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1、2012届高考英语二轮专题精品复习资料阅读理解（四十六）1I know what youre thinking: pizza (比萨饼)? For breakfast? But the truth is that you can have last nights leftovers in the a. m. if you want to.I know lots of women who skip breakfast(不吃早餐), and they have a ton of different excuses for doing it. Some say they dont have time
2、, others think theyre saving calories (卡路里) , still others just dont like breakfast food.But the bottom line is that eating in the morning is very important when youre trying to lose weight. “Eating just about anything from 300 to 400 calories would be better than nothing at all，” says Katherine Bro
3、oking, R. D. , who developed the super-easy eating plan for this years “SELF CHALLENGE”. And even pizza can be healthy if its loaded with vegetables，and you stick to one small piece.Breakfast is one meal I never miss, and the same goes for most weight loss success stories. Research shows that eating
4、 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
5、 having no breakfast altogether，and have just coffee or orange juice. I say，try heating up last nights leftoversit 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 sav
6、e yourself some pre-bed-time calories. And watch your body gain the fat-burning effects.【文章大意概括】随着科技的进步、社会的发展，人们的生活节奏也越来越快。为了节省时间或者是为了保持苗条身材，很多人不吃早餐。然而这样做是绝对不科学的，尤其对于那些想要减肥的人是极其不利的。1. The word“ leftovers” in Paragraph 1 probably means_.A. food remaining after a mealB. things left undoneC. meals made
7、 of vegetablesD. pizza topped with fruit【详解剖析】猜测词义题。从第一段last night可以猜测出leftovers的含义为“剩饭”。【最佳选项】A2. 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 hel
8、ps save energy.【详解剖析】推理判断题。第二段告诉我们很多人有种种借口不吃早餐，第三段开始“but”一词告诉我们这样做是不对的。【最佳选项】B3. According to the last paragraph，it is important to_.A. eat something for breakfastB. be careful about what you eatC. heat up food before eating itD. eat calorie-controlled food【详解剖析】事实细节题。最后一段第一句告诉我们：早餐吃什么都可以，但要吃。【最佳选项】
9、A4The text is written mainly for those_.A. who go to work earlyB. who want to lose weightC. who stay up lateD. who eat before sleep【详解剖析】主旨大意题。第三段第一句以及第四段第一句都提示我们：本文主要写给那些想减肥的人。【最佳选项】B2When I was seven my father gave me a Timex，ray first watch. I loved it, wore it for years, and havent had another o
10、ne since it stopped ticking a decade ago. Why? Because I dont need one. I have a mobile phone and Im always near someone with an iPod or something like that. All these devices(装置) tell the time which is why, if you look around, youll see lots of empty wrists; sales of watches to young adults have be
11、en going down since 2007.But while the wise have realized that they dont need them，othersapparently including some distinguished men of our time are spending total fortunes on them. Brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe and Breitling command shocking prices, up to 250,000 for a piece.This is ridiculo
12、us. Expensive cars go faster than cheap cars. Expensive clothes hang better than cheap clothes. But these days all watches tell the time as well as all other watches. Expensive watches come with extra functions but who needs them? How often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea or need to find your
13、 direction in the area around the South Pole? So why pay that much of five years school fees for watches that allow you to do these things?If justice were done, the Swiss watch industry should have closed down when the Japanese discovered how to make accurate watches for a five-pound note. Instead t
14、he Swiss reinvented the watch ，with the aid of millions of pounds worth of advertising, as a message about the man wearing it. Rolexes are for those who spend their weekends climbing icy mountains; a Patek Philippe is for one from a rich or noble family; a Breitling suggests you like to pilot planes
15、 across the world.Watches are now classified as “investments” (投资). A 1994 Patek Philippe recently sold for nearly 350,000, while 1960s Rolexes have gone from 15,000 to 30,000 plus in a year. But a watch is not an investment. Its a toy for self-satisfaction, a matter of fashion. Prices may keep goin
16、g uptheyve been rising for 15 years. But when fashion moves on, the owner of that 350,000 beauty will suddenly find his pride and joy is no more a good investment than my childhood Timex.【文章大意概括】本文从小时候父亲买的那块表说起，简单说明了“表”曾经辉煌的历史和现在的年轻人，包括我，由于各种新设备的出现，如移动电话等上面都可识别时间，不再戴“表”似乎成了一种趋势，然而令人啼笑皆非的是尽管“表”针对年轻人的销售量越来越小，却越来越高档化。1. The sales of watches to you
