1 . In the busy and fast-paced world we live in today, keeping a healthy eating routine within changing schedules and various family preferences can seem like an huge challenge. Below are some tips to help establish a balanced and healthy approach to eating in today’s family life.

Embrace mindful eating.

Mindfulness transforms eating into a nurturing (养育) practice, encouraging a deep connect ion with how food affects your body and mood. When you eat, take the time to really notice your food — eat slowly and without distractions.     1     It also leads to more fulfilling and healthful eating experiences, regardless of what is going on around you.

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Consider establishing guidelines that encourage eating without distractions such as TVs, phones or other electronic devices. These guidelines will help everyone at the table to fully engage with their food and with each other. This practice not only promote the enjoyment of meals but also support healthier eating habits by focusing attention on the meal and the company, enriching the shared experience.

Establish a flexible meal routine.

Finding a common mealtime can be challenging due to varying schedules.     3     If you’re hungry earlier, empower (授权) yourself to eat when you feel the need. There’s beauty in flexibility; you can still share quality time with loved ones by sitting together at the table when they eat, even if you’re not eating yourself.     4     It’s about finding balance between personal nutrition needs and family well-being.

Nurture a supportive food environment.

Creating an environment that celebrates healthy eating involves everyone in the household. Discuss preferences openly and plan meals that are inclusive, ensuring that each person feels valued. Shared meal preparation becomes a moment for bonding and respect for individual health goals.     5    

A．Have mealtime house rules.

B．Schedule mealtime into daily routine.

C．It’s important to honour your own hunger signals.

D．This attentiveness develops a deep respect for your body’s needs.

E．By involving everyone, meals become a reflection of collective care and respect.

F．It’s important to be flexible and respectful of each family member’s eating preferences.

G．This approach respects your body’s needs while maintaining the joy of eating together.

2 . Consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) has increased over the past 20 years. UPFs contain few or no whole foods, are industrially produced, are ready-to-eat or ready-to-heat, and include additives. The ultra-processing of food lessens its nutritional value. It has been known that higher UPF consumption is associated with overweight and heart disease. Now, research has been extended to examine its impact on mental health.

In a new study, over 72,000 participants who were at least 55 years old and didn’t have dementia (痴呆) at the start of the study were followed for an average of 10 years, during which they filled out questionnaires regarding their diet. By the end of the study, 518 people were diagnosed (诊断) with dementia. After adjusting for other factors that could affect risk of dementia such as age, gender, and heart disease, researchers found every 10 percent increase in daily intake of UPFs was associated with a 25 percent higher risk of dementia. They also found replacing 10 percent of UPFs with unprocessed or minimally processed foods was associated with a 19 percent lower risk of dementia.

In another study, researchers found individuals who consumed the most UPFs had statistically significant increases in the symptoms (症状) of mild depression, “mentally unhealthy days”, and “anxious days”. Eric Hecht, Founder and Executive Director of the Institute of Etiological Research, said, “More than 70 percent of packaged foods in the US are classified as UPFs and represent about 60 percent of all calories consumed by Americans. Given the degree of exposure to and effects of UPF consumption, this study has great significance in clinical practice and public health. It might help improve future development of dietary guidelines.”

Facing such alarming data, maybe it’s time for Americans to reconsider their food options. Researchers recommend taxes on UPFs and carrying out policies to reduce the consumption. They also support programs and policies to increase the availability and affordability of whole foods, especially among disadvantaged populations.

1. What do we know about UPFs?

A．They have no nutritional value.	B．They are ready-made and instant foods.
C．They are cheap and mass-produced.	D．They serve as additions to our daily diets.

2. What’s Eric Hecht’s attitude toward the new study?

A．Positive.

B．Doubtful.

C．Mixed.

D．Conservative.

3. What do researchers suggest doing?

A．Collecting higher taxes on UPFs.	B．Decreasing UPFs’ share in diet.
C．Focusing on the nutrient content of foods.	D．Increasing public awareness of whole foods.

4. Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Public Health Response to UPFs	B．Physical Disorders Linked to UPFs
C．Rising Consumption of UPFs in the US	D．Negative Effects of UPFs on Mental Health

3 . By now we all know the importance of drinking enough water throughout the day, but there is such a thing as too much. Earlier this summer, a 35-year-old Indiana woman, died from water toxicity(毒性作用) after drinking too much water in a short period of time, according to a local news report.

While drinking enough water is important, overdoing it can lead to low levels of sodium(钠) in the blood, which can be life-threatening, according to Julia Zumpano, an expert at Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Human Nutrition.

Exactly how much is enough for our body depends on a variety of factors, including our weight, age, location and overall health. People in poor health, or active people such as athletes, are at risk of water toxicity, as they tend to drink large amounts of water and lose sodium through their sweat. So are women and children because of their smaller body size.

While the gold standard for many years has been eight glasses of 8 ounces(盎司) of water per day, the National Academy of Medicine suggests enough water intake is about 125 ounces for men and about 91 ounces for women. And it recommends not drinking more than 48 ounces of water per hour. This includes total water from fruits, vegetables and other drinks besides water.

If you struggle with getting enough water per day, you can try water bottles to help track your water intake. Eating fruits and vegetables can also increase our water intake. You could experiment with adding flavor to improve the taste of your water.

“Most people had better keep drinking water throughout the day, but larger amounts may be needed in the heat for an extended period of time or during exercise. If you are thirsty water—listen to your body. But don’t overdo it,” says Zumpano.

1. How does the author introduce the topic of the text?

A．By giving an example.	B．By showing the findings.
C．By making a comparison.	D．By putting up a question.

2. What effect may drinking too much water have on us?

A．Putting on weight.	B．Speeding up aging.
C．Cutting sodium in blood.	D．Making us more active.

3. What do we know from paragraph 4?

A．We must drink less than 48 ounces of water a day.

B．Women can take in more water than men an hour.

C．We can take in little water from fruits and vegetables.

D．We’d better drink about 64 ounces of water every day.

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A．What is the result of water toxicity?

B．How much water is too much water?

C．Why do you find it difficult to drink enough water?

D．How often need we remind ourselves to drink water?

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Recently, “premade food (预制菜) in schools ”     1     (lead) to extensive debates. A shift from restaurant to family dining tables in     2     past two years, has rapidly brought premade food to the mass consumer market.

The issue initially surfaced when videos were posted by several parents of primary and secondary school students in Jiangxi     3     (express) their concerns about the slow delivery and poor quality of the meals     4     (provide) by the local central kitchen to students. Parents were worried that the meal distribution from the central kitchen might include premade food.     5     some parents began questioning was the source of school meals. They were anxious about it, a few of     6     even brought their children’s lunches to the school gates. The doubts have also raised concerns about the     7     (reliable) of meal distribution by central kitchens in primary and secondary schools.     8     (consequent), many people are appealing     9     schools to return to running their own cafeterias.

Some parents express their opposition to premade food in schools and firmly suggest that children     10     (guarantee) freshly cooked and reliable lunches. Ju Shang, the deputy secretary of Jiangsu Province Consumer Council. emphasized that elementary and middle school students have the same rights to be informed and make choices.

5 . Good news, coffee lovers: Your daily cup of Joe might be doing good to your heart, namely by helping to reduce the risk of heart failure, suggest the findings of a new study. In an analysis of data from three large studies on the topic, researchers found that those who reported drinking one or more cups of caffeinated (含咖徘因的) coffee a day had “a related decreased long-term heart failure risk”.

For the report published in Circulation: Heart Failure, researchers used machine learning to examine data from a large study from the Framingham Heart Study, referencing this data against two other studies. “Each study included at least 10 years of follow-up, and altogether the studies provided information on more than 21,000 U.S. adult participants,” researchers said.

