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 pre­bedtime calories. And watch your body gain the fat­burning effects.
小題1:The underlined word "leftovers" in Paragraph 1 probably means ______.
A．food remaining after a meal B．things left undone
C．meals made of vegetables D．pizza topped with fruit
小題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.
小題3:According to the last paragraph, it is important to ______.
A．eat something for breakfastB．be careful about what you eat
C．heat up food before eating itD．eat calorie- controlled food
小題4:The text is written mainly for those _______.
A．who go to work earlyB．who eat before sleep
C．who stay up lateD．who want to lose weight

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:D
 
小題1:A猜測詞義題。解題思路：根據(jù)該詞位置定位到文章第一段第三句話, 根據(jù)句中的last night’s 比較四個選項(xiàng)同時結(jié)合整篇文章可以斷定該詞意為剩飯。因此, 選A。
小題2:B推理判斷題。首先根據(jù)文章主題為breakfast 可以排除CD選項(xiàng), 其次, 根據(jù)文題一致原則可推斷該部分答案應(yīng)該在文章開頭部分的第2、3段, 再看A選項(xiàng)中的have breakfast in a hurry與文章中的skip breakfast(不吃早餐)表意相反, 因此, 排除A選項(xiàng)。正確選項(xiàng)B與文章主題及細(xì)節(jié)表意相符。
小題3:A 段落大意題。綜合最后一段可以發(fā)現(xiàn)第一句話為該段主題句, 綜合全文來看, 核心高頻詞匯為breakfast,因此選A。  
小題4:D 文章主旨大意。將文章中第3、4段首句和文章末句相加即可得出本文的針對對象。
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