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Generations of Americans have been brought 【26】 to believe that a good breakfast is important for health. Eating breakfast at the 【27】 of the day, we have ail been 【28】 ,is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car 【29】 starting a trip.
But for many people the thought of food first in the morning is by 【30】 pleasure. So 【31】 ail the efforts, they still take no 【32】 . Between 1978 and 1983, the latest year for which figures are 【33】 ,the number of people who didn''t have breakfast increased 【34】 33 percent ― from 8.8 million to 11.7 million 【35】 the Chinese ― based Market Research Corporation of America.
For those who feel pain of 【36】 about not having breakfast, 【37】 there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years 【38】 that, for adults especially, there may be nothing 【39】 with omitting breakfast. "Going 【40】 breakfast does not affect 【41】 "Said Arnold E. Bendoer, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, 【42】 does giving people breakfast improve performance.
【43】 evidence relating breakfast to better health or 【44】 performance is surprisingly inadequate, and most of the recent work involves children, not 【45】 "The literature," says one researcher, Dr. Emesto Pollitt at the University of Texas, "is poor."
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】bring up 抚养；bring about 发生；bring into 引进，吸收。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】at the start of the day 为固定搭配，意为“一天的开始”。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】由意思“我们均被告知”可知选D。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】空格后为动名词形式，推知此处应填一介词，故排除C、D 两项；A项 after 与句意相背。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】此句由 but 引导，说明其为转折过渡句。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】首先判定此处应填介词，排除C、D两项；in spite of意为“不管，不顾”；无 in spite 结构。