I know what you’re thinking: pizza? For breakfast? But the truth is that you can have last night’s leftovers in the a.m. if you want to.
I know lots of women who skip breakfast, and they have a ton of different excuses for doing it. Some say they don’t have time, others think they’re “saving” calories, still others just don’t like breakfast food.
But the bottom line is that eating in the morning is very important when you’re trying to lose weight. “Eating just about anything from 300 to 400 calories would be better than nothing at all,” says Katherine Brooking, R. D., who developed the super-easy eating plan for this year’s “SELF CHALLENGE”. And even pizza can be healthy if it’s loaded with vegetables, and you stick to one small piece.
Breakfast is one meal I never miss, and the same goes for most weight loss success stories. Research shows that eating breakfast keeps you from overeating later in the day. Researchers at the University of Southern California found that breakfast skippers have a bigger chance of gaining weight than those who regularly have a morning meal.
So eat something in the morning, anything. I know plenty of friends who end up having no breakfast altogether, and have just coffee or orange juice. I say, try heating up last night’s leftovers—it may sound crazy, but if it works for you, do it! I find if I tell myself, “You can always eat it tomorrow,” I put away the leftovers instead of eating more that night. Try it…you may save yourself some pre-bedtime calories. And watch your body gain the fat-burning effects.
【小题1】The word “leftovers” in Paragraph 1 probably means .A．food remaining after a mealB．things left undoneC．meals made of vegetablesD．pizza topped with fruit【小题2】What can we infer from the text?A．Working women usually have breakfast in a hurry.B．Many people have wrong ideas about breakfast.C．There are some easy ways of cooking a meal.D．Eating vegetables helps save energy.【小题3】The text is written mainly for those .A．who go to work earlyB．who want to lose weightC．who stay up lateD．who eat before sleepA
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(答案→)A
解析：文章介绍了很多人不吃早饭的坏习惯，介绍不吃早饭的坏处和 对减肥的不好影响。
【小题1】猜测词义题。解题思路：根据该词位置定位到文章第一段第三句话, 根据句中的last night’s 比较四个选项同时结合整篇文章可以断定该词意为“剩饭”。因此, 选A。
【小题2】推理判断题。首先根据文章主题为breakfast 可以排除CD选项, 其次, 根据文题一致原则可推断该部分答案应该在文章开头部分的第2、3段, 再看A选项中的have breakfast in a hurry与文章中的skip breakfast(不吃早餐)表意相反, 因此, 排除A选项。正确选项B与文章主题及细节表意相符。
【小题3】文章主旨大意。将文章中第3、4段首句和文章末句相加即可得出本文的针对对象。可知这篇文章是写给想减肥的人看的。选B。