Question

A fad diet is a diet that suddenly becomes popular，usually because it promises people that they will lose a lot of weight overnight.Although dieters may really show weight loss from a fad diet，they will almost certainly get back the weight if their usual eating habits (习惯) remain unchanged.Moreover，fad diets continuously call for special products of questionable value or for “health foods” that may cost twice as much as supermarket foods.Worse yet，certain fad diets don’t include nutrients (营养) good for health.People have been known to become very ill as a result of following medically unhealthy diets.

The worse fact of fad diets，though，is that they keep people who are over­weight or sick from receiving the medical care that they truly need.

60．The word “fad” in the first sentence means________.

A．new                                                   B．wonderful

C．popular quickly                                   D．loved by people

61．In the writer’s opinion，fad diets________.

A．are very helpful                                   B．are not healthy diet

C．won’t cost much                                D．include lots of nutrients

62．A fad dieter has to________.

A．spend more money                              B．lose much weight

C．keep his usual eating habits                   D．go to doctors very often

63．The last paragraph tells us________.

A．that fad dieters are often overweight

B．how fad dieters get sick

C．fad dieters need medical care if they are overweight or sick

D．overweight or sick fad dieter can’t get medical care easily

Answer 1

60．C　第一句解释了fad diet的意思。

61．B　作者写这篇短文的目的是向读者分析a fad diet的真实情况。

62．A　根据“cost twice as much as supermarket foods”可知。

63．D　fad diet使得需要医疗护理的过度胖人或病人不去看病而依靠fad diet。