Generations of Americans have been brought____26to believe that a good breakfast is important for health. Eating breakfast at the____27of the day, we have all been28,is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car ____ 29starting a trip.
But for many people the thought of food first in the morning is by ____ ____30pleasures. So ____ 31 all the efforts, they still take no ____ 32. Between 1978 and 1983, the latest years for which figures are ____ 33, the number of people who didn' t have breakfast increased ____ 3433 percent--from8.8 million to 11.7 million____35the Chinese hased Market Research Corporation of America.
For those who feel pain of____ 36about not having breakfast, ____37, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years ____ 38that, for adults especially, there may be nothing ____ 39with omitting breakfast. "Going ____ 40breakfast does not affect ____41. "Said Arnold E. Bendoer, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London,____42does giving people breakfast improve performance.
___43evidence relating breakfast to better health or___44 performances is surprisingly inadequate, and most of the recent work involves children, not___45"The literature," says one researcher, Dr. Ernesto Pollitt at the University of Texas, "is poor. "
26. A.a(chǎn)bout
B.into
C.up
D.from
27. A.start
S.end
C.morning
D.begin
28. A.said
B.believed
C.reported
D.told
29. A.a(chǎn)fter
B.before
C.when
D.a(chǎn)s
30. A.some
B.a(chǎn)ny
C.no
D.a(chǎn)ll
31. A.despite
B.in spite
C.though
D.however
32. A.brunch
B.breakfast
C.lunch
D.supper
33. A.a(chǎn)vailable
B.used
C.got
D.estimated
34. A.with
S.a(chǎn)t
C.by
D.from
35. A.from
B.a(chǎn)ccording to
C.through
D.out of
36. A.guilt
B.happiness
C.sadness
D.eagerness
37. A.however
B.therefore
C.whereas
D.but
38. A.indicate
B.report
C.a(chǎn)nnounce
D.declare
39. A.wrong
B.right
C.correct
D.incorrect
40. A.without
B.with
C.from
D.out of
41. A.performance
B.health
C.heart
D.brain
42. A.not
B.neither
C.either
D.nor
43. A.Science
B.Scientist
C.Scientific
D.Scientists
44. A.better
B.good
C.well
D.worse
45. A.people
B.men
C.humans
D.a(chǎn)dults
參考譯文
所有的美國人從小就被灌輸?shù)囊粋信念是:早飯吃好對健康很重要。我們一直被告誡在每天的開始吃早飯是十分必要的,這就好像是在旅程開始前在家用車?yán)锛訚M油一樣。
可是,很多人仍然不喜歡早上吃東西。不管人們怎樣宣傳鼓勵,他們還是不吃早飯。據(jù)美國駐中國的市場研究機(jī)構(gòu)現(xiàn)有的最近幾年的數(shù)據(jù)顯示,在1978年到l983年之間,不吃早餐的人數(shù)上升了33%,即從880萬人上升到1,170萬人。
然而,仍然有好消息給那些因不吃早飯而有愧疚感的人。過去幾年的研究表明,不吃早飯并不會產(chǎn)生不良后果,對成年人尤其如此。曾就職于倫敦伊麗莎白女王學(xué)院營養(yǎng)學(xué)系的阿諾德•E•本杜爾教授指出:“不吃早飯并不會影響人們的表現(xiàn),”吃早飯也不會使人們表現(xiàn)得更好。
關(guān)于吃早飯有益健康或是使人表現(xiàn)更好的科學(xué)證據(jù)極其不足,而且大部分研究都是關(guān)于兒童而不是成年人的。其中一位研究人員,得克薩斯州立大學(xué)的歐內(nèi)斯圖•波利特說:“這些文獻(xiàn)證據(jù)不足。” |