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   I know what you’re thinking: pizza（比薩餅）？ For breakfast? But the truth is that you can have last night’s leftovers in the a.m. if you want to.學科網

   I know lots of women who skip breakfast (不吃早飯), and they have a ton of different excuses for doing it. Some say they don’t have time, others think they’re “saying” calories (卡路里)，still others just don’t like breakfast food .學科網

   But the bottom line is that eating in the morning is very important when you’re trying to lose weight .  “Eating just about anything from 300 to 400 calories would be better than nothing at all,” says Katherine Brooking, R.D. ,  who developed the super-easy eating plan for this year’s “SELF CHALLENGE”. And even pizza can be healthy if it’s loaded with vegetables, and you stick to one small piece.學科網

   Breakfast is one meal I never miss, and the same goes for most weight loss success stories. Research shows that eating breakfast keeps you from overeating later in the day. Researchers at the University of Southern California found that breakfast skippers have a bigger chance of gaining weight than those who regularly have a morning meal.學科網

   So eat something in the morning, anything. I know plenty of friends who end up having no breakfast altogether, and have just coffee or orange juice. I say, try heating up last night’s leftovers it may sound crazy, but if it works for you, do it! I find if I tell myself, “You can always eat it tomorrow.” I put away the leftovers instead of eating more that night. Try it … you may save yourself some pre-bedtime calories. And watch your body gain the fat-burning effects. 學科網

41. The word “leftovers” in paragraph I probably means  ______.學科網

   A. food remaining after a meal           B. things left undone學科網

   C. meals made of vegetables            D. pizza topped with fruit學科網

42. What can we infer from the text?學科網

   A. Working women usually have breakfast in a hurry.學科網

   B. Many people have wrong ideas about breakfast.學科網

   C. There are some easy ways of cooking a meal.學科網

   D. Eating vegetables helps save energy.學科網

43. According to the last paragraph, it is important to _______.學科網

   A. eat something for breakfast      B. be careful about what you cat學科網

   C. heat up food before eating it      D. cat calorie-controlled food學科網

44. The text is written mainly for those _______.學科網

   A. who go to work early            B. who want to lose weight

   C. who stay up late                D. who eat before sleep

Answer 1

41. A；42. B；43. A；44. B。

　解析：本是一篇大家比較熟悉的一個話題：“建議吃好早餐”。這篇文章文字簡單，就總體而言，考生大致能理解和掌握它的大意：一些人們對早餐的誤解；不吃早餐能減肥等錯誤的做法。從選材和文字特點方面可以看出，這篇文章通俗易懂，不“偏”不“怪”。

41.猜測詞義：leftover: 字面理解為leave over 把…留下

   這道題原句：You can have last night’s leftovers.很明顯的是昨晚的剩飯 。

42. 推理判斷：通過I know lots of women who skip breakfast (不吃早飯), and they have a ton of different excuses for doing it. I know plenty of friends who end up having no breakfast altogether, and have just coffee or orange juice. 這些句子都可以得出結論：Many people have wrong ideas about breakfast.很多人對早餐持有錯誤的觀點。

43. 細節理解：最后一段的內容。So eat something in the morning, anything.

44. 作者意圖：作者在文章開始先提出了現象，有表明了自己的觀點（第三段）But the bottom line is that eating in the morning is very important when you’re trying to lose weight . 

還有第四段的句子Breakfast is one meal I never miss, and the same goes for most weight loss success stories. 這些句子都可以體現出來作者的文章是寫給那些要減肥的人的。