1 . A spoonful of pickles (泡菜) can sometimes make a meal taste way better. Recently, a new kind of pickle, digital (电子的) pickled vegetables, is being discussed. It refers to the videos people watch while eating that make their food more delicious.
The topic received more than 16 million clicks on Sina Weibo and about 100,000 people joined in the discussion. Instead of being accompanied (陪伴) by friends and family during a meal, many young people in China are watching short videos while eating. Many believe that their food is more delicious with the “digital pickles.”
Can this habit affect your diet? According to research in 2019, you may eat more! The research team conducted the first test. They asked 62 volunteers to follow different eating patterns(模式) on four different days. The patterns included eating while looking at the mobile phone, reading magazines, and without distraction (干扰).
After the test, the team discovered that eating with a distraction increased the amount of food that people take in by about 15 percent.
To explore (探究) the reason, the team conducted another test. They invited two groups of people: one group ate while listening to an audio clip about another person eating, and the other listened to a clip (片段) that helped them imagine themselves eating. The results showed that the second group ate less because they paid more attention to their meals. When eating with the "digital pickles," our attention can be distracted(分歧), which leads to eating more than expected.
The study suggests that if you’re eating or drinking while your attention is distracted by a highly engaging(投入的) task, you’re less likely to be able to tell how full you feel.
1. According to the passage, a new kind of pickle is ___________.
| A．a kind of vegetable grown by farmers | B．the videos people watch while eating |
| C．a kind of food that is popular online | D．the computer games played by children |
2. How did the research team find out the truth?
| A．Through two tests with different people. | B．By starting the discussion online. |
| C．With the help of some Chinese volunteers. | D．From people's changes of weight |
3. If people who like to cat with digital pickled vegetables want to eat less than before, they’d better _________.
| A．eat different food with digital pickled vegetables |
| B．eat without listening to or watching anything |
| C．eat while reading a colorful food magazine |
| D．eat while listening to an audio clip about others eating |
4. The best structure of the passage may be __________.
(①=Paragraph 1,
②=Paragraph 2,
③=Paragraph 3...)
