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Have you ever heard someone say,
"breakfast is the most important meal of the day", or give you advice
about why it's vital to start the day with a healthy breakfast? It seems that
this meal, for many of us, is necessary for our day to start well, but is it
really that important?
The word
"breakfast" comes from "breaking the fast"— the idea of
ending the period in which we don't eat during the night. The regeneration
process that takes place while we sleep consumes some of our natural food
reserves. Breakfast gives us an opportunity to replenish those reduced
stores of things like protein and calcium. So, in that way, a healthy breakfast
makes sense.
There are also
many often-quoted studies which seem to connect a state of being overweight
with not eating breakfast. In fact, it leads many health experts to advise a
healthy breakfast to not only control but also lose weight. In a US study,
50,000 people were monitored over seven years, and those who ate a healthy
breakfast were found to have a lower BMI (体重指数), which seems to suggest that
breakfast may indeed help people maintain a healthy weight.
But it might not
be as simple as that. Alexandra Johnstone, professor of appetite research at
the University of Aberdeen, suggests those who do not have breakfast might be
less aware of healthy diets and nutrition, and people who eat breakfast might
have a healthier lifestyle overall exercising and not smoking, for example. And
he also points out that with the rise in popularity of intermittent (间歇性的) fasting to lose weight, there may also be some benefits to not
eating breakfast, like improving blood sugar control and lowering blood pressure.
So, while
breakfast has its benefits, it might not be the most important meal. It seems
that a healthy lifestyle with a balanced diet might be more important for many
of us than just one single meal.
(1)
Why does the author list the questions in the first paragraph?
A . To give a warming.
B . To offer some advice.
C . To introduce the topic.
D . To prove a certain fact.
(2)
What does the underlined word "replenish" mean in paragraph 2?
A . Set aside.
B . Manage without.
C . Make up for.
D . Run out of.
(3)
What conclusion can we draw from Johnstone's research?
A . Skipping breakfast may do good to our health.
B . Those who eat breakfast can keep a lower BMI.
C . Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
D . Intermittent fasting contributes greatly to weight loss.
(4)
What does the author suggest we do at the end of the text?
A . Try new lifestyles.
B . Follow a balanced diet.
C . Pay more attention to breakfast.
D . Be aware of the benefits of each meal.
答案: C
C
A
B