Generations of Americans have been brought＿＿＿＿26to believe that a good breakfast is important for health. Eating breakfast at the＿＿＿＿27of the day, we have all been28,is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car ＿＿＿＿ 29starting a trip.
But for many people the thought of food first in the morning is by ＿＿＿＿ ＿＿＿＿30pleasures. So ＿＿＿＿ 31 all the efforts, they still take no ＿＿＿＿ 32. Between 1978 and 1983, the latest years for which figures are ＿＿＿＿ 33, the number of people who didn' t have breakfast increased ＿＿＿＿ 3433 percent--from8.8 million to 11.7 million＿＿＿＿35the Chinese hased Market Research Corporation of America.
For those who feel pain of＿＿＿＿ 36about not having breakfast, ＿＿＿＿37, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years ＿＿＿＿ 38that, for adults especially, there may be nothing ＿＿＿＿ 39with omitting breakfast. "Going ＿＿＿＿ 40breakfast does not affect ＿＿＿＿41. "Said Arnold E. Bendoer, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London,＿＿＿＿42does giving people breakfast improve performance.
＿＿＿43evidence relating breakfast to better health or＿＿＿44 performances is surprisingly inadequate, and most of the recent work involves children, not＿＿＿45"The literature," says one researcher, Dr. Ernesto Pollitt at the University of Texas, "is poor. "
26. A．a(chǎn)bout
B．into
C．up
D．from
27. A．start
S．end
C．morning
D．begin
28. A．said
B．believed
C．reported
D．told
29. A．a(chǎn)fter
B．before
C．when
D．a(chǎn)s
30. A．some
B．a(chǎn)ny
C．no
D．a(chǎn)ll
31. A．despite
B．in spite
C．though
D．however
32. A．brunch
B．breakfast
C．lunch
D．supper
33. A．a(chǎn)vailable
B．used
C．got
D．estimated
34. A．with
S．a(chǎn)t
C．by
D．from
35. A．from
B．a(chǎn)ccording to
C．through
D．out of
36. A．guilt
B．happiness
C．sadness
D．eagerness
37. A．however
B．therefore
C．whereas
D．but
38. A．indicate
B．report
C．a(chǎn)nnounce
D．declare
39. A．wrong
B．right
C．correct
D．incorrect
40. A．without
B．with
C．from
D．out of
41. A．performance
B．health
C．heart
D．brain
42. A．not
B．neither
C．either
D．nor
43. A．Science
B．Scientist
C．Scientific
D．Scientists
44. A．better
B．good
C．well
D．worse
45. A．people
B．men
C．humans
D．a(chǎn)dults
參考譯文
所有的美國(guó)人從小就被灌輸?shù)囊粋�(gè)信念是：早飯吃好對(duì)健康很重要。我們一直被告誡在每天的開(kāi)始吃早飯是十分必要的，這就好像是在旅程開(kāi)始前在家用車(chē)?yán)锛訚M油一樣。
可是，很多人仍然不喜歡早上吃東西。不管人們?cè)鯓有麄鞴膭?lì)，他們還是不吃早飯。據(jù)美國(guó)駐中國(guó)的市場(chǎng)研究機(jī)構(gòu)現(xiàn)有的最近幾年的數(shù)據(jù)顯示，在1978年到l983年之間，不吃早餐的人數(shù)上升了33％，即從880萬(wàn)人上升到1，170萬(wàn)人。
然而，仍然有好消息給那些因不吃早飯而有愧疚感的人。過(guò)去幾年的研究表明，不吃早飯并不會(huì)產(chǎn)生不良后果，對(duì)成年人尤其如此。曾就職于倫敦伊麗莎白女王學(xué)院營(yíng)養(yǎng)學(xué)系的阿諾德•E•本杜爾教授指出：“不吃早飯并不會(huì)影響人們的表現(xiàn)，”吃早飯也不會(huì)使人們表現(xiàn)得更好。
關(guān)于吃早飯有益健康或是使人表現(xiàn)更好的科學(xué)證據(jù)極其不足，而且大部分研究都是關(guān)于兒童而不是成年人的。其中一位研究人員，得克薩斯州立大學(xué)的歐內(nèi)斯圖•波利特說(shuō)：“這些文獻(xiàn)證據(jù)不足。”
