1 . On today’s blog post, I’ll talk about my favorite magazines. I love reading books and magazines, and I’m learning so many useful tips about health y living, daily life, etc.
Women’s Health
Women’s Health has a unique content. You can find various interesting information about healthy living or exercises you can do at home. I also love their writers because they explain every topic so simply that you can even understand biological articles.
Healthy Food Guide
I totally recommend it to everyone because it has lots of useful information about being healthy during your daily life. In this magazine, you can find articles about foods you often eat but don’t have much idea what they contain or if they’re healthy. If you are searching for new diets, this magazine gives you all the information.
Time Out
Time Out is a well-known magazine and it’s free in my city. Every time I see a Time Out magazine, I get it because it has lots of useful tips. I got Time Out London when I was in London, and I discovered new restaurants, galleries, museums and events. This magazine has various information about the city life. For example, it gives you the events that are happening near you. It gives you tips for the railway stations and other transportation choices.
La Cucina Italiana
If you love cooking Italian food, this magazine is for you! It has lots of recipes and also restaurant reviews. You can also find popular restaurants near you in this magazine. I’ve also read articles by famous chefs from my city.
1. What do Women’s Health and Healthy Food Guide have in common?| A．They have a unique content. | B．They have information about health. |
| C．They explain every topic simply. | D．They teach people how to cook. |
| A．La Cucina Italiana. | B．Time Out. |
| C．Women’s Health. | D．Healthy Food Guide. |
| A．He lives in London. | B．He often goes travelling. |
| C．He loves and enjoys life. | D．He likes collecting recipes. |
1. 列举当前的现状；
2. 提出合理的建议；
3. 倡导健康生活。
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Dear fellow students,
As the president of our Student Union, I would like to give a speech on healthy lifestyle.
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Thank you for listening!
3 . After a busy morning, lunch can feel like just the pick-me-up you need-but sometimes the meal that you thought would energize you is the very thing that makes you want to nap at your desk.
Feeling tired after lunch, or post-meals in general, is known as postprandial somnolence—or, colloquially, the food coma.
Part of this phenomenon is due to basic physiology (生理学): When humans eat, most of our blood goes to the digestive organs to process the food, said Sandra Arévalo, director of community health and wellness at Montefiore Nyack Hospital in New York state.
The tendency to get tired after eating isn’t inherently suggestive of something amiss (出错的). But there can be additional factors that worsen this natural response, making getting through the rest of the workday or any activities feel like a slog. Here’s what to watch out for and how to make adjustments.
When it comes to why you feel overly tired after eating, a common cause is consuming meals that are heavy in terms of quantity or quality. Not eating breakfast can lead to overindulging later in the day if excessive (过度的) hunger makes controlling your appetite difficult, Arévalo said.
Sometimes, however, the makeup of certain foods can contribute to tiredness. Fats are the hardest nutrient to digest because their molecules are much larger than those of protein or carbs, said Julie Stefanski, a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. If you had a meal high in fat—such as fried foods or pizza—that could make you feel tired. Meals high in added sugar or refined or highly processed carbohydrates can have the same effect.
The fiber in so-called whole foods like corns slows the absorption of sugar into the body, which means they don’t cause blood sugar or insulin spikes and instead give you more stable, lasting energy, said Kristin Kirkpatrick, a registered dietitian at the Cleveland Clinic.
“A five-minute walk or something helps to improve circulation and alertness (机敏), as well,” Arévalo said.
1. What can we know from the third paragraph?| A．Blood is bad for the digestive organs. |
| B．Blood has varieties of tasks to carry out. |
| C．Eating habits have a great effect on health. |
| D．Eating too much can burden the digestive organs. |
| A．over-consuming | B．overweight | C．felling sleepy | D．lacking energy |
| A．Sugar cake. | B．Pizza. | C．Fried egg. | D．Corn. |
| A．To present a new study. | B．To clarify a concept. |
| C．To provide some guidance. | D．To show a social phenomenon. |
4 . Sugar-free cookies, sugar-free candy, and diet soda—are these better for you? After sugar became a no-no in the nutrition and wellness world, sugar-free food and drinks acted as a replacement for once beloved sweet drinks and snacks. Being claimed to be ZERO sugar means the food and drinks are healthier, better for diabetics, and help you slim down ... Right? Wrong. Sugar-free products aren’t better for you. In fact, they are worse. For most sugar-free products, it means that artificial sweeteners (甜味剂) are used instead of real sugar. The problem is that these sweeteners do not come from natural soures and they can do you more harm than good.
