单选题Directions: Read the following text. Choose
the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER
SHEET 1. Generations of Americans have been brought
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important for health. Eating breakfast at the {{U}} {{U}} 2
{{/U}} {{/U}}of the day, we have all been {{U}} {{U}} 3
{{/U}} {{/U}}, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car {{U}}
{{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}starting a trip. But for many
people the thought of food first in the morning is by {{U}} {{U}}
5 {{/U}} {{/U}}pleasures. So {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}}
{{/U}}all the efforts, they still take no {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}}
{{/U}}. Between 1978 and 1983, the latest years for which figures are {{U}}
{{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}, the number of people who didn't have
breakfast increased {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}33 percent—from
8.8 million to 11.7 million {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}the
Chinese-based Market Research Corporation of America. For those
who feel pain of {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}about not having
breakfast, {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}, there is some good
news. Several studies in the last few years {{U}} {{U}} 13
{{/U}} {{/U}}that, for adults especially, there may be nothing {{U}}
{{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}with omitting breakfast. "Going {{U}}
{{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}breakfast does not affect {{U}} {{U}}
16 {{/U}} {{/U}}." Said Arnold E. Bendoer, former professor of nutrition
at Queen Elizabeth College in London, {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}}
{{/U}}does giving people breakfast improve performance. {{U}}
{{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}evidence relating breakfast to better health
or {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}performances is surprisingly
inadequate, and most of the recent work involves children, not {{U}}
{{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}. "The literature," says one researcher, Dr.
Ernesto Pollitt at the University of Texas, "is poor."