2 . A woman, Li Li, aged 25 in China, recently decided to have an operation to reduce the size of her stomach. She had begun to take weight-loss pills seven years before but had put on 100 pounds instead of losing weight.
Li Li bought some weight-loss pills after seeing a (n) _________ on TV. She weighed around 100 pounds at that time. However, she felt like she needed to lose a bit of weight. If some _________ could help her do that, then why not? The young woman said that the experiences were _________ at first, but as soon as she stopped taking the pills, she not only put on all the weight she had _________, but added a few extra as well. Little did she know that this was the _________ of a vicious (恶性的) cycle that would see her spend around 200,000 yum on weight-loss pills, only to have her weight double.
Li Li’s _________ was recently published by Chengdu Business Daily. She arrived at the Chengdu Peopled Hospital and told the doctors there that she had _________ for seven years. But to her disappointment, there was nothing positive to show for it, so the operation was her only _________.
The woman said that after her first experience with weight-loss pills, she _________ going online and searching for other pills and weight-loss plans. But the results were always the same. She couldn’t even __________ all the different drugs she had taken in the past seven years, but what she did know was that none of them worked as advertised. Yes, some pills __________ helped her lose 29 pounds a month, but as soon as she stopped taking them, she soon came back to her previous weight and even __________ more weight.
Li Li said she wanted to remind people not to __________ advertising which was different from reality when it came to weight loss products, because she was a clear __________ of that. Losing weight is a long-term process, no matter how __________ the advertising for weight-loss pills is.
1. A.program | B.advertisement | C.report | D.project |
2. A.doctors | B.arguments | C.suggestions | D.pills |
3. A.disappointing | B.encouraging | C.horrible | D.awkward |
4. A.hidden | B.sold | C.lost | D.missed |
5. A.beginning | B.middle | C.ending | D.reason |
6. A.contribution | B.background | C.pity | D.story |
7. A.travelled | B.struggled | C.thought | D.continued |
8. A.activity | B.cause | C.opinion | D.choice |
9. A.kept | B.forgot | C.advised | D.meant |
10. A.find | B.share | C.remember | D.believe |
11. A.simply | B.finally | C.actually | D.partly |
12. A.added | B.paid | C.reduced | D.changed |
13. A.live up to | B.count on | C.take pride in | D.show off |
14. A.way | B.goal | C.opportunity | D.example |
15. A.cheap | B.boring | C.attractive | D.expensive |