To some, it's a dream job---eating delicious meals for free and then writing about them. But for some food critics, their eyes aren't the only thing that gets wide with yet another feast.
Karen Fernau, a food writer for The Arisona Republic, said when she first started her job –she began to gain weight. “I always looked forward to lunch before this job, then all of a sudden lunch was all day every dayshe says. Nine years later, keeping her weight steady and her health intact （完好无损的）is a daily battle. If she knows she will be going to a tasting at a bakery or eating a four-course meal, she usually eats fruits or salads throughout the day. Now she is always keeping track of what's in the food she eats and she says most people don't even look at or consider it. At one tasting task alone, she says, upward of l,000 calories is often added to her day. That's about half of the remended total calories per day for the average adult.
But even though she's thought of a special eating method, Fernau says sticking to it is a daily battle. And food editors, writers and critics across the country couldn't agree more. “When I'm at home or not eating for work, it's healthy food to the extreme, says Phil Vettel, who's been a restaurant critic for the Chicago Tribune for 19 years.
Vettle, who eats dinner at four restaurants each week, says unlike most professions, he has no right to choose. If I'm going out to eat, I can't choose the healthiest thing on the menu, I have to eat when they're bringing meWhile Vettel exercises when he can, Joe Yonan, a food editor at The Washington Post, has strengthened his exercise habits since he started the job two years ago. Yonan says he realized early on that he was gaining weight and immediately hired a personal trainer to meet with three times a week, on top of his body training three to five times a week.
Still, it's a struggle that many Americans might envy. After all, it's one thing to get your calories from lobster（龙虾） tails or a delicate（精致的）chocolate cookie and quite another to get them from sodas and fast-food burgers.
【小题1】What does the underlined sentence mean in Para l?A．The food critics are always impressed by the delicious food in the restaurant. B．The food critics are shocked to learn they have to have one more feast. C．There is a wide variety of choices for the food critics to choose from.D．The food critics eat delicious food, which also tends to result in gaining weight.【小题2】What can we learn about the job of being a food critic?A．They enjoy free and delicious dishes and make ments on them. B．They only work for local magazines and newspapers. C．Once they bee food critics, they tend to stay in the job. D．Their excellent sense of taste makes them qualified for the job.【小题3】What is mentioned to be a method that food writers use to keep fit?A．Not eating anything except for the free meals. B．Writing down everything they put into their mouth. C．Hiring a personal trainer for special exercise instructions. D．Choosing only the healthy food on the menu.【小题4】What can we infer from the last paragraph?A．No matter whether the food is expensive or not, the gaining of calories is the same. B．The calories that lobster tails and chocolate cookies contain are less harmful.C．Americans envy those food critics since they enjoy delicate and tasty food. D．Everybody should take the calories in their food carefully.【小题5】What's the main idea of the passage?A．A job offering free meals may not be as desirable as it sounds to be. B．Dishes in the restaurant usually contain too many calories. C．Eating fruits and vegetables every day is the best way to lose weight. D．Food writers work hard to maintain their health and weight.D
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(答案→)D
解析：文章主要讲述了美食评论家的烦恼。他们能够免费品尝各种美食，这让其他人非常羡慕，但他们也有烦恼。因为品尝美食会让他们增加体重，给他们带来健康方面的问题。
【小题1】“To some, it's a dream job---eating delicious meals for free and then writing about them. But for some food critics, their eyes aren't the only thing that gets wide with yet another feast.”对于一些人来说，它是一个理想的工作--品尝美味的食物，然后写下评论。但是，对于一些美食评论家来说，美食盛宴开阔的不只是他们的眼界（，还有身体）。根据第二段的“she began to gain weight”可知，品尝美食会让评论家变胖。故选D。
【小题2】根据“eating delicious meals for free and then writing about them”可知，品尝美味食物并写下评论，这就是美食评论家的工作。故选A。
【小题3】根据第四段“I can't choose the healthiest thing on the menu”可知，D项错误；根据“hired a personal trainer to meet with three times a week”可知，C项正确。故选C。
【小题4】根据“Still, it's a struggle that many Americans might envy.”可知，能够免费品尝美食，这让美国人感到嫉妒。因为他们只能从苏打或快餐汉堡里获得卡路里。故选C。
【小题5】考查文章大意。文章主要讲述了美食评论家的烦恼，一方面能够免费品尝美食，另一方面，却要为增重和健康问题而烦恼。为了预防增加体重，评论家各出奇招，有的雇佣专业的训练人员，有的加强训练的强度等。很多人都难抵美食的诱惑，排除A；美食让人增重，但并不意味着饭店里的食物都是美食，排除B；文中未提及水果蔬菜是最好的减肥方法，排除C；故选D。