文章大意：这是一篇说明文。介绍了现代社会父母对万圣节心生畏惧，因为孩子可能在这期间吃过多的糖，他们认为这对健康有害。而专家缺不这样认为，他们建议让孩子在万圣节吃一些糖能让孩子们开心，但父母同时也应该给孩子提供健康平衡的饮食。
2 . Limiting your child’s candy this Halloween might be more of a trick than a treat, experts say. Once you’re a grown-up raising kids, that bag full of candy might be the scariest part of Halloween — whether it’s concern about a potential sugar rush, worries of parenting perfectionism or diet culture anxiety.
“It makes sense to be scared, because we’ve been taught to be scared,” said Oona Hanson, a parent coach based in Los Angeles. “Sugar is sort of the boogeyman in our current cultural conversation.”
But micromanaging your child’s candy supply can backfire (适得其反)，leading to an overvaluing of sweets，binge (暴食) behavior or unhealthy restriction in your child，said Natalie Mokari, a registered dietitian-nutritionist in Charlotte, North Carolina.
As stressful as it may be to see your child faced with more candy in one night than they would eat in an entire year, the best approach may be to lean into the joy, she added. “They are only in that age where they want to trick or treat for just a small glimpse of time — it’s so short-lived,” Mokari said. “Let them enjoy that day.”
Experts aren’t suggesting kids have sugar all day every day. The American Heart Association and the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee — groups charged with providing science-based recommendations every live years — have recommended lower daily levels of sugar. Too much added sugar has been associated with cardiovascular disease and lack of essential nutrients.
But a healthy relationship with food has balance, and you can keep your kids’ diets full of nutrients while allowing them lo eat sweets, Mokari said.
1. Why are the grown-ups raising kids scared at Halloween?
| A．Because they don’t look perfect enough. |
| B．Because their children faced too much candy. |
| C．Because they’ve been taught to be. |
| D．Because they don’t know the diet culture. |
2. Which of the following best explains “Sugar is sort of the boogeyman” underlined in Paragraph 2?
| A．Sugar can make us scared. |
| B．Sugar is a sort of healthy food. |
| C．Sugar is harmful to our health. |
| D．Sugar is a sort of essential nutrient. |
3. Which of the following statements will Natalie Mokari probably agree with?
| A．Kids should have sugar all day every day. |
| B．It makes sense to be scared with that bag full of candy. |
| C．It’s a good idea to micromanage your child’s candy supply. |
| D．Kids would have much joy when treated to candy at Halloween. |
4. What are the last two paragraphs mainly about?
| A．Diseases associated with sugar. |
| B．The right attitude towards sugar. |
| C．Allowing your kids to eat sweets. |
| D．Keeping your kids’ diets full of nutrients. |
