单选题 Passage Three
Americans are well known for the strange diets they always seem to be following. It seems that Americans like to diet almost as much as they like to eat. New types of diet plans are always coming out. Usually, though, they don't stay popular for long.
There are many diets on the market. It is often difficult to know which ones really work. It's also hard to believe how fast a dieter is supposed to shed pounds. A lot has been written about dieting. And some interesting facts about diets and foods have been discovered.
For example, did you know that the more celery you eat, the more weight you will lose.9 Celery has "negative" calories. The body burns up more calories digesting a piece of celery than there are in the celery stick itself.
Dieters shun potatoes because they think they are fattening. But they aren't. A potato has about the same number of calories as an apple. To gain a single pound, you would have to eat eleven pounds of potatoes!
Some dieters even worry about getting fat from licking postage stamps. But they have nothing to worry about. The glue on an average stamp has only about one-tenth of a calorie. Maybe a diet of postage stamps would be popular?

单选题 This passage is all about ______.
A. vegetables B. fads C. Americans D. dieting
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】短文第一句就点明主题:美国人盲目地紧跟奇怪的减肥方法是众所周知的。选项D是正确的。Fad时尚,diet节食、减肥。
单选题 Celery is a good food for the dieter because ______.
A. it has a lot of protein B. vegetables are not fattening
C. it has "negative" calories D. it is easy to digest
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】第三段。芹菜含“负”热量。你的身体在消化一块芹菜时所消耗的热量比这块芹菜本身的热量多。选项C是正确的。
单选题 The shun is to ______.
A. love B. hate C. avoid D. fear
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】第四段。文章的主题是节食。为了减肥,有些食物可以吃,而有些食物是要避开,不能吃的,人们认为土豆是增肥食品,所以不能吃要避开。选项C是正确的。
单选题 One could conclude from this passage that ______.
A. dieting is not a healthy practice
B. everyone diets
C. there is only one good way to lose weight
D. dieting can be confusing
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】根据上下文,可以推断出,作者想要表达的是节食的说法太多,以致人们都不知道究竟如何做,听信哪种说法了。选项D是正确的。