Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
The festive break is fast becoming a distant memory and for many, New Year fitness regimes are too. Despite2.6m people starting diets on New Year's Day, research suggests that by the end of the week 92 percent of dieters gave up, (36) exercise and gorging on comfort food.
Findings(37) by weightloss firm XLS-Medical, suggest that the (38) majority are unsuccessful at sticking to their diets for more than five days a week. Two out of l0 dieters (39) they have their first diet relapse (退步) just four to five days in, with hunger cited as the main cause. Boredom and alcohol were (40) blamed for people failing to keep their health kick on track.
Dr. Matt Capehorn, Clinical Director of the National Obesity Forum, (41) that just one day off from dieting can undo a week's worth of hard work. He told Female First: "A healthy diet, aimed at losing llb per week, relies on saving 3500 calories a week by having 500 calories less each day." "A day off the diet should mean that you eat the correct amount, but many dieters see it as an excuse to binge (大吃大喝 ) and have thousands of calories more than they need. "
The results suggest that a (42) 590,000 could already have (43) to stick to New Year diet resolutions.
And a vast majority are unaware of the negative impact a single day off can have on their weight loss efforts.
Yet (44) it was found only 5 percent of women stick to their diets until they've (45) their target weight.
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參考譯文：
新年假期會很快成為遙遠的回憶，而對很多人來說，新年的減肥計劃也會很快被拋之腦後。調查顯示，儘管有260萬人在新年第一天開始節食，但在該星期結束時，已有92%的節食減肥者放棄，[36]不再運動。而且開始大吃大喝。
減重中心XLS醫院[37]釋出的這項調查結果表明，[38]大多數人都無法在制定節食減肥計劃的一週內堅持五天以上。五分之一的節食減肥者[39]承認自己在第四五天的時候就堅持不住了，他們提到的主要原因是飢餓。單調乏味和酒精的刺激[40]也讓他們無法堅持瘦身計劃。
國家肥胖論壇醫療主任馬特·凱普霍恩博士[4l]強調說，僅僅一天不堅持節食就會毀掉一週的努力。他告訴《女士優先》雜誌說：“健康的節食是一星期減去1磅，這需要一週內減少3500卡路里的攝取，而一天減少500卡路里的攝取即可。”“一天不節食應該意味著你攝入正確的食量，而很多節食者卻把它當做大吃大喝的理由，攝取的卡路里數量比需要的多出好幾千。”
調查結果顯示，有[42]多達59萬人可能已經[43]放棄了新年減肥計劃。而且還有很多人不清楚一天不堅持節食對其減肥計劃有何負面影響。然而[44]總的來說，僅有5%的女效能堅持到最後，直到[45]達到目標體重。
【參考答案】
36.E
語法判斷：exercise後是and，而and前後應為並列結構(又稱平行結構)，因為and後為gorging on comfortfood，所以前面也應當是現在分詞短語，因此應填入現在分詞。備選項中只有shunning是現在分詞，因此答案很明確。
語義判斷：shun：(故意或習慣地)避免;迴避，躲開。從語義上判斷也是正確的。
37.G
語法判斷：此處應為定語來修飾fmdings，後為by，而過去分詞既表示被動又可用作後置賓語，所以此處應填入過去分詞。
語義判斷：備選的過去分詞或過去式有reached、highlighted、blamed、released、lost、admitted、treated、dieted、failed，但從上下文語義判斷，意思應為：由減重中心XLS醫院釋出的調查或研究結果，所以應選擇released。
38.N
語法判斷：空格前的the是冠詞，空格後的majority是名詞，因此應當填入定語。
語義判斷：符合語法條件的詞有很多：massive、reached、highlighted、blamed、lost、admitted、treated、dieted、overall、vast、failed，而avastmajority是個近乎固定的搭配，意為“大多數”，故本題選N。
39.J
語法判斷：此句缺謂語，後接一個省略了that的'賓語從句。可作謂語的選項有reached、highlighted、blamed、lost、admitted、treated、dieted、failed，根據文章，可知只有admitted符合。
語義判斷：該句意為：五分之一的節食減肥者承認自己在第四五天的時候就堅持不住了。
40.I
語法判斷：此句主、謂、賓都不缺，而空格出現在were和blamed之間，所以應為狀語，因而應填入副詞。
