【推荐1】There are many weight loss products, plans and programs in the market. However, if most of these programs were effective, we would see obesity trends reversing, yet we are witnessing more and more people struggling with weight.

Experiences of dieters regaining pre-dieting weight within 5 years are common. Therefore, a fitness program that works over a long period of time is something you should be looking for. Before reaching for your wallet or purse, make sure the program is exactly what it claims to be.

Professional endorsement(认可)

A good program should not insist on offering pills, injections, powders or similar products that are not endorsed by a medically trained professional. Your choice of programs should have been designed by a medically trained professional.

Unrealistic promises

A good program should not make unrealistic promises, such as “To lose 5 pounds in a week, with no exercise!” Therefore, it is advisable to judge whether the promises being made are realistic. The plan should also have a high success rate of weight loss.

Qualification

A weight loss program should consider the health of the applicants. It should consider their age, medical condition, gender, health background, medication and more, in order to make a plan that meets the needs of every applicant. A good program should include diet and exercise in order to promote permanent and good health.

Restriction

A good program should not overly restrictive(限制的)on food allowances. Some programs ask you not to eat foods from the main nutrient food groups like fruit and vegetables. A successful weight loss plan, for most people, should not involve less than 1,200 calories per day.

Cost effective

A long-term program does not have to cost you lots of money. An effective plan that is reasonably priced can save you a large sum of money that can be spent on other healthy habits. This car in turn improve your lifespan.

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1. The test mainly contributes to ________.

A．better understanding of good weight loss programs

B．finding the case of being overweight worldwide

C．selling more reasonably priced weight loss products

D．helping people avoid overweight by controlling diets

2. What does the underlined word “reversing” mean?

A．Increasing quickly in a short time.	B．Arranging things in the opposite order.
C．Going faster in the same direction.	D．Changing to the opposite direction.

3. What may be the purpose of the text?

A．To tell some more weight loss products.	B．To help better understand weight loss programs.
C．To help know the obesity trends.	D．To turn against weight loss products.

4. Which of the following is true according to the text?

A．Medically trained professionals usually recommend medicines on purpose.

B．No weight loss program can stop you regaining weight five years.

C．We should take in at least 1,200 calories every day to keep healthy.

D．Weight loss program always have to charge a large amount of money.

【推荐1】Happiness is for everyone. You don’t need to care about those people who have beautiful houses with large gardens and swimming pools or     1    and so on. Why? Because those who have big houses may often feel lonely and those who have cars may want to walk on the country roads at their free time.

In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it.     2    . When you study hard at your lessons, your parents are always taking good care of your life and your health. When you get success, your friends will say congratulations to you. When you do something wrong, people around you will help you to correct it.     3    All these are your happiness. If you notice a bit of them, you can see that happiness is always around you.

Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling of your heart. When you are poor, you can also say you are very happy, because you have something else that can’t be bought with money.     4    , because you have more chances to challenge yourself with those difficulties. So you cannot always say you are poor and you have bad luck. As the saying goes, life is like a revolving(旋转的)door. When it closes, it also opens.     5    .

A．When you are in trouble at school, your friends will help you

B．If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person

C．those who have nice cars and a lot of money

D．And when you do something good to others, you will feel happy, too

E．those who have no houses

F．If you meet with something frightening, you can give them up and be happy

G．When you meet with difficulties, you can say loudly you are very happy

【推荐2】Life is not always easy. One day you wake up feeling like you can take over the world, and the next day you wake up feeling like all you want to do is to lie in bed and hide from everything.

People walk into your life, grab your hand, and lead you through the most beautiful path you’ve known, but sometimes the same people let go of your hand without warning, and you become stranded at a place where you never thought you’d feel lost.

Let’s be honest, sometimes everything is going so great and it seems like nothing could go wrong, but right when you begin to think that, something so horrible comes crashing down and all of a sudden more problems come drowning around you and you just feel so hopeless because it’s so bad…

It’s so hard to understand why such things happen in life, and I personally wish I had an answer to that “why” you always ask yourself, but all I can say is no matter how hard life gets, you have to keep going. The life around you will never stop going on.

I’ll be honest and say that sometimes I feel a little bit worried and all I can think is “Will I be able to keep up? What if everything goes too fast?” But I realize that being scared and living with that burden of running away from problems only slow me down even more.

And I’ve come to the point where I believe that because life never stops, I shouldn’t stop either. It’s okay to take a break and to give yourself time to heal, but you cannot give up and you cannot quit.

Keep positive, fill your heart with gratitude for what you already have, and always remind yourself to be humble and true to who you are!

1. How does the author illustrate “Life is not always easy”?

A．By making comparisons	B．By using some famous sayings
C．By presenting his own experience	D．By listing statistics

2. According to the author, it is        to try running away from problems.

A．pointless	B．reasonable
C．helpful	D．considerate

3. Which saying can exhibit the author’s attitude towards life?

A．Save against a rainy day.

B．Constant dripping wears away the stone.

C．A good medicine tastes bitter.

D．Think it over before you leap.

【推荐3】Next time a customer comes to your office, offer him a cup of coffee. And when you’re doing your holiday shopping online, make sure you’re holding a large glass of iced tea. The physical sensation（感觉）of warmth encourages emotional warmth, while a cold drink in hand prevents you from making unwise decisions—those are the practical lesson being drawn from recent research by psychologist John A. Bargh.

Psychologists have known that one person’s perception（感知）of another’s “warmth” is a powerful determiner in social relationships. Judging someone to be either “warm” or “cold” is a primary consideration, even trumping evidence that a “cold” person may be more capable. Much of this is rooted in very early childhood experiences, Bargh argues, when babies’ conceptual sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldness. Classic studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth “mother” rather than one made of wire, even when the wire “mother” carried a food bottle. Harlow’s work and later studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skills.

Feelings of “warmth” and “coldness” in social judgments appear to be universal. Although no worldwide study has been done, Bargh says that describing people as “warm” or “cold” is common to many cultures, and studies have found those perceptions influence judgment in dozens of countries.

To test the relationship between physical and psychological warmth, Bargh conducted an experiment which involved 41 college students. A research assistant who was unaware of the study’s hypotheses（假设）, handed the students either a hot cup of coffee, or a cold drink, to hold while the researcher filled out a short information form: The drink was then handed back. After that, the students were asked to rate the personality of “Person A” based on a particular description. Those who had briefly held the warm drink regarded Person A as warmer than those who had held the iced drink.

“We are grounded in our physical experiences even when we think abstractly,” says Bargh.

1. The author mentions Harlow’s experiment to show that ______.

A．adults should develop social skills

B．babies need warm physical contact

C．caregivers should be healthy adults

D．monkeys have social relationships

2. In Bargh’s experiment, the students were asked to ______.

A．evaluate someone’s personality

B．write down their hypotheses

C．fill out a personal information form

D．hold coffee and cold drink alternatively

3. We can infer from the passage that ______.

A．abstract thinking does not come from physical experiences

B．feelings of warmth and coldness are studied worldwide

C．physical temperature affects how we see others

D．capable persons are often cold to others

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Drinking for Better Social Relationships.

B．Experiments of Personality Evaluation.

C．Developing Better Drinking Habits.

D．Physical Sensations and Emotions.