I used to overeat. I’ve never been significantly overweight, so people are surprised to hear this. When you think of overeating, you think of someone who is above their natural weight range, right? Well, I used to purposefully undereat as well. I was able to keep my weight within some control, but only through a lot of physical and mental pain.
Here’s a glimpse(一瞥)into my life as a first-year university student:
Friday: Go to a party and eat a lot of chips. Feel guilty and regretful. Vow(发誓)to wake up and run an extra mile.
Saturday: Run 6 miles, come home and only eat a tiny breakfast. Eat like a bird for the rest of the day. Feel proud of myself.
Sunday: Study and snack on chocolate chips all day. Feel sick.
Monday: Head to class with no snack and no money so that I can’t buy any food. Feel hungry but full of willpower. Go home and overeat at dinner. Feel out of control.
My feelings were changing regularly. I was proud and in control one moment, and then full of regret and out of control the next. It was exhausting.
As I studied nutrition and human anatomy(人体解剖学)in university, I started to learn just how amazing the human body is! The human body is an amazing, self-regulatory system. It knows exactly how much food it needs. When I learned this, my whole world changed. I stopped trying to manage my eating with willpower. Instead of trying to power through my hunger, I would provide my body with healthy foods, so I would feel hungry less often.
This process definitely took some work and reflection, but after a while it became second nature. Eating has become a joyful experience, instead of a source of stress and worry in my life. All my eating is now guilt-free! I shamelessly eat unhealthy snacks without regret. Of course, the majority of my food intake does come from whole, healthy foods that are close to nature.
1. What can we know about the author’s weekly life as a freshman?| A．Run extra mile on Friday. |
| B．Only eat breakfast on Saturday. |
| C．Eating nothing but chips on Sunday. |
| D．Eat nothing with willpower on Monday. |
| A．She exercised in order to lose weight. |
| B．She began to listen to her body’s needs. |
| C．She stopped eating unhealthy food. |
| D．She started to go on a diet. |
| A．Have a balanced diet |
| B．Control your weight |
| C．Enjoy snacks without guilt |
| D．Eating can be a pleasant thing |
| A．By giving instructions. |
| B．By explaininga process. |
| C．By discussing research findings. |
| D．By sharing a personal experience. |
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【推荐1】Foods to Eat to Burn More Calories
WATERMELON
Watermelon is brimming with B vitamins which boost your energy levels and curb your need to munch on an extra snack. A cup of diced watermelon contains 46 calories and virtually no fat. Watermelon is a rich source of potassium, dietary fiber, protein, vitamin A, magnesium, vitamin C, and iron.
Watermelon is one of powerful foods to eat to burn more calories. Watermelon is also high in lycopene, the antioxidant that lower your risk of macular degeneration, heart disease, and cancer. With 90 percent water, watermelon is filling you up, but are not filling you out. Enjoy fresh watermelon juice, smoothie, or use it any summer fruit salad you like.
GRAPEFRUIT
Grapefruits speed up your metabolism and help burn a lot of calories. This fruit will help feel full faster and longer. According to the U. S. Department of Agriculture National Nutrient Database, one half of a grapefruit contains around 53 calories. Moreover, grapefruit is rich in fiber that may help stabilize your blood glucose levels. You can add grapefruit to your fruit salad, smoothies or drink a grapefruit juice.
CELERY
The secret of celery is very simple: it contains less calories and helps burn more than you eat. Celery mostly consists of water and that’s why it is good as a part of a balanced diet.
However, this food is not suitable for celery diet only as your body won’t get the necessary minerals and nutrients. So the best decision will be to combine it with some other foods.
WHOLE GRAINS
Studies show that whole grains are healthier than refined grains and that they lower the risk of getting a chronic disease. This type of grains is also a good part of a diet as it takes more time to digest and you won’t get hungry for a longer period of time. Whole grains are rich in various vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates but low in fat.
GREEN TEA
Rich in antioxidants green tea boosts your metabolism and helps lose weight, which is just fantastic for ladies, isn’t it? Simply enjoy a cup of hot fragrant green tea and do a great favor to your body.
1. To balance blood glucose levels, you’d better take in ________ regularly.| A．green tea | B．whole grains | C．watermelon | D．grapefruit |
| A．grapefruit contains more calories than watermelon. |
| B．whole grains are healthier because they contain more water and various minerals. |
| C．having celery diet before a cup of green tea can help get enough nutrients to lose weight. |
| D．both grapefruit and green tea can help speed up metabolism for those who are eager to lose weight. |
| A．Business. | B．Medicine. | C．Health. | D．Learning Kit. |
【推荐2】Although most diets vary according to what foods you can eat, they all follow the same principle of restriction to lose weight—you need to eat less. The now-trendy diet of intuitive eating is, in a sense, an anti-diet: followers are encouraged to base what they eat on how they feel, not on prescribed limits or calorie counts.
