六級英語考試選詞填空訓練題(一)

　　'Men and women ate less healthily on days they drank alcohol,' said Rosalind Breslow, an epidemiologist with the federal National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and lead author of the study. 'Poorer food choices on drinking days have public-health (4)__________,' she said.

　　The findings dovetail with controlled lab studies in which (5)__________ generally eat more food after consuming alcohol. Researchers suggest that alcohol may enhance 'the short-term rewarding effects' of consuming food, according to a 2010 report in the journal Physiology & Behavior that reviewed previous studies on alcohol, appetite and obesity.

　　But other studies have pointed to a different trend. Moderate drinkers gain less weight over time than either heavy drinkers or people who abstain from alcohol, particularly women, this research has shown. Moderate drinking is (6) __________having about two drinks a day for men and one for women.

　　'People who gain the least weight are moderate drinkers, regardless of [alcoholic] beverage choice,' said Eric Rimm, an associate professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard Medical School and chairman of the 2010 review of alcohol in the federal dietary (7)__________. The weight-gain difference is modest, and 'starting to drink is not a weight-loss diet,' he said.

　　The various research efforts form part of a long-standing (8)__________ about how alcohol affects people's appetites, weight and overall health. Researchers say there aren't simple answers, and suggest that individuals' metabolism, drinking patterns and gender may play a role.

　　Alcohol is 'a real wild card when it comes to weight management,' said Karen Miller-Kovach, chief scientific officer of Weight Watchers International. At seven calories per gram, alcohol is closer to fat than to carbohydrate or protein in caloric content, she said. Alcohol tends to lower restraint, she notes, causing a person to become more (9)__________ with what they're eating.

　　Research bolstering the role of moderate drinking in helping to control weight gain was published in 2004 in the journal Obesity Research. That study followed nearly 50,000 women over eight years. An earlier study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 1994, followed more than 7,000 people for 10 years and found that moderate drinkers gained less weight than nondrinkers. Studies comparing changes in waist circumference among different groups have yielded similar results.

　　Dr. Rimm said it isn't clear why moderate drinking may be (10)__________ against typical weight gain, but it could have to do with metabolic adjustments. After people drink alcohol, their heart rate increases so they burn more calories in the following hour.

　　'It's a modest amount,' he said. 'But if you take an individual that eats 100 calories instead of a glass of wine, the person drinking the glass of wine will have a slight increase in the amount of calories burned.'

　　A:indulgent

　　B:participants

　　C:debate

　　D:considered

　　E:contributes

　　F:contest

　　G:guidelines

　　H:protective

　　I:moderate

　　J:index

　　K:implications

　　L:considerate

　　M:additional

　　N:experienced

　　O:owes

　　六級英語考試選詞填空訓練題答案

　　1.E:contributes

　　2.I:moderate

　　3.M:additional

　　4.K:implications

　　5.B:participants

　　6.D:considered

　　7.G:guidelines

　　8.C:debate

　　9.A:indulgent

　　10.H:protective

　　六級英語考試選詞填空訓練題(二)

　　Nearly half the (1)__________ believes UFOs could be a (2) __________of extraterrestrial visitation.

　　A HuffPost/YouGov poll reveals that 48 percent of adults in the United States are open to the idea that alien spacecraft are observing our planet -- and just 35 percent outright (3)__________ the idea.

　　The poll was seen as vindication from the community of UFO researchers who often feel they are laughed off by government officials.

　　"It's always been intriguing to me how we act as though only kooks and quacks and little old ladies in tennis shoes believe in flying saucers. And it's never been true, at least for 30 or 40 years," said former nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, who was the original civilian investigator of the events surrounding the (4) __________Roswell, NM, UFO crash of 1947.

　　Friedman is very outspoken on the idea that some UFOs are (5)__________ controlled extraterrestrial vehicles.

　　"The believers are far more quiet, but far more on the side of reality," Friedman told The Huffington Post. "When you look at the polls, it's clear. And I see the benefit of that, (6)__________, because I've only had 11 hecklers in over 700 lectures. I've been out there, all over the place, in every state, 18 other countries, and I know that my (7) __________is more than tolerant -- they're accepting. It's been one of the things that really has kept me going."

　　In the HuffPost/YouGov poll, conducted between Sept. 6-7, 1,000 adults were asked if they either believed or didn't believe that some people have (8)__________ UFOs that have an extraterrestrial origin.

　　When YouGov offered (9)__________ the choice between "slightly disagree," "disagree" and "strongly disagree," those numbers added up to 35 percent who are skeptical of the notion that any UFOs may be alien-related.

　　However, nearly half of the adults surveyed (48 percent) resounded in the affirmative, leaving 16 percent who (10)__________ that they weren't sure on either side of the ET issue.

　　A: legendary

　　B:accept

　　C: reject

　　D: respondents

　　E: personally

　　F: implied

　　G: population

　　H: resposibility

　　I: intelligently

　　J: indicated

　　K: sign

　　L: signal

　　M: witnessed

　　N: story

　　O: audience

　　六級英語考試選詞填空訓練題答案

　　1.G:population

　　2.K:sign

　　3.C:reject

　　4.A:legendary

　　5.I:intelligently

　　6.E:personally

　　7.O:audience

　　8.M:witnessed

　　9.D:respondents

　　10.J:indicated

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