单选题 Generations of Americans have been brought ____ 1____ to believe that a good breakfast is impor-tant fof health. Eating breakfast at the ____ 2____of the day, we have all been ____ 3____, is as necessaryas putting gasoline in the family car ____ 4____starting a trip. But for many people the thought of food first in the morning is by ____ 5____pleasures. So ____ 6____ all the efforts, they still take no ____ 7____ Between 1978 and 1983, the latest years for which figuresare ____ 8____ ,the number of people who didn' t have breakfast increased ____ 9____33 percent-from 8.8million to 11.7 million____10____the Chinese-based Market Research Corporation of America. For those who feel pain of ____11____ about not having breakfast,____ 12____. there is some goodnews. Several studies in the last few years ____ 13____that, for adults especially, there may be nothing____14____with omitting breakfast. "" Going ____ 15____breakfast does not affect ____ 16____"Said Amold E.Bendoer, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, ____17____does givingpeople breakfast improve performance. ____18____evidence relating breakfast to better health or ____ 19____performances is surprisingly inade-quate, and most of the recent work involves children, not ____ 20____ "The literature," says one researcher, Dr. Ernesto Pollitt at the University of Texas."is poor.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】此题考查动词的搭配,bring up抚养;bring about发生;bring into引进,吸收。选项C符合题意。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】此题考查固定搭配,at the stab of the day,意为“一天的开始”。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】由句意“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,可推知此处应填一介词,A项after与句意相背。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】此题考查对上下文的理解,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”;despite意为“尽管”。根据题意选A。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】本文通篇就是讲吃早餐的事,得出选项B为正确选项。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】此题考查对上下文的理解和同义词的辨析。available可用的,有效的;use使用,利用;get获得;estimate估计,评价。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】此题考查介词的搭配,increase by+数字,表示增加的程度。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】according to依据,按照,强调所述信息与引述主体二者的从属关系。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】guilt意思为“过失,内疚”,根据上下文可知选A。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】由上下文可知此句为转折句,however前后都应该有标点符号。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】indicate意为“表明”,符合文章。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】考查对上下文的理解。意思是“不吃早餐也没什么害处”。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】通过对上下文的判断可推知,此处的意思是不吃早餐。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】此句与下一句的“…does giving peoplebreakfast improve performance.”呈对比关系,所以本题选A。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】neither/not…nor为固定搭配,构成递进、对比关系。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】此题是语法题,名词前应填形容词。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】此题是语法题,名词前应填形容词。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】not构成转折,children与adults构成对比。