The concept was first proposed in the mid-90s by registered dietitians Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole, who wrote Intuitive Eating. The first step is to reject the idea that you need to be on a diet to be healthy. You’re encouraged to also give yourself “permission” to eat all foods, to reject the idea of “good” and “bad” foods and to accept your natural body shape. Finally, you help make your body healthier by adding exercise, finding better ways than food to relieve your emotions and slowly shifting to more nutritious food choices.
One of the biggest misunderstandings around intuitive eating is that nutrition goes out the window. Curiously, researches shows that in a traditional diet, caloric restriction is usually followed by a binge(放纵), where the body’s primary drive to make sure it gets enough calories is more important than any desires for nutrition or moderation(自我节制), which leads to disordered eating patterns. However, because intuitive eating allows all foods on the table, practitioners can make small, slow changes that ultimately are more long-lasting-toward eating more nutritionally.
There isn’t strong research to back up claims that intuitive eating helps with losing weight or eating more-nutritious food. However, in Keller’s experience, a registered dietitian in Calgary, intuitive eating can help with overall weight maintenance. In addition, intuitive eaters do gain a healthier attitude toward food, compared to traditional dieters. Keller says, “When people decide to diet, what they actually want is to feel comfortable and confident and healthy in their own body. People have to be ready to overcome their constant desire to lose weight and control their body, and to realize that changing how they look on the outside isn’t going to change those things on the inside. ”
1. What do we know about intuitive eating?| A．It helps followers to lose weight by eating less. |
| B．It prohibits followers from eating what they like. |
| C．It encourages eaters to be on a diet to be healthy. |
| D．It advises eaters to be healthier by exercising more. |
| A．Exports. | B．Disappears. |
| C．Destroys. | D．Distributes. |
| A．Favorable. | B．Intolerant. |
| C．Doubtful. | D．Unclear. |
| A．Does intuitive eating beat a conventional diet? |
| B．How does intuitive eating work? |
| C．Will intuitive eating help lose more weight? |
| D．Should we bother to lose weight? |
【推荐3】The study led by Myrskyla,director of the Max Planck Institute in Germany was the first to analyze the accumulative effect of several key health behaviors on disability-free and total life expectancy.Previous studies have looked at single health behaviors.Myrskyla and colleagues instead examined several behaviors simultaneously（同时）,which allowed them to determine how long and healthy the lives of people who had avoided most of the well-known individual behavioral risk factors were.
The researchers noted that each of the three unhealthy behaviors—obesity,smoking,and unhealthy consumption of alcohol—was linked to a reduction in life expectancy and to an earlier occurrence of disabilities.However, smoking was found to be associated with an early death but not with an increase in the number of years with disability,while obesity led to a long period of time with disability.Excessive alcohol consumption was found to cause both decreased lifespan（寿命）and a reduced number of healthy years.However,the absence of all of these risky healthy behaviors was found to be associated with the greatest number of healthy years.
The most striking finding was the discovery of a large difference in average lifespan between the groups who were the most and the least at risk.Men who were not overweight,had never smoked,and drank properly were found to live an average of 11 years longer than men who were overweight,had smoked,and drank excessively.For women, the gap between these two groups was found to be even greater,at 12 years.
“Our results show how important it is to focus on prevention.Those who avoid risky health behaviors are achieving very long and healthy lives,”said Myrskyla.It's not without reason that we are told repeatedly to switch to a healthy lifestyle,which can prevent you from various illnesses as well as keep you young and active. "Improvements in medical technology are often thought to be the gatekeeper to healthier,longer life.But we showed that a healthy lifestyle,is enough to enable individuals to enjoy a very long and healthy life,"said Myrskyla."A healthy lifestyle is enough to get the benefits.Avoiding those behaviors is not an unrealistic goal."