Let’s get into what these artificial sweeteners actually are. Sugar-free sugar sounds wrong because there is no such thing as sugar-free sugar. Some of these sugar-free alternatives even contain sugar and the ones that have chemicals your body often does not know how to process. Most artificial sweeteners are a lot sweeter than sugar so only a small quantity of them are needed. That’s why they can market sugar-free alternatives as “low-calorie” or “no-calorie’. It also means that you get no nutritional value from consuming them, which is why so many sugar-free replacements are classified as “non-nutritive”. These artificial sweeteners tend to hide under some names. Actually, they are 200-600 times sweeter than sugar.When you eat sweet stuff, your body continues to desire it and, even though your body cannot metabolize (代谢) these sugar-free alternatives, your brain does not know the difference. In turn sugar-free alternatives relate to weight gain and Type-2 diabetes. Besides, artificial sweeteners also damage your gut’s ability to break down sugar which impacts everything you eat. In other words, your body doesn’t know how to handle artificial sweeteners because they have nothing real to process.
Here is a good rule of thumb: stay away from artificial sweeteners and look for non-sugar, natural sweeteners like stevia (甜叶菊) or date sugar. In the war against artificial sweeteners and real sugar, both lose. Satisfy your sweet tooth with natural sugar that comes from fruits and stay away from products claimed to be sugar-free.
1. What do most sugar-free products have in common?
| A．They don’t taste sweet. | B．They are free of calories. |
| C．They are rich in nutrition. | D．They have artificial sweeteners. |
| A．They are as sweet as sugar. | B．They pose a big risk to health. |
| C．They can be metabolized easily | D．They have long been added to food. |
| A．To keep a balanced diet. | B．To stay away from sugary products. |
| C．To choose fewer artificial ingredients. | D．To take in sugar from natural sources |
| A．Why are sugar-free products bad for your health? |
| B．How will sugar-free products affect your body? |
| C．What can be called sugar-free products? |
| D．Why are sugar-free products popular? |
1. What does the man advise the woman to do?
| A．Go on a diet. | B．Do more exercise. | C．Have a good rest. |
| A．Eggs. | B．Bread. | C．Beef. |
6 . Eating a juicy steak is worse for the environment than frying up some tofu: that should come as no surprise. Going vegan can greatly cut the carbon footprint of your diet. But what about the fewer calories, and lower levels of protein, found in most plant-based foods when compared with meat?
To make the relative carbon impact of foods easier to understand, The Economist proposes a banana index (指数). It compares popular foodstuffs in three aspects—weight, calories and protein—compared to the humble banana, a fruit of middling nutritional value and impact on weather conditions.
Indexing greenhouse-gas emissions to a single food gives a sense of how different foodstuffs rank. Unfortunately for carnivores (食肉动物), beef is bad for the environment no matter how you slice it. Producing one kilogram of mince (馅) causes as many emissions as 109kg of bananas (call it a “banana score” of 109). As for nutritional value, beef’s banana score falls to 54 (one calorie of beef mince causes 54 times as much carbon emissions as one calorie of banana). By protein, it scores seven.
Poultry (家禽) scores 11 bananas by weight and four by calorie. However, as a source of protein, it is more carbon-friendly than bananas: poultry protein emits just three-fifths of the same amount of banana protein. The same applies to salmon. Unsurprisingly, plant-based alternatives to meat do even better: a meat-free burger, for instance, scores just one-fifth of the emissions of bananas per gram of protein.
Our banana index relies on average emissions for a given food. In the real world some producers are more climate-friendly than others, and some foods travel farther to consumers. Our banana index also does not capture other environmental impacts, such as land and water use (though here too, beef tends to perform poorly).
Voting in Europe suggests that most consumers want to be more climate-friendly—and with food production responsible for perhaps a quarter of global emissions, eating with the climate in mind would make a difference. Three-quarters of the respondents said they want labels that would explain the climate impact of their food. In the meantime, our banana index might help.
