上海市最新高考英语阅读理解专题练习(附答案).docx

上海市最新 高考英语 阅读理解专题练习（附答案） 一、高中英语阅读理解 阅读理解 Do you know that junk food isnt healthy? Of course you do! Do you eat it anyway? Of course you do! But a new study shows teaching adolescents about the ways food companies fool them into thinking junk food is cool can encourage kids to fight back ― y eating heaIthier. The pul I of junk food can be super-strong. Its designed to tasty; which makes eating we I I one of the great health chaIlenges of our t ime. Everyone from doctors to the government has been trying to handle it. Yet we keep eating junk food. Professor Chr i stopher Bryan says. Tood companies want you to want junk food H They spend mi I I ions of dollars coming up with new ways toA promote junk food consumption. They hire scientists to make new junk food almost irresistible. They might do this, for example, by adding more sugar. Rats fed junk food for six weeks wiI I even walk across a floor that gives them electric shocks just to get more of such food. Food ads often make unhealthy junk food seem healthy by featuring professional athletes, fit- looking pop stars and smi I ing, act i ve teens. We thought when the students learned this, it would matter to them,” Bryan says. He worked with 8th graders at a Texas school. Half of them got a lesson Bryan created. It focused on the ways junk food is advertised, or marketed. A second group received lessons that focused on health. These lessons informed students junk food is had, and that foods I ike apples or carrots are a better choice. The students learned a bad diet can lead to ma jor we i ght gain, and that being overwe i ght puts peopIe at risk for serious d i seases. They a I so I earned how eat i ng we I I now can keep you heaI thy when you* re older. After the lessons, the kids in both groups were asked how they felt about junk food. Most didnt have positive feelings about these unhealthy foods. Why does the author mention the questions in paragraph 1? To express his doubts about junk food. B. To promote the id