1. Myrskyla's study is different from previous ones in that .| A．it concentrates on how individual behaviors affect our health |
| B．it is conducted by a team of professional researchers |
| C．it analyzes the combined effects of some unhealthy behaviors |
| D．it assesses the risk of unhealthy behaviors on decreased lifespan |
| A．obesity is closely connected with an early death |
| B．smoking leads to along period of time with disability |
| C．overdrinking contributes to the reduction in lifespan |
| D．no striking differences exist between the two groups of women |
| A．Health Improvement: Adoption of a Balanced Diet |
| B．Health Care: Not a Privilege but a Right |
| C．Absence of Smoking: Simplest Way to Keep Healthy |
| D．Lifestyle Changes: Extra Years in Good Health |
【推荐1】Soft cries came from the back seat about halfway through road trip home. Allison heard her 2-year-old daughter’s voice asking: “Ruff? Ruff?” She suddenly realized her daughter’s favorite toy dog, Ruff, had been left behind at the Doubletree, a hotel in the capital. Allison said she felt terrible about forgetting her daughter Juniper’s comfort companion. As soon as the family unloaded the car that night, she called the hotel and learned that Ruff was in the lost-and-found and would be mailed to them in a day or two.
Three days later, a box arrived at the Allison’s home addressed to Juniper. Inside, next to Ruff, she found a tin of cookies, a note and some photos, which showed how Juniper’s toy dog had spent her solo vacation at the Doubletree. “Dear Juniper,” the note read, “thanks for letting us borrow Ruff for a day! Don’t worry, she didn’t work hard and we gave her plenty of playtime! Hope you and Ruff visit us again soon! Love, Doubletree Team.” The funny photos were taken by front-desk clerk Maria. The photos showed her talking on the phone, using a computer, hanging out at the hotel swimming pool and sleeping in the middle of a king-size bed.
“Juniper couldn’t stop laughing as she looked at the photos,” said Allison, who runs a photography business. “The love and care they put into doing this is unbelievable. A lot of times, when kids lose their toys or toy animals at a hotel, they might never see them again.”
She decided to write a post about the hotel’s kind deed on the Internet. She included photos she had taken of Juniper after she was reunited with her dog. “I wanted to do something to cheer people up during the pandemic (疫情), and it seems to have worked,” she said. “People started sharing it almost immediately.”
1. When did Allison find Ruff missing?| A．Half way to the hotel. | B．On the way home. |
| C．When she called the Doubletree. | D．After she unloaded the car. |
| A．Juniper. | B．Allison. | C．Maria. | D．Ruff. |
| A．To thank the clerk at the Doubletree. |
| B．To advertise her photography business. |
| C．To make people happy during the pandemic. |
| D．To share the photos of Juniper with the toy dog. |
| A．A Lost Toy Dog | B．A Warm-hearted Clerk |
| C．An Unbelievable Post | D．A Careless Mother |
【推荐2】Jennifer Rocha, who graduated from UC San Diego, said she wanted to thank her parents for their support by taking graduation photos in the fields where she worked alongside them since high school. “I wanted to take those pictures out there, specifically in the field, because that’s what made me go to college,” Rocha said. “That was my dad’s lesson of saying: if you don’t pursue a higher education, you’re going to be working here the rest of your life.” Rocha said her parents encouraged her and her siblings to pursue a higher education.
She started working in the fields with her parents when she was a junior in high school. Each day, she would leave cross country practice to go home and work planting strawberries overnight. “It was tough labor,” Rocha said as she remembered working late nights in the fields. “I was like, ‘You know what? I don’t want to be doing this my whole life.’”
Completing the past four years of college was not always an easy feat for Rocha. While being a full-time student, she also worked at the university’s police department to help pay for her tuition. She worked long hours to fund her education. At times, her work shifts wouldn’t end until 4 or 5 am, leaving only a few hours to spare before the next class. “I have class at like 8 am, and it’s not worth me driving and then coming back,” Rocha said. “So, I would just nap in my car and then go to class after that. It was tough times, but I mean,we got that diploma.”
Rocha hopes her photos and her story will be an inspiration to immigrant families. She said it was important to include her parents in her graduation photos. “I wanted to not just honor them but honor all the migrant skilled workers, because a lot of times they aren’t recognized and we forget about them. My parents being migrant workers were able to have three girls get their college education, and you can do it, too, and your kids can,” she said.
1. Why did Rocha take graduation photos in the field?| A．To thank her parents for their hard work. | B．To memorize her help with parents in fields. |
| C．To show her preference for field work. | D．To show her success in ending field labor. |
| A．Get a higher agriculture education. | B．Stay away from working in fields. |
| C．Devote her whole life to fields. | D．Become a learned field worker. |
| A．Exciting. | B．Boring. | C．Carefree. | D．Difficult. |
| A．To stress the importance of education. | B．To remind others of labor’s value. |
| C．To inspire others to pursue education. | D．To win awards at graduation. |
【推荐3】Blameless
I was a freshman in college when I met the Whites. They were completely different from my own family, yet I felt at home with them immediately. Jane White and I became friends at school, and her family welcomed me like a long-lost cousin.
In my family, it was always important to place blame when anything bad happened.
