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1、河北省卢龙县2014高考英语阅读理解自练题连载（11）及答案阅读理解Heres a familiar version of the boy-meets-girl situation. A young man has at last mastered up courage to invite a dazzling young lady out to dinner. She has accepted his invitation and he is overjoyed. He is determined to take her to the best restaurant in town, eve
2、n if it means that he will have to live on memories and hopes during the month to come. When they get to the restaurant, he discovers that this graceful creature is on a diet. She mustnt eat this and she mustnt that. Oh, but of course, she doesnt want to spoil his enjoyment. Let him by all means eat
3、 as much fattening food as he wants: its the surest way to an early grave. They spend a truly memorable evening together and never see each other again.What a miserable lot dieters are! You can always recognize them from the sour expression on their faces. They spend most of their time turning their
4、 noses up at food. They are forever consulting calorie charts; gazing at themselves in mirrors; and leaping on to weighing-machines in the bathroom. They spend a lifetime fighting a losing battle against spreading hips, protruding bellies and double chins. Some wage all-out war on FAT. Mere dieting
5、is not enough. They exhaust themselves doing exercises, sweating in sauna baths, being (用拳头连打) pummeled and massaged by weird machines. The really wealthy diet-mongers (商人) pay vast sums for “health cures”. For two weeks they can enter a nature clinic and be starved to death for a hundred pounds a w
6、eek. Dont think its only the middle-aged who go in for these fads (一时流行的风尚) either. Many of these bright young things you see are suffering from long-term malnutrition: they are living on nothing but air, water and the goodwill of God. Dieters venture to starve themselves of their own free will; so
7、why are they so miserable? Well, for one thing, theyre always hungry. You cant be hungry and happy at the same time. All the horrible stuffs they eat instead of food leave them permanently dissatisfied. Wonder food is a complete food, the advertisement says. “Just dissolve a teaspoonful in water” A
8、complete food it may be, but not quite as complete as a juicy steak. And, of course, theyre always miserable because they feel so guilty. Hunger just proves too much for them and in the end they quit and devour five huge cream cakes at a sitting. And who can blame them? At least three times a day th
9、ey are exposed to temptation. What a torture (折磨人的事) it is always watching others tucking into lots of mouth-watering food while you munch a water biscuit and sip tasteless lemon juice!Whats all this self-inflicted torture for? Saintly people deprive themselves of food to attain a state of grace. Un
10、saintly people do so to attain a state of misery. It will be a great day when all the dieters in the world abandon their slimming courses; when they hold out their plates and demand second helpings!16. What is the best title for this passage? A. On Fat B. We Should All Grow Fat and Be Happy C. Many
11、Diseases Are Connected with Fat D. Diet Deprives People of Normal Life17. What can we infer from the underlined sentence in paragraph 1?A. The restaurant offers expensive foods.B. It deserves to spend money for memories and hopes.C. The dating turned out to be a failure.D. He may not successfully im
12、press the girl.18. Why do they never see each other again? A. Because it is a memorable evening. B. Because she lets him eat as much fattening food as he wants. C. Because she does not eat this and drink that. D. Because eating fattening food is the surest way to an early grave.19. Which of the foll
13、owing ways is NOT mentioned for diet? A. Doing exercises. B. Not eating fat. C. Not eating sugar. D. Taking sauna baths.20. What is the authors attitude toward diet? A. PersuasiveB. CriticalC. IndifferentD. Supportive【参考答案】B D D C B ABest High School Band Plays Turner Field The North Cobb High Schoo
14、l Band routinely takes the field every Friday night during football season. The band plays at North Cobb football games. This week, the band had to get ready a little earlier in the week. Thats because they played before the Atlanta Braves baseball game at Turner Field. North Cobb won s Best High Sc
15、hool Band Tournament (锦标赛) last season. The prize for winning was a chance to play on the field at Turner Field before a Major League Baseball game. Tuesday night, the band collected the prize. “We were excited,” North Cobb High School Band drum major Madison Hall said. “Growing up in Atlanta, the Braves have always been such a famous figure in Atlanta, so we were really exited to have the opportunity to perform in front of a lot of people and in front of our community.” The tournament featured 64 high school bands from across Georgia. W users determined the top four band
