单选题
Generations of Americans have been brought {{U}}(26) {{/U}}to believe that a good breakfast is important for health. Eating breakfast at the {{U}}(27) {{/U}} of the day, we have all been {{U}}(28) {{/U}}, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car {{U}}(29) {{/U}} starting a trip.
But for many people the thought of food first in the morning is by {{U}}(30) {{/U}} pleasures. So {{U}}(31) {{/U}} all the efforts, they still take no {{U}}(32) {{/U}} Between 1978 arid 1983, the latest years for which figures are {{U}}(33) {{/U}} , the number of people who didn't have breakfast increased {{U}}(34) {{/U}} 33 percent--from 8.8 million to 11.7 million {{U}}(35) {{/U}} the Chinese-based Market Research Corporation of America.
For those who feel pain of {{U}}(36) {{/U}} about not having breakfast, {{U}}(37) {{/U}}, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years {{U}}(38) {{/U}} that, for adults especially, there may be nothing {{U}}(39) {{/U}} with omitting breakfast. "Going {{U}}(40) {{/U}} breakfast does not affect {{U}}(41) {{/U}} "Said Arnold E. Bendoer, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, {{U}}(42) {{/U}} does giving people breakfast improves performance.
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【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[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。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 此题考查固定搭配,at the start of the day,意为“一天的开始”。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 由意思“我们均被告知”可知选D。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 空格后为动名词形式,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】[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】[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”。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[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】[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】[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】[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】[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】[解析] 转折句,however,前后都应该有标点符号。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] indicate意为“表明”,是完形填空的高频词汇。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 考查对原文的判断。意思是“不吃早餐也没什么害处”。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 通过对上下文的判断可推知,意思是不吃早餐。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 由下一句“...does giving people breakfast improve performance.”知前后呈对比关系。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[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】[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】[解析] or前后为平行结构,即前后词应是同样的结构,都用比较级。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] not构成转折,children与adults构成对比。