Children brought up on healthy diets are more intelligent compared with their junk food eating partners, a new research suggests.
Kids fed a diet packed high in fats, sugars, and processed(加工) foods had lower IQs than those fed pasta(意大利面食), salads and fruit, it was found.
The effect is so great that researchers from the University of Bristol said those children with a “healthier” diet may get an IQ improvement.
Scientists stressed good diet was essential in a child’s early as the brain grows at its fastest rate during the first three years of life.
This indicated head growth at this time is linked to intellectual ability and “it is possible that good nutrition(營養(yǎng))during this period may encourage excellent brain growth”
Scientists tracked the long term health and happiness of around 14,000 children born in 1991 and 1992 as part of the West Country’s Avon Longitudinal(縱向的)Study of Parents and Children(ALSPAC).
Parents were questioned about the types and frequency of the food and drink their children consumed when they were three, four, seven and eight and a half years old. According to their different changing form, these children were marked and given grades which ranged from minus two for the most healthy to 10 for the most unhealthy.
In the research, IQ was measured of 4,000 children when they were eight and half years old, using a validated(經(jīng)過認(rèn)證的)test-the Wechsler Intelligence Scale(韋氏兒童智力量表)for Children.
The results found after taking account of some influential factors, a leading processed food diet at the age of three was associated with a lower IQ at the age of eight and a half, whether the diet was improved after that age.
Every 1 point increase in dietary pattern score was associated with a 1.67 fall in IQ.
小題1:          Scientists stressed good diet was essential in a child’s early life because   .
A．the brain grows at its fastest rate during the first three years of life.
B．those children with a “healthier” diet must get an IQ improvement.
C．children brought up on healthy diets are less intelligent.
D．these children were given good grades.
小題2:          Which of the following in NOT true?
A．Those children with a “healthier” diet may get an IQ improvement.
B．Good nutrition at any stage may encourage excellent brain growth.
C．Scientists tracked the long term health and happiness of about 14,000 children.
D．Every 1 point increase in dietary pattern score was associated with a 1.67 fall in IQ.
小題3:          The recults found if a child ate a leading processed food diet when he was 3, he would      .
A．have a higher IQ
B．have a higher IQ as long as he improved his diet
C．have one IQ when he was 8
D．have a lower IQ whether he improved his diet
小題4:          Parents were questioned except when their children were      years old.
A．3B．4C．7D．8
小題5:          What is the best title of the passage?
A．Food for thought
B．What is healthy food?
C．Healthy diet improves children’s intelligence
D．How to become clever?

小題1:          A
小題2:          B
小題3:          D
小題4:          D
小題5:          C

試題分析：
小題1:          細(xì)節(jié)題，由第四段Scientists stressed good diet was essential in a child’s early as the brain grows at its fastest rate during the first three years of life可以知道答案，所以選A
小題2:          細(xì)節(jié)題，可以用排除法，由第三段children with a “healthier” diet may get an IQ improvement.可以知道A；由第六段第一句Scientists tracked the long term health and happiness of around 14,000 children可以知道C；由最后一段Every 1 point increase in dietary pattern score was associated with a 1.67 fall in IQ. 可以知道D，所以選B
小題3:          細(xì)節(jié)題，由倒數(shù)第二段最后一句processed food diet at the age of three was associated with a lower IQ at the age of eight and a half, whether the diet was improved after that age可以知道答案，所以選D
小題4:          細(xì)節(jié)題，由倒數(shù)第四段第二行children consumed when they were three, four, seven and eight and a half years old可以知道答案，所以選D
小題5:          推理題，由本文的主要意思“健康的飲食能提高孩子們的智商”，所以選C
點評：本文說明了健康的飲食能提高孩子們的智商。先通讀全文，然后帶著問題，再讀全文，找出答題所需要的依據(jù)，完成閱讀。本文主要考查細(xì)節(jié)題，要求學(xué)生有很強(qiáng)的細(xì)節(jié)分析能力。
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