When analyzing the Framingham Heart Study, researchers noted that when compared to non-coffee drinkers, coffee drinkers’ risk of heart failure decreased by 5% to 12% for each cup they drank each day. As for decaffeinated coffee, researchers noted that it did, not have the same benefits as caffeinated coffee, with one study suggesting that decaffeinated coffee may have an opposite effect.

Dr. David Kao, senior study author, said in a statement, “The relation between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was surprising. Coffee and caffeine are often considered by the general population to be ‘bad’ for the heart because people relate them to health problems like palpitations, high blood pressure, etc. The relationship between increasing caffeine consumption and decreasing heart failure risk turns that thought on its head.”

“However, there is not yet enough clear evidence to prove that increasing coffee consumption can decrease the risk of heart disease with the same strength and certainty as stopping smoking, losing weight, or exercising,” Kao noted. The researchers also warned that the findings only focused on black coffee, that is, plain coffee, without added sugar and high-fat dairy products such as cream.

1. What’s the finding of the new study?

A．The number of heart failure cases has decreased gradually.

B．Coffee can help lower the possibility of heart failure.

C．Caffeine does harm to people’s health.

D．Coffee helps cure heart disease.

2. How did researchers achieve their finding?

A．By searching online for detailed information.

B．By interviewing experts about their opinions.

C．By conducting surveys among young adults.

D．By comparing data from long-term studies.

3. What can directly affect the result of the study?

A．The brand of coffee.

B．The age of the subjects.

C．The addition of caffeine to coffee.

D．The amount of coffee consumption.

4. What is Dr. Kao’s attitude towards the result?

A．Indifferent.

B．Positive.

C．Curious.

D．Careful.

6 . The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has to recall hundreds of foods every year. Like cookie snack packs with pieces of blue plastic hiding inside, dressing and sauce containing salmonella (沙门氏菌) or various jams containing with lead (铅).

It can take a few months before a recall is issued. But now researchers have come up with a method that might fast-track that process, leading to early detection and, ultimately, faster recalls. The AI system relies on the fact that people increasingly buy foods and spices online. And people tend to write reviews of products they buy online, which are like bread crumbs (包屑) to food-safety officials sniffing (嗅) out dangerous products.

The researchers linked FDA food recalls from 2012 to 2014 to amazon reviews of those same products. They then trained machine-learning algorithms (算法) to distinguish between reviews for recalled items and reviews for items that had not been flagged. And the trained algorithms were able to predict FDA recalls three quarters of the time. They also identified another 20, 000 reviews for possibly unsafe foods, most of which had never been recalled. The results are published in Journal of the American Medical In formatics Association.

The World Health Organization estimates that 600 million people worldwide get sick annually from polluted food, and more than 400,000 people die from it. “Sohaving tools that enable us to detect this a lot faster and hopefully investigate and do recalls faster will be useful not just in the U. S. but in other countries around the world as well.” Study author Elaine Nsoesie of Boston University. She did add one warning even recalled products can still get five-star reviews. So stars alone don’t tell the whole sickening story. The proof unfortunately, may still be in the pudding.

1. What will help Fda recall unsafe foods faster than before?

A．Efforts of food-safety officials

B．Lots of online reviews of products

C．New measures of food-safety officials.

D．Online reviews of the polluted foods

2. How does the author introduce the process of the research?

A．By describing facts.	B．By giving examples
C．By analyzing data.	D．By making comparisons.

3. What’s elaine’s attitude towards five-star reviews?

A．Tolerant

B．Skeptical

C．Ambiguous.

D．approval

4. Which may be the most suitable title for the text?

A．AI Sniffs out Unsafe Foods

B．FDA Detects Unsafe foods

C．AI Helps FDA Judge Reviews

D．FDA Develops System of Judging Reviews

7 . Mars will launch a new range of lower calorie chocolate bars next month to avoid the government’s latest crackdown on unhealthy snacks.

