“ I’d like to be at a healthier weight , ” a friend told me . “ But we just don’t have the money to buy expensive diet foods and there isn’t enough money to join a gym .” Many people feel that way—that a healthy diet and exercise plan is out of reach because of their high cost . Don’t lose hope ! We’ll be looking at ways to make healthy choices without spending too much money .
First you don’t need to buy the expensive pre-prepared “ diet foods . ” Back in the early 1970s when I started housekeeping , 90% of the food I bought was ingredients . Very few things were preprocessed（预处理的）. Now 90% of the food you find in the store is quick food . That’s a bad thing .
Quick foods like boxed “ just add hamburger ” meals have had the fiber removed to make them faster to prepare . Take a look at the label on that box . It often has low numbers listed under “ fiber ” because fiber takes longer to digest . If the low fiber meal is digested , the result is that your body begins to store fat . Besides , your body is short of nutrients（营养物质）. You will be driven to eat more to try to make up for the low quality of the food you are eating .
And then there are the chemicals the producers add to the quick meals to make them palatable . If not , the stuff would taste like cardboard and you wouldn’t enjoy it . However , these chemicals certainly aren’t good for your health .
What’s the answer ? Buy whole ingredients and give up the expensive , low nutrition , processed foods . Do the cooking yourself and you will have control over what is in your food —and it will cost less , too .
小题1:People who find it hard to get a healthier weight think .
A．they had too much diet foods
B．they didn’t make a detailed plan
C．they have no time to do exercise in gym
D．they can’t afford diet foods and to exercise in gym小题2: The author doesn’t like quick food mainly because .
A．it contains too much fat
B．it makes people eat less
C．it has low fiber
D．it takes longer to digest小题3:The underlined word “ palatable ” in Paragraph 4 probably means “ ”.
A．fresh
B．delicious
C．healthy
D．simple小题4:The author suggests in the text that people should .
A．control the amount of food
B．eat more processed foods
C．cook food for themselves
D．choose cheap ingredients小题5:Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage ? （①="Paragraph" 1,
②="Paragraph" 2 ,…⑤="Paragraph" 5）
A．①/②③④/⑤
B．①②/③④/⑤
C．①②③/④/⑤
D．①/②③/④⑤
