell people how to lose weight. Each year a lot of new books like these are 8 . Each one says it can easily help people take fat away.
Losing weight can be 9 . Some overweight people go to health centres, like La Costa in California. Men and women 10 several hundred dollars a day at these health centres. People live there for one week or two, 11 exercise, eating different foods. Meals there may be just a little. All these work for losing weight. __12__ 4 days on the programme, one woman called Mrs. Warren lost 5 pounds (2.27kg). At $ 400 a day, she spent $ 320 to lose each pound. But she said she was still __13__ to do so.
Health centres, books, medicines, operations, running and exercise machines all __14__ a lot of money. So in the United States, losing weight may mean losing __15__ too.
1. A. less B. more C. nice D. fast
2. A. For B. So C. Or D. And
3. A. good B. useful C. hard D. easy
4. A. why B. what C. how D. when
5. A. high B. short C. thin D. fat
6. A. talk B. say C. speak D. tell
7. A. dearer B. harder C. shorter D. easier
8. A. taken B. given C. written D. copied
9. A. cheap B. expensive C. easy D. safe
10. A. pay B. cost C. take D. have
11. A. making B. taking C. playing D. using
12. A. Before B. In C. After D. At
13. A. sorry B. angry C. sad D. glad
14. A. need B. have C. use D. get
15. A. health B. time C. food D. money
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名師點評
這篇文章講的是美國有三分之一的人正在努力減肥，他們想盡了一切辦法去減輕體重，同時也令他們耗費了不少的金錢。
答案簡析
1. A。為了減肥，有些人只吃很少的食物。
2. B。根據上文，得知下面這個結論。所以選so表示因果關系。
3. C。減肥令人們不得不做很多令人痛苦的事，故是一項艱苦的工作。
4. A。下文講的是人們減肥的原因，所以選why。
5. C?，F在很多人都認為想要讓自己看上去漂亮就得瘦，正是這種觀點促使很多人要減肥。
6. B。這四個詞當中只有say 可以直接加說話內容。
7. D。人們都希望減肥能夠既快又簡單。
8. C。因為很多人都想減肥，所以就有人寫這方面的書籍來吸引減肥者。
9. B。根據下文得知減肥有時是一件很昂貴的事。
10. A。 在表示花錢的幾個動詞中，只有pay 和 spend 的主語為人，這里沒有 spend, 故選pay。
11. B。 take exercise意思是鍛煉。
12. C。
13. D。 雖然昂貴，但她還是很樂意去做。
14. A。 所有這些減肥的項目都是需要花費很多錢的。
15. D。 綜上所述，減肥也就意味著失去了很多金錢。
About 70,000,000 Americans are trying to lose weight(減肥). That is almost 1 out of every 3 people in the United States. Some people eat 1 food and they hardly have any fats or sweets. Others do running, exercise with machines, take medicines, or even have operations. 2 you can see losing weight is 3 work, and it will also cost a lot of money. But __4 do so many people in the United States want to lose weight?
Many people in the United States worry about their look of the body. For many people, looking nice also means to be 5 . Other people worry about their health as many doctors 6 overweight is not good.
Most people want to find an 7 way to take off fat, and books of this kind are very popular. These books tell people how to lose weight. Each year a lot of new books like these are 8 . Each one says it can easily help people take fat away.
Losing weight can be 9 . Some overweight people go to health centres, like La Costa in California. Men and women 10 several hundred dollars a day at these health centres. People live there for one week or two, 11 exercise, eating different foods. Meals there may be just a little. All these work for losing weight. __12__ 4 days on the programme, one woman called Mrs. Warren lost 5 pounds (2.27kg). At $ 400 a day, she spent $ 320 to lose each pound. But she said she was still __13__ to do so.
Health centres, books, medicines, operations, running and exercise machines all __14__ a lot of money. So in the United States, losing weight may mean losing __15__ too.
1. A. less B. more C. nice D. fast
2. A. For B. So C. Or D. And
3. A. good B. useful C. hard D. easy
4. A. why B. what C. how D. when
5. A. high B. short C. thin D. fat
6. A. talk B. say C. speak D. tell
7. A. dearer B. harder C. shorter D. easier
8. A. taken B. given C. written D. copied
9. A. cheap B. expensive C. easy D. safe
10. A. pay B. cost C. take D. have
11. A. making B. taking C. playing D. using
12. A. Before B. In C. After D. At
13. A. sorry B. angry C. sad D. glad
14. A. need B. have C. use D. get
15. A. health B. time C. food D. money
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名師點評
這篇文章講的是美國有三分之一的人正在努力減肥，他們想盡了一切辦法去減輕體重，同時也令他們耗費了不少的金錢。
答案簡析
1. A。為了減肥，有些人只吃很少的食物。
2. B。根據上文，得知下面這個結論。所以選so表示因果關系。
3. C。減肥令人們不得不做很多令人痛苦的事，故是一項艱苦的工作。
4. A。下文講的是人們減肥的原因，所以選why。
5. C。現在很多人都認為想要讓自己看上去漂亮就得瘦，正是這種觀點促使很多人要減肥。
6. B。這四個詞當中只有say 可以直接加說話內容。
7. D。人們都希望減肥能夠既快又簡單。
8. C。因為很多人都想減肥，所以就有人寫這方面的書籍來吸引減肥者。
9. B。根據下文得知減肥有時是一件很昂貴的事。
10. A。 在表示花錢的幾個動詞中，只有pay 和 spend 的主語為人，這里沒有 spend, 故選pay。
11. B。 take exercise意思是鍛煉。
12. C。
13. D。 雖然昂貴，但她還是很樂意去做。
14. A。 所有這些減肥的項目都是需要花費很多錢的。
15. D。 綜上所述，減肥也就意味著失去了很多金錢。