The company’s “Triple Treat” range will include new versions of Mars, Bounty, Snickers and Galaxy bars, and will be available exclusively in Tesco supermarkets. The new formulation Mars bar will be 22 per cent smaller and contain 24 per cent fewer calories. However, it will cost 80p rather than the 65p charged for a standard bar. The company said the higher price was justified because it had used more expensive ingredients, such as date paste, raisins and peanuts in the new version.

From October, foods considered high in salt, fat or sugar, including Mars’s traditional bars, will be banned from checkouts, store entrances and the ends of aisles under government plans to control the obesity crisis.

The NHS (National Health Service) spends more than £6 billion a year treating obesity-related ill health. The government says that children in the poorest parts of the country are more than twice as likely to be obese as their peers in the wealthiest areas. Kerry Cavanaugh, Mars Wrigley UK Marketing Director, said: “Triple Treat does exactly what it says on the tin-it’s packed with a trio of fruit, nuts and our iconic chocolate, and is delightfully delicious to boot. At Mars Wrigley, we’re thrilled that Brits can now enjoy a great tasting-and health-friendly-Galaxy, Mars, Snickers and Bounty treat. Per 100g, the new Mars will contain 37 per cent less fat, 30 per cent less sugar and 55 per cent less salt than the original bar. Mars has developed the range over the past 18 months to ensure that it can continue placing its chocolate snacks in prominent locations in stores.”

Other candy and chocolate giants have struggled to make products that are in accordance with the government’s new rules. In 2019 Mondelez released Cadbury Dairy Milk with 30 per cent less sugar yet learnt that it was still in trouble when the criteria were confirmed two years later.

1. What do we know about the new Mars bars?

A．They are sold at an unacceptable price.

B．They will be available in three versions.

C．They can be bought in most supermarkets.

D．They feature lower calories and smaller size.

2. What’s the purpose of the government’s new rules?

A．To crack clown on illegal snacks.	B．To ease the obesity crisis.
C．To raise money for poor children.	D．To treat obesity-related illnesses.

3. What does Kerry Cavanaugh probably agree with?

A．The New Mars are both tasty and healthy.

B．Britons will be disappointed at the new Mars.

C．Mars bars are reinvented as sugar-free snacks.

D．Restrictions on chocolate bars should be lifted.

4. What does the author want to show by mentioning Mondelez?

A．The new rules require further tightening up.

B．Businesses are slow to respond to the new rules.

C．The new rules have hardly benefited snack producers.

D．Businesses have had a hard time adjusting to the new rules.

8 . Anyone who’s tried different weight-loss diets is probably familiar with their pitfalls. Low-calorie diets often leave you tired and hungry. Low-fat diets are also tough to follow and, contrary lo popular belief, they do not seem lo prevent heart disease.

Another diet trend, intermittent fasting, takes a different approach. Rather than limiting what you cat, this diet limits when you cat. It normally involves eating only during a certain time window, usually eight hours, over a single day. For example, you would eat only during the hours of 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. and then fast during the other 16 hours. For some people, thal change may be easier to manage,says Dr. Eric Rim, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

Short-termism studies suggest that people stick to intermittent fasting diets as well as or better than they do to other diets. And according to a 2019 review article in the journal Nutrients, intermittent fasting promotes weight loss and may reduce risk factors linked to heart disease, including diabetes, high blood pressure, and unhealthy blood lipid levels.

“However, we are currently unsure about how well this diet works over the long term,”says Dr. Rim, noting that there are just two long-term studies of intermittent fasting,each lasting a year. Nor are there large populations of people who’ve followed this eating pattern for years. That’s in contrast to two other diets linked to a healthy heart and healthy body size—the Mediterranean diet and a vegetarian diet.

Some experts add that intermittent fasting diets typically don’t specify what foods you should eat. ”As a nutritional epidemiologist, that makes me a little uncomfortable,“ Dr. David Mushen admits. Eating burgers and French fries five days a week and a single breakfast sandwich on your low-calorie day wouldn’t be-healthy, he says. But with any diet, it’s often a good idea to ease into the changes. You could start by trying a 5:2 diet or time-resisted eating. Once you start losing weight, you can gradually introduce more healthy foods, he suggests.