1. What’s the most likely reason for bananas to be chosen as an object of reference?| A．Bananas have fewer calories and less protein. |
| B．Bananas are a humble fruit. |
| C．Bananas have the least impact on the environment. |
| D．Bananas are of medium climate effect and nutrition. |
| A．Beef | B．A meat-free burger | C．Poultry | D．A banana |
| A．Its drawbacks | B．Its benefits |
| C．Its practical meanings | D．Its principles |
| A．An approach to assessing nutritional value of food |
| B．A way to measure the climate impact of food |
| C．A great indicator of greenhouse-gas emissions |
| D．A big helper in deciding what to buy |
7 . A spoonful of pickles (腌菜) can sometimes make a meal taste better. Recently, a new type of pickle is being discussed: “digital pickled vegetables”. It refers to the videos people watch while eating that make their food more appetizing.
The topic received more than 16 million clicks on Sina Weibo and about 100,000 people participated in the discussion. Instead of being accompanied by friends and family during a meal, many young people in China are kept company by TV shows or short videos. Many believe that their food is tastier with the “digital pickles”.
Can this habit affect your diet? According to a research paper published in 2019, you may eat more unconsciously. The international research team asked 62 volunteers to follow different eating patterns on four different days. The patterns included eating while looking at the mobile phone, reading magazines and without distraction. After analyzing their diets, the team discovered that eating with a distraction increased caloric intake by about 15 percent.
To explore the reason, the team also 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 that helped them imagine themselves eating. The results showed that the second group ate less since they were more focused on their meals. When eating with the “digital pickles”, our attention can be distracted, which leads to eating more than expected.
This works not only for eating meals but other demanding tasks as well. A research project led by the University of Sussex, UK, pointed out that activities which require lots of attention trick many participants into overeating. The team invited 120 participants to do various tasks while providing them with drinks and snacks. “Our study suggests that if you’re eating or drinking while your attention is distracted by a highly engaging task, you’re less likely to be able to tell how full you feel” one of the authors Martin Yeomans explained.
1. What do “digital pickles” refer to?| A．A new type of vegetables. |
| B．Electronic products popular online. |
| C．Videos people watch while eating. |
| D．Digital games suitable for families. |
| A．They are more focused on their meals. |
| B．They are distracted by “digital pickles”. |
| C．The food tastes better with “digital pickles”. |
| D．The “digital pickles” make them feel hungrier. |
| A．It explores the reason why people prefer “digital pickles” while having meals. |
| B．Eating while hearing another person eating can keep one more focused on his meal. |
| C．Eating while imaging oneself eating can keep one more focused on his meal. |
| D．When eating without the “digital pickles”, we are bound to eat less. |
| A．To give another case that causes overeating. |
| B．To describe the effects of “digital pickles”. |
| C．To explain how to judge you are full. |
| D．To present how to avoid being distracted. |
1. What’s the woman’s topic?
| A．Health. | B．Food. | C．Drinks. |
| A．A chef. | B．A scientist. | C．A doctor. |
| A．The nutrition of food. | B．The changes of drinks. | C．The amount of eating out. |
| A．People drink more milk. | B．People drink more soda. | C．People drink fewer soft drinks. |
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| A．design | B．teach | C．share | D．choose |
| A．taste | B．cooking | C．health | D．wealth |
| A．eat | B．wear | C．speak | D．think |
| A．idea | B．habit | C．diet | D．goal |
| A．cheap | B．proper | C．delicious | D．wrong |
| A．space | B．money | C．time | D．courage |
| A．special | B．poor | C．simple | D．balanced |
| A．make | B．miss | C．get | D．order |
| A．fresh | B．dried | C．fast | D．expensive |
| A．promise | B．beg | C．decide | D．try |
| A．reason | B．excuse | C．result | D．opinion |
| A．means | B．includes | C．needs | D．produces |
| A．enjoy | B．show | C．prepare | D．research |
| A．settle down to | B．are buried in | C．are made of | D．are used to |
| A．moved | B．surprised | C．troubled | D．worried |
| A．Go on a diet. | B．Give up exercise. | C．Have a balanced diet. |