“Who did this?” my mother would scream about a dirty kitchen.
“This is all your fault, Katharine,” my father would insist when the cat got out or the dishwasher broke.
From the time we were little, my sister, brothers and I told on each other. We set a place for blame at the dinner table.
But the Whites didn’t worry about who had done what. They picked up the pieces and moved on with their lives. The beauty of this was driven home to me the summer Jane died.
In July, the White sisters and I decided to take a car trip from their home in Florida to New York. The two older sisters, Sarah and Jane, were college students, and the youngest, Amy, had recently turned sixteen. Proud of having a new driver’s license，Amy was excited about practicing her driving on the trip. She showed off her license to everyone she met.
The big sisters shared the driving of Sarah’s new car during the first part of the trip, but when they reached less crowded areas, they let Amy take over. Somewhere in South Carolina, we pulled off the highway to eat. After lunch, Amy got behind the wheel. She came to a crossroads with a stop sign. Whether she was nervous or just didn’t see the sign no one would ever know, but Amy continued into the crossroads without stopping. The driver of a large truck, unable to stop in time, ran into our car.
Jane was killed immediately.
I was slightly injured. The most difficult thing that I’ve ever done was to call the Whites to tell them about the accident and that Jane had died. Painful as it was for me to lose a good friend, I knew that it was far worse for them to lose a child.
When Mr. and Mrs. White arrived at the hospital, they found their two daughters sharing a room. Sarah had a few cuts on the head; Amy’s leg was broken. They hugged us all and cried tears of sadness and of joy at seeing their daughters. They wiped away the girls’ tears and made a few jokes at Amy as she learned to use her crutches（拐杖）.
To both of their daughters, and especially to Amy, over and over they simply said, “We’re so glad that you’re alive.”
I was astonished. No blame. No accusations.
Later, I asked the Whites why they never talked about the fact that Amy was driving and had run a stop sign.
Mrs. White said, “Jane’s gone, and we miss her terribly. Nothing we say or do will ever bring her back. But Amy has her whole life ahead of her. How can she lead a full and happy life if she feels we blame her for her sister’s death? ”
They were right. Amy graduated from the University of California and got married several years ago. She works as a teacher of learning-disabled students. She’s also a mother of two little girls of her own, the oldest named Jane.
1. The author of the passage is _____.| A．Mrs. White’s niece |
| B．Jane’s school friend |
| C．The Whites’ cousin |
| D．Sarah’s friend from college |
| A．The author’s parents were less caring. |
| B．The author’s parents were less loving. |
| C．The author’s parents were less friendly. |
| D．The author’s parents were less understanding. |
| A．Amy didn’t stop at a crossroads and a truck hit their car. |
| B．Amy didn’t know what to do when she saw the stop sign. |
| C．Amy didn’t slow down so their car ran into a truck. |
| D．Amy didn’t get off the highway at a crossroads. |
| A．Florida |
| B．California |
| C．South Carolina |
| D．New York |
| A．they didn’t want Amy to feel ashamed and sorry for the rest of her life |
| B．Amy was badly injured herself and they didn’t want to add to her pain |
| C．they didn’t want to blame their children in front of others |
| D．Amy was their youngest daughter and they loved her best |
| A．Amy has never recovered from the shock |
| B．Amy changed her job after the accident |
| C．Amy lost her memory after the accident |
| D．Amy has lived quite a normal life |
【推荐1】I ask every student applying for Pitzer College the same question, “What do you look forward to the most in college?” I was surprised and delighted when a student replied, “The possibility of failure.” Of course, this is not how most students respond to the question when sitting before the person who can make decisions about their academic futures, but this young man took a risk. “You see, my parents have never let me fail,” he said. “When I want to take a chance at something, they remind me it’s not a safe route to take. They tell me taking a more rigorous course or trying an activity I may not succeed in will ruin my chances at college admission. Even staying up late to do something that isn’t related to school, they see it as a risk to my academic work and college success.”
Kids all over the world admit they are under huge pressure to be perfect. So students are usually in shock when I tell them I never expect perfection. How could a leader of admission at one of America’s most selective colleges not want the best and the brightest? The reality is that perfection doesn’t exist.
I’ve known teenagers will never be perfect. They do silly things, fall down, and lack confidence. The ability to bounce back is a fundamental life skill students have to learn on their own. The lessons of failure can’t be taught in a classroom. During my weekend of interviews, another student told me, “I’m ashamed to admit I failed calculus (微积分), but I decided to take it again and got a B-plus. I will still take calculus, and even though I don’t love it, I’m glad I pushed through!” I asked him what he learned from the experience. “I learned to let go of shame,” he said. “I realized that I can’t let a grade define (定义) my success. I also learned that if you want anything eagerly, you can achieve it.”
