PALO ALTO, California----"Switching off the television may help prevent children from getting fatter---- even if they do not change their diet or increase the amount they exercise," US researchers said last week.
　　A study of 192 third and fourth graders, generally aged eight and nine, found that children who cut the number of hours spent watching television gained nearly two pounds(0.9kg) less over a one-year period than those who did not change their television diet.
　　"The findings are important because they show that weight loss can only be the result of a reduction in television viewing and not any other activity," said Thomas Robinson, a pediatrician(兒科專家) at Stanford University.
　　"American children spend an average of more than four hours per day watching television and videos or playing video games, and rates of childhood being very fat have doubled over the past 20 years," Robinson said.
　　In the study, presented this week to the Pediatric Academic Societies‘ annual meeting in San Francisco, the researchers persuaded about 100 of the students to reduce their television viewing by one-quarter to one-third.
　　Children watching fewer hours of television showed a significantly smaller increase in waist size and had less body fat than other students who continued their normal television viewing, even though neither group ate a special diet or took part in any extra exercise.
　　"One explanation for the weight loss could be the children unstuck to the television may simply have been moving around more and burning off calories," Robinson said.
　　"Another reason might be due to eating fewer meals in front of the television. Some studies have suggested that eating in front of the TV encourages people to eat more," Robinson said.
小題1:The author tries to tell us in the first two paragraphs that ________.
A．children will get fatter if they eat too much
B．children will get thinner if they eat less
C．children will get fatter if they spend less time watching TV
D．children will get fatter if they spend more time watching TV
小題2:According to the passage, the time American children usually spend on watching TV_____.
A．is more than four hours a day
B．is less than four hours a day
C．doubled in the last twenty years
D．is more than on any other activities
小題3:The time children spend on TV viewing every day is suggested to be about
A．six hoursB．eight hoursC．three hoursD．one hour
小題4:Why can watching TV increase kids’ weight according to the passage?
　　A. They usually eat more while watching TV.
　　B. They burn off fewer calories.
C. They change their diet while watching TV.
D. Both A and B.

小題1:D
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:D
文章是關(guān)于看電視和肥胖的關(guān)系，美國兒童看電視時(shí)間太長，文章建議減少孩子看電視的時(shí)間，并分析原因。
小題1:推斷題。根據(jù)第二段第二行children who cut the number of hours spent watching television gained nearly two pounds(0.9kg) less�？芍倏措娨暱梢詼p肥。推斷出多看電視的孩子可能會(huì)變胖。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第四段第一行American children spend an average of more than four hours per day watching television and videos or playing video games。
小題3:推斷題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第四段最后一句reduce their television viewing by one-quarter to one-third.
小題4:推斷題。根據(jù)文章最后一段可知A，倒數(shù)第二段可知B；所以選D。
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B．Its original mission was to work for five years.
C．It landed on Mars three weeks later than Opportunity.
D． It discovered that Mars was once a warm and wetter place.
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D．Contact and order Spirit to turn on its backup radio transmitter.
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B．NASA will depend on Opportunity to do the exploration
C．NASA will do nothing but wait for some opportunity
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A．NASA has planned to spend more money on Spirit
B．Spirit will be brought back to Earth
C．Spirit will stop operating totally in the future
D．Spirit will cause damage to Mars
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A．NASA makes the last effort to contact Spirit.
B．Spirit has made many important discoveries on Mars.
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