When doctors urge overweight kids to pick up more activities，reading probably isn’t what they have in mind. Yet a new study by fatness researchers at Duke University finds that the simple act of reading—depending on the choice of material—can cause weight loss in teenage girls.
The study’s experimental group included 31 fat girls aged 9 to 13，who took part in the Healthy Lifestyles Program at Duke Children’s Hospital. The girls read a novel called Lake Rescue，whose protagonist (主人公) is an overweight teenager who struggles with low selfesteem，feelings of loneliness and teasing because of her size. A group of 33 girls read a different book called Charlotte in Paris，which did not have an overweight character，and another group of 17 girls read neither book.
At the end of the sixmonth experiment，all the girls who read books had lost weight，but the girls who read Lake Rescue lost more. They lowered their body mass index (BMI) by 0.71，pared with 0.33 in the Charlotte group，an average 0.05 increase among the nonreaders.
The idea behind the study，says Dr Sarah Armstrong，director of Healthy Lifestyles，was to find a way to encourage the girls without adopting the restrictive and often authoritative voice of so many other nutrition and diet programs. Lake Rescue was the perfect instrument，says Armstrong；it presents a likable character to whom the girls could relate and whom they could learn from. As the book progresses，its protagonist learns to make healthier lifestyle choices and finds an adviser to help keep her on track. Armstrong says，“She learns that she can bee healthier，and the ‘I can do it’ feeling resonates (产生共鸣) with the teenage girls.”
【小题1】What’s the main idea of the passage?A．There are different ways to help overweight kids lose weight.B．Lifestyle is important for kids.C．Lake Rescue is the perfect weightlosing instrument.D．Reading can help kids lose weight.【小题2】How many girls took part in the experiment? A．31.B．33.C．64.D．81.【小题3】What does the underlined word “She” in the last paragraph refer to?A．Armstrong.B．The protagonist in Lake Rescue.C．A character in Charlotte in Paris.D．A girl in the first group.【小题4】According to the passage we can know that .A．overweight girls are living unhappilyB．reading is the best way to lose weightC．different reading materials play different roles in losing weightD．people will bee fat if they don’t read【小题5】In which part of a newspaper can we read the above passage?A．Education.B．Entertainment.C．Health.D．Advertisement.D
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(答案→)D
解析：这篇文章主要讲了阅读与减肥的关系。通过实验证明，不同的阅读材料在减肥中扮演着不同的角色。
【小题1】根据Yet a new study by fatness researchers at Duke University finds that the simple act of reading—depending on the choice of material—can cause weight loss in teenage girls.故选D。
【小题2】共有三组参加实验，人数分别是：31,33,17，把三组人数加起来. 故选D。
【小题3】根据T As the book progresses，its protagonist learns to make healthier lifestyle choices and finds an adviser to help keep her on track.故选B。
【小题4】根据At the end of the sixmonth experiment，all the girls who read books had lost weight，but the girls who read Lake Rescue lost more. They lowered their body mass index (BMI) by 0.71，pared with 0.33 in the Charlotte group，an average 0.05 increase among the nonreaders.故选C。
【小题5】这篇文章主要是关于阅读与减肥的关系，所以这样的文章最可能出现在报纸的健康版块，故选C。