I smiled as I wrote his words down on the application-review form. Apparently, he has the coping skills to adjust to college life. Failure is about growth, learning, overcoming and moving on. Let’s allow young people to fail. Not only will they learn something, it might even get them into college!
1. What does the underlined word “rigorous” in the first paragraph mean?| A．Absurd. | B．Lively. | C．Challenging. | D．Special. |
| A．Teachers can help students to admit failure. |
| B．Parents define their children’s success by grades. |
| C．Teenagers get lessons of failure through experiences. |
| D．Young people spend enough time letting go of shame. |
| A．The college teachers would love the student for his perfection. |
| B．He succeeded in persuading the student to enter college. |
| C．The student realized his dream of being a perfect person. |
| D．He thought the student would have a promising future. |
| A．Learn to Fail | B．Learn to Live |
| C．Try to Succeed | D．Decide to Experience |
【推荐2】The way to a man's heart trough his stomach. This is what Chin offed me he moment my feet touched its ground. As someone who loves food, I couldn’t help worrying about eating food which is foreign to my tongue. I love my country’s food. Being far away from home for the first time, finding good food was my priority.
Clearly, the beginning of every journey can be rough. My experience at Chinese restaurants left a lot to be desired. I had yet to explore Nanjing and I would often eat at cafeterias around my university. My first date with Chinese food was not a happy experience. I thought it did not suit my taste.
However, one day my Chinese classmates took me to a Chinese restaurant near our university. It looked like a place for special occasions or family gatherings of some sort. My classmates then called the waiter to take our orders.
One dish after another arrived until the table was full. It was the first time I had witnessed such a meal, with more than 10 dishes on the table. Because of my past experience of Chinese food, I was quite hesitant(犹豫的) about trying all the dishes. I thought that I should only pick what I could eat. But one of my classmates sitting next to me convinced me to give each of the dishes a try. I tasted them one by one and my whole concept of Chinese food changed after that. Each dish appealed to my taste, and I forgot to slow down.
It cannot be denied that food is one main source of our happiness and it is indeed our thirst for survival. China won my heart when the food got through my stomach.
1. What does the underlined word in paragraph 1 probably mean?| A．The impossible task. | B．The easiest decision. |
| C．The most important thing. | D．The unwilling choice. |
| A．He couldn’t decide which to eat first. |
| B．He did not know Chinese table manners. |
| C．He was not hungry enough to cat so much. |
| D．He was affected by his first impression of Chinese food. |
| A．It is foreign to his tongue. | B．I as a very pleasant taste. |
| C．It needs to be more creative. | D．It tastes better than other countries’. |
| A．Be Brave to Try New Food |
| B．My First Date with Chinese Food |
| C．My Journey to Search for Foreign Food |
| D．Love Chinese Food, Love China |
Sometimes, life gives you the gift of a moment that changes everything. For me, that came on a plane home in January, 2009. As a lawyer, I specialized in corporate law in oil and gas projects. Actually, I’d grown to hate my job. It involved too much paperwork and a lot of traveling, which was really exhausting for me.
Becoming a lawyer was unintended. I loved my school but it was competitive and students were destined for a good university, and then a graduate plan. That was the track I was on. After graduation, I became a lawyer, but that just made me trapped. I wanted to make a difference, but I had no idea what else I could do.
On that life-changing flight, I asked a stewardess to bring me a hot drink. When she returned, I couldn’t help crying. Hugging me, she said, “I don’t know what’s wrong but if you’re crying in business class, you need to change your life.”
Those words had a great effect on me. I couldn’t carry on in a job that made me so uncomfortable.
After much reflection, I resigned 18 months later. The last time I’d been happy was when I was volunteering at a school. Because of that, my friend Sophia kept telling me I’d love teaching. Then I contacted four schools and became a teacher in the end. No amount of planning would have prepared me for my first day as a teacher. It was stressful, but as I became familiar with the curriculum, I relaxed.
Five years on, I’m head of department. Watching my students develop is so rewarding and results day makes me burst with pride. I used to feel scared about the thought of becoming a more senior lawyer, but I’m so positive about the opportunities teaching can offer. I earn less now but I become richer in many ways.
Every single day, I feel excited to go to work.
1. Why did the author hate her job as a lawyer? (no more than 15 words)2. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean? (no more than 3 words)
3. What made the author decide to become a teacher? (no more than 10 words)
4. How does the author’s life change after being a teacher? (no more than 10 words)
5. What kind of job will you choose after graduation? Please explain. (no more than 20 words)
