2014届高考英语阅读理解专题测试卷 (6).doc

阅读理解(共 20 小题;每小题 2 分,满分 40分) 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A 、B、C和 D) 中,选出最佳选项。【广东省 2012 届高三考前冲刺卷(六)】 A When doctors urge overweight kids to pick up more activities , reading probably isn ’t what they have in a new study by fatness researchers at Duke University finds that the simple act of reading — depending on the choice of material — can cause weight loss in teenage girls. The study ’s experimental group included 31 fat girls aged 9 to 13, who took part in the Healthy Lifestyles Program at Duke Children ’s girls read a novel called Lake Rescue , whose protagonist ( 主人公) is an overweight teenager who struggles with low self - esteem , feelings of loneliness and teasing because of her group of 33 girls read a different book called Charlotte in Paris , which did not have an overweight character , and another group of 17 girls read neither book. At the end of the six - month experiment , all the girls who read books had lost weight , but the girls who read Lake Rescue lost lowered their body mass index (BMI) by , compared with in the Charlotte group , an average increase among the nonreaders. The idea behind the study , says Dr Sarah Armstrong , director of Healthy Lifestyles , was to find a way to encourage the girls without adopting the restrictive and often authoritative voice of so many other nutrition and diet Rescue