A listener from China has written for advice about how to lose weight. Michael in Shanghai says he is 26 and has battled obesity for most of his life.
Obesity, a severe weight problem, is a complex condition. A doctor may advise taking medicine along with changing one's behaviors. Experts say that the most successful weight-loss plans include a wellbalanced diet and exercise.
People who want to avoid weight gain have to balance the number of calories they eat with the number of calories they use. To lose weight, you can reduce the number of calories you take in, increase the number you use, or both.
A recent study looked at four of the most popular dieting plans in the US. Researchers at Stanford University in California studied over 300 overweight women, mostly in their thirties and forties. Each woman went on one of the four plans: Atkins, The Zone, Ornish or LEARN. The women attended diet classes and received written information about the food plans.
At the end of the year, the women on the Atkins diet had lost the most, more than four and one-half kilograms on average. They also did better on tests for cholesterol levels and blood pressure.
Christopher Gardner, who led the study, says the Atkins diet may be more successful because of its simple message to eat less sugar. He also says that the advice to increase protein in the diet leads to more satisfying meals. He says that there was not enough money to study men, but that men would probably have similar results.
Last week, another report based on thirty-one studies suggested that only a small minority of people have long-term success with dieting. Most dieters regained their lost weight within five years and often they become more overweight. But those who kept the weight off generally were the ones who exercised.
Title: to lose weight
| Doctors' advice |
●take medicine along with |
| Experts' |
●a well-balanced diet: ● |
| Four of the most popular dieting plans in the US |
●Atkins: eat less sugar than usual and ●The Zone ● ●LEARN |
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●have long-term success with dieting, otherwise most dieters will ●exercise is more important than dieting for |
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根据所学课文在68-77的空格里填上所缺的单词，并将答案转写到答题卡上。
As you know, the UN 68the lives of people everywhere. The organization is involved in peacekeeping 69to help end some of the world’s horrible conflicts. Watch any TV report 70places where there is a war, and you 71s
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I have visited many countries in Africa. Recently, I was fortunate enough to travel to South Africa, where I met some women who have 72themselves into a group. They 73one rand (approximately 1.35 yuan) per day from each other and add it to a 74of money the government gives them. With this, the women have enough money to buy 75materials to make basket. They then sell these at the market. With luck their group will be able to expand and maybe set up a shop. This group was set up by UNIFEM, the United Nations 76Fund for Women. There are lots of such programmes and funds under the 77of the UN, and these have helped millions of people across the world.
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66． the sun does great harm to your skin so you should avoid doing so in daily life.
67．Nowadays plastics many conventional materials.
68．A terrible earthquake struck Wenchuan in Sichuan Province in 2008, many injuries and deaths.
69．With the development of science and technology, the young generation surfing the Internet and playing computer games, which has a bad influence on their study.
70．With the victim himattempted murder, the man was thrown into great depression.
71．It is unlikely for him to his boss, who is strict and mean, his innocence.
72．Super Junior, a band made up of 13 handsome boys, both boys and girls in the school.
73．Some scientific researches provide further support for the idea that even small differences in lifestyle may health in the population.
74．Look at the expression on his face! He must great difficulty in yesterday’s knowledge contest.
75． the car which was speeding, the traffic police decided to ask his colleagues to search for it.
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仔细阅读下面短文，短文中有10个空格。请按照语境以及括号里的具体要求完成语法填空、词形变化等。答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的对应位置。
The holiday’s upon us. After months of study, you have some time to yourself. So, why not read a book? Well, some people will say, ‘Why trouble with books? We have the Internet and 16 media that offer a lot more 17 (colour) programs. Books are history!”
But don’t be fooled. There’s still a lot to be said for reading and reading as widely as possible.
One clear reason is that a well-chosen book is a wonderful collection 18 words and expressions, so long as you have a good dictionary, of course. Believe me, it’s far easier to get new English words and expressions from a book or article 19 it is from the TV or the Internet.
But an even more important point is 20 books give you something that modern media simply can not: The webpage is always full of pictures and the text is often designed to make it as easy to read as possible.
Though “easy” may be welcome, 21 (luck) it’s of little use for any long-time development of reading skills and the general language level. For that, there’s still no substitute(替代品) for a book.
But perhaps the best single reason is that simply 22 (choose) what you read and doing it by yourself 23 (mean) that it’s something you do by and for yourself. You can choose what you want to read. It’s hard work, 24 while you are reading, you’ll find that what once 25 (seem) like a duty is now a pleasure.
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Not long ago there was a girl called Daisy. One day she woke up and found a flying carpet by her bed, which took Daisy to Tibet of China to see antelopes. The antelope told her that they lived a sad life, because they were killed for the fur that was taken from under their s _______(61). Every year thousands of antelopes are killed and now they are becoming e______________(62) species.
Daisy was very sad and then she asked the carpet to bring her to some place where the animals were well protected. Next minute she was in Zimbabwe. Daisy first saw an excited elephant. It asked Daisy to take its picture. In Zimbabwe, Daisy knew the people began to realize the i __________(63) of animals, especially the g________(64), and they decided to help. They allowed t(65) to hunt only a certain number of animals if they were willing to pay the farmers.
The carpet rose again and almost at once they were in a t________(66) rain forest. A monkey watched her as it r_______(67) itself. The monkey said the millipede contained a p_________(68)drug which could affect m ______(69). And the monkey told Daisy to take care of the rain forest. Daisy was a _______(70). Later, the carpet flew Daisy home and Daisy found it was only a dream, but she learned a lot from her experience.
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阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填人一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为3l~40的相应位置上。
Scientists have found “significant” amounts of water in a crater (火山口) at the moon’s south pole, a major 31 (discover) that will dramatically revise the description of the moon 32a dead world and likely make it a more attractive destination for future human space missions.
“The moon is alive,” declared Anthony Colaprete, the chief scientist for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission, 31 used a rocket on Oct. 9 to punch a hole about 100 feet across in the moon’s surface, and then measured about 25 gallons of water in the form of vapor and ice. 31that’s not enough to swim in, it could indicate sufficient water in permanently shaded craters at the poles for future astronauts to live off the land.
NASA’s plans, currently under review by the Obama administration, call for 31 return to the moon at the end of the next decade, and 31(construct) of a lunar base in which astronauts could live and work for months at a time.
The presence of large quantities of water would make that plan more 31 (practice), since water could be used for drinking, breathing and even making rocket fuel. 31, a resource-rich moon could also serve as the perfect low-gravity launch-pad (发射台) for missions that would carry astronauts and 31 families elsewhere in the solar system, 31(realize) the dreams of generations of science-fiction writers.