1、AFour out of ten women who diet end up heavier than when they started watching their waistline（腰围）, a study revealed today. The research also showed that a large percentage of women start noticing the pounds creeping back on just 21 days after reaching their ideal weight.Yesterday, Dr Ian Campbell o
2、f the Jenny Craig weight management program said: “In the UK 61.4 per cent of adults are overweight or obese. Successful weight management requires a long-term commitment in order to lose weight successfully and for good. Dieting can be a real challenge so setting realistic goals and remaining focus
3、ed on them is important. Otherwise as this research shows, women could end up heavier than when they started.”The “Food: Body: Mind” report was publicized by Jenny Craig who quizzed 2000 women aged between 18 and 65 who diet regularly on their attitudes, beliefs and behaviors around weight loss. Six
4、 in ten said they are currently on a diet and one in five women said they are on a “continuous diet”.It found the most common triggers to start dieting was seeing their “reflection in the mirror”, preparing for a summer holiday or unflattering photos posted on social networking sites. Other popular
5、reasons include comments by friends or relatives or their other half.However, the study showed that one in ten give up within one day, while almost a fifth manage to make it to a week or more. The average is ten days. Many blamed pressure they put on themselves to lose weight too quickly for the wei
6、ght gain, which leaves them with a bigger appetite than normal. Others blamed colleagues, who tuck into fatty lunches and snacks unaware of the effect it has on the dieter, while mothers who polish off their childrens leftovers（剩饭）was another common cause of weight gain.56. Which of the following mi
7、ght be the best title for this article?A. Three reasons to fail in dietingB. Important things for successful diet C. Obesity: problem for 61.4% adults in UKD. Four in ten women gain weight on diets57. In the UK, women who go on a diet _. A. are all overweight or obeseB. are likely to gain weight aga
8、in after reaching their ideal weight C. all fail because they are not persistent enoughD. end up heavier than when they start to diet58. The underlined word “triggers” in Paragraph 4 probably means _.A. effects B. examples C. causes D. imagination59. Which of the following is NOT the reason why many
9、 people quit dieting very soon?A. The pressure they put on themselves to lose weight quickly.B. Colleagues who give them fatty lunches and snacks.C. Reflections they see in the mirror. D. Leftovers of childrens taken by their mothers.60. In which column of the newspaper do you probably find the pass
10、age?A. Health.B. Economy.C. Sports.D. Education. BThe US government has started a website, Admongo, to help children think critically about the advertising aimed at them. It claims to provide visitors with an “aducation” through games and other entertainment.A cartoon man dressed in old time pilot c
11、lothing greets visitors to Admongo. Call me Haiz, he says upon arrival in a rocket ship that opens up with a crazy world inside it. Spacey dance music plays in the background as Haiz tells visitors that they need to learn about advertising.Its inventors say eight to twelve years old is the age kids
12、develop their critical thinking abilities. Kids that age are also a big market for advertisers.The idea behind Admongo is to teach children three things: To identify the advertiser. To know what the advertiser is really saying. And to know what the advertisement is trying to get the child to do.Chil
13、dren learn these things through a video game. They create their own game character. They can choose different skin colors, hair styles, eye and mouth shapes. Then they begin a trip through ad-land, where there are ads on buses and billboards. The players have to find all the marketing in the neighbo
14、rhood before they can move on to the next level.The Admongo game takes players inside a home, to the advertising studio and everywhere else ads can be found. It is a complete exploration of the world of marketing. One such area is food marketing. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says it is a big b
15、usiness. The FTC estimates that food, drink and fast-food restaurants spent more than one and a half billion dollars on advertising to young people in 2009.The FTC says children are important for three reasons. They buy products. They influence parents and caregivers to buy. And they are the future
16、adult buyers of the products.A recent study says most advertising aimed at children is for foods of the lowest nutritional value. First Lady Michelle Obama has said she would like to see advertisers marketing healthy foods for children.61. What is the best title of the text?A. A website aimed at chi
17、ldrens food B. The cartoon guide named “Haiz”C. An “aducation” website for childrenD. A popular online video game62. Why did the government start the website?A. To advertise the video game for children.B. To help children know about advertising.C. To attract the biggest market of buyers.D. To sell t
18、he products of its company.63. What can players do in the website game?A. Play video games during the trip.B. Travel to a supermarket.C. Eat in a fast-food restaurant.D. Choose appearance for their character.64. Children are important for advertising because they are .A. important for the society B.
19、 the most potential buyersC. easily influenced by adsD. easily affected by poor products65. According to Michelle Obama, lots of foods advertised for children are _. A. of low quality B. yummyC. of high nutrition D. healthyCIs language, like food, a basic human need? Judging from the extreme experim
20、ent of Frederick in the 13th century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue he told the nurses to keep silent.All the babies died before the first year. But clearly there was more than language deprivation (剥夺，丧失). What was missing was good moth
21、ering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the ability to survive is seriously affected.Today no such extreme deprivation exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is in
22、sensitive to signals of the baby, whose brain is programmed, to mop up language rapidly. There are critical times, it seems when children learn more rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again.Linguists
23、 suggest that speech milestones are reached in a fixed order and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ.Recent evidence suggests that a baby is born with the ability to speak. What is special about mans brain, compare
24、d with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a teddy bear with the sound pattern “teddy bear”.But speech has to be developed, and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child, where the mother recognizes the signals in
25、the childs babbling, clinging, grasping, crying, smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals reduces the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the childs nonverbal (非语言的) signals is basic to the growth an
26、d development of language.66. Fredericks experiment was extreme because _. A. he wanted to prove children are born with ability to speakB. he wanted his nurses to say another language C. he was unkind to the nursesD. he ignored the importance of mothering to the babies67. The reason that some childr
27、en are backward in speaking is most likely that _.A. they do not listen carefully to their mothersB. their mothers do not respond to their attempts to speak C. their brain has to absorb too much language at onceD. their mothers are not intelligent enough to help them68. In paragraph 3, by “critical
28、times” the author means _.A. difficult periods in the childs lifeB. moments when the child becomes critical towards its motherC. important stages in the childs development D. times when mothers often neglect their children69. If a child starts to speak later than others, he will _ in future.A. have
29、a high IQB. be less intelligentC. not necessarily be backward D. be insensitive to verbal signals70. If the mother seldom responds to her childs signals, _.A. the child will be able to speak properlyB. the child will continue to give out signalsC. the child will invent a language of ownD. the child will make little effort to speak