1. The underlined word“pitfalls”in the first paragraph means

A．problems	B．procedures
C．Alternatives	D．assumptions

2. Why does Rim mention the Mediterranean diet?

A．To demonstrate the appropriate approach to dieting.

B．To show uncertainty about the effect of the new trend.

C．To illustrate the popularity of low-calorie eating patterns.

D．To stress the importance of a healthy heart and body size.

3. What does Dr. David Mushen suggest?

A．Giving priority lo nutrition.

B．Conducting further research.

C．Losing weight step by step.

D．Proceeding with extreme caution.

4. What might be the best title for the text?

A．Ready to Restrict Your Dict?

B．Time to Try Intermittent Fasting

C．What’s Wrong with Intermittent Fasting

D．How Different Weight-loss Methods Work?

9 . In recent years, researchers of Cornell University’s Food and Brand Lab are studying how environmental factors influence many Americans to unnoticeably eat too much. Many people wrongly believe that factors like hunger or boredom and depression are the main causes of overeating, but their research has shown otherwise. It is thought that we overeat if the food is good or if we’re really hungry. In reality, those are two of the last things that determine how much we eat.

In one experiment, the researcher placed jars of candies in workers’ offices for a month. Then, he moved the candies 1.8 m away. The office workers ate five more candies each day when the jar was closer to them, equaling an additional 125 calories a day. It does not sound too bad, but add that up over a year and you will have gained 5.4 kg. “If something is visible, every time we see it, we have to make a decision: to eat it or not?” the researcher explained.

In the other experiment, moviegoers were given five-day-old popcorn, some in medium-size buckets, some in large buckets. The researcher found that moviegoers who had the larger buckets ate 53 percent more, despite its unpleasant taste. He believes that the distraction of the movie and hearing others eat the popcorn persuade people to keep eating.

The findings in other researches have shown that we tend to eat more when we use larger dishes, eat in front of the television, or dine with someone who eats a lot. Researchers of the lab advise a gradual approach in changing eating habits. People can cut a couple of hundred calories a day by doing things such as avoiding open food dishes at the office, using smaller serving bowls, sitting next to the slowest eater and being the last one to start eating.

1. What is the truth shown by the study?

A．We eat more when the food is good.

B．People tend to eat a lot when they dine out.

C．Feeling depressed leads us to overeat.

D．Hunger is not the key factor in overeating.

2. What can we learn from the two experiments?

A．People turn to more candies for more energy.

B．Office workers eat more candies due to visibility.

C．Moviegoers eat more popcorn because it is tasty.

D．People keep eating popcorn to enjoy the movie.

3. What is suggested in changing eating habits?

A．Dining with slim persons.	B．Eating while watching films
C．Using smaller dishes.	D．Starting eating earlier.

4. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To display a research process.

B．To instruct how to do research experiments.

C．To warn against overeating.

D．To advise being a mindful eater.

10 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Scientists have long discussed the possibility that blood pressure drugs might affect cancer risk. After several news stories    1    (publish) that focused only on the potential risk, some patients were    2     (hesitate) about taking their medications.    3    the largest analysis to date should put their minds    4    ease: based on 31 trials, the 2020 university of Oxford review concludes that none of the classes of blood pressure drugs raises the risk of cancer. Meanwhile, there    5    (be) good evidence that these prescriptions help to prevent heart lacks and strokes.

People    6    (live) with obesity needn’t be reminded that, as a group, they have    7    higher risk of life-threatening health issues. It’s not that they don’t realize this; it’s that shedding extra kilograms and keeping them off is far    8    (easy) said than done. However, overweight people who eat    9    (healthy) have a low risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, according to a new study. Swedish researchers measured how closely people kept to a Mediterranean-type diet, and found that those    10     ate a healthier diet were at lower risk of dying, regardless of their BMI. The authors suggest that we shift our focus onto healthy eating, but caution that being overweight still carries health risks.