We usually eat lunch at home, why don't we make a _______ to eat at the restaurant.

Whether at home or in a restaurant, meals in Brazil are sacred(神圣的) ; a time to eat, but also to share precious moments with family and friends. Now, here's a Brazilian custom I miss enormously: a decent, sit-down, leisurely-paced lunch and/or dinner. To this day, I have to keep reminding myself, "what's the big hurry？ " and I confess that one of the things I look forward to, when I go to Brazil, is the "family" meal. We have a joke that, if you see people sitting around a table in the US, having lunch for longer than 1/2 hour, it must be a business lunch. And also, sitting at your desk and eating lunch while you work is incomprehensible to most Brazilians, who leave their offices to eat with their colleagues and friends in restaurants and cafes. You guess, lunch is usually a more substantial meal than in the U.S.

(68) For lunch and, depending on the location, also dinner, Brazilians have wonderful, inexpensive restaurants where home-style. meals are sold by kilo. You just pile the food on your plate and someone will weigh it for you. The same goes for desserts. You order drinks from your waiter and pay him at the end of your meal.

Dinner is served much later than in the U. S. In the big cities, children are a common sight in restaurants at night, since Brazilians will take their kids out to dinner at all hours. As a result of this and the traditional Sunday lunches, Brazilian kids learn table manners at an early age. For many of my Brazilian friends, dinner is a lighter meal of bread, cheese and cold cuts. So expect either type of meal.

In Brazil, people usually have meals______.

A．in a hurry at restaurants

B．in a leisurely manner

C．at their desk in the office

D．for less than 1/2 hour

A.When do you go back to school after lunch

B.When do you usually eat dinner

C.What time is it

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Eggs are my favorite food. I like them (21) , hard-boiled, scrambled, or poached. 1 eat eggs for (22) , lunch, and dinner. I eat eggs here, there, and everywhere!

Eggs taste great. You can eat them by (23) or as part of any meal. Eggs are (24) used as an ingredient in many prepared foods. Can you think of any foods that contain (25) ？

Eggs are really a perfect food. They are (26) in most of the nutrients we need to maintain good (27) . When a baby chicken develops (28) an egg, the egg (29) and yolk are the only foods they need.

Many people believe that eggs are (30) . They point out that eggs contain a very high amount of

cholesterol(胆固醇). Too (31) of one kind of cholesterol in our blood can cause he-art disease.

There is no evidence that eggs (32) the harmful cholesterol in our blood. When we eat foods that are

(33) in cholesterol, our bodies make (34) of it to balance, or adjust.

If you want to enjoy a tasty and healthy food, eat plenty of (35) .

21.

A. fried

B. cooked

C. eaten

D. decorated

A．a chemical in a food cannot be filtered out by the kidney unless it enters the bloodstream first

B．the kidney functions i nsuch a way that it can filter out the waste materials in the bloodstream with great rapidity

C．people who ate asparagus can usually notice its characteristic sell when passing urine later

D．the kidney is quick to utilize the chemicals in the food we eat

_1_ about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junk food. We're _2_ with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity（肥胖）. Perhaps the _3_ to this ambivalence（矛盾情结）lies in our history. The first Europeans came to this continent searching for new spices but went in vain. The first cash crop（经济作物）wasn't eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition, intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouraging more _4_ ways of doing it.

The immigrant experience, too, has been one of inharmony. Do as Romans do means eating what “real Americans” eat, but our nation's food has come to be _5_ by imports—pizza, say, or hot dogs. And some of the country's most treasured cooking comes from people who arrived here in shackles.

Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nation's defining struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sitins at southern lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat for political.

But strong opinions have not brought _7_ . Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become _8_ of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain.

The _9_ in food is still prosperous in the American consciousness. It's no coincidence, then, that the first Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondage（束缚）. It's what we eat—and how we _10_ it with friends, family, and strangers—that help define America as a community today.

A. answer

I. creative

B. result

J. belief

C. share

K. suspicious

D. guilty

L. certainty

E. constant

M. obsessed

F. defined

N. identify

G. vanish

O. ideals

H. adapted

So when Fred comes home in the evening, the fish is not there, and his wife (23) says, "Oh, your cat eats it." And she gives him some bread for his (24) . Fred gets very angry. He takes the cat and his wife to the shop near his home and weighs the cat. Then he turns to his wife and says, "My fish weighs one kilo, this cat weighs one kilo, too. If my fish is here, you see, then (25 ) is my cat？"

A. fish B. supper C. friends D. always E. where

The best example of how associations influence eating is that we often eat not because we're hungry but because it's "lunchtime," because foods smell good, or because our friends are eating.

More evidence that associations influence eating comes from marketing and advertising pressures to sell foods by offering huge servings. For example, movie theaters offer an extra large box of popcorn(爆玉米花)，which, at almost 900 calories, is equivalent to a major meal. Health professionals warn that as children, adolescents(青少年),and adults learn to prefer large portions and tasty foods high in fat,sugar,and calories,there has been a corresponding increase in rates of being overweight(from 25% in 1988 to 34% in 1998).Researchers are especially concerned about the continued rates of overweight and obesity(肥胖) in children since childhood obesity is very difficult to treat and an obese child has a high probability of becoming an obese adult with the associated health risks we discussed earlier.

Health professionals suggest that to avoid future increases in rates of overweight and obesity, we need to try hard to forget many of our food associations, which primarily involves decreasing size of food portions, increasing levels of activity to burn off excess calories.

26.The influence of food association can be seen clearly from the example that we often eat NOT

because________.

[A]it's time for lunch

[B]we're hungry

[C]foods smell delicious

[D]our friends are eating

27.From the passage we can infer that the "serving" in the second paragraph most

probably means________.

[A]an amount of food

[B]a special service

[C]a meal

[D]some calories

28.According to the author, because of an unhealthy food preference, the increase in rates of being

overweight was almost _____________ during the ten years from 198 to 1998.

[A]10 per cent [B]20 per cent

[C]30 per cent [D]40 per cent

29.According to the passage, an obese child is _____________.

[A]less at risk of heart diseases

[B]healthily fat

[C]very hard to get along with

[D]more likely to become an obese adult

30.In order to avoid future increases in rates of overweight and obesity, we need to do

a11 the following EXCEPT _____________.

[A1make an effort to forget our food association

[B]eat less high-fat food

[C]do more exercise to consume excess calories

[D]eat less food

(1). Why can't Tom park in the staff car park？

A、Because he does not work here.

B、Because he is not a manager.

C、Because he is a new comer.

(2). Which of the following is true？

A、Tom can park his car behind the building.

B、Tom can use the manager's car.

C、David can help Tom to park his car in the staff car park.

(3). When can Tom go to have his lunch？

A、Before 12:30.

B、After 12:30.

C、After 1:00.

(4). What can Tom do in the office？

A、Eat and drink.

B、Smoke.

C、Phone abroad.

(5). Where can everyone go to smoke？

A、In the car park.

B、In the coffee lounge.

C、In the café near the office building.