One day last September, as Britney Spears was about to board a flight to Los Angeles from London, a blue bottle fell out of her purse. She quickly put it back in, but not before the camera recorded the event. Neither Spears nor her spokesman was willing to comment on the contents of the bottle, but the next morning London’s Daily Express published a page of pictures under the headline “EXCLUSIVE: POP PRINCESS SPOTTED AT AIRPORT WITH POT OF SLIMMING TABLETS.” Spears was apparently carrying Zantrex-3, one of the most popular weight-loss pills now sold in the United States. The pill, which is sold at about fifty dollars for a month’s supply, contains a huge amount of caffeine, some green tea, and three common South American herbs that also act as stimulants (興奮劑). It hit the U.S. market last March and has had a success that would be hard to overstate. Millions of bottles have been sold, and during the Christmas season it was displayed in the windows of the nation’s largest chain of vitamin shops, G.N.C. (It is so highly sought after that many of the stores keep it in locked counters.) Zantrex-3 is also sold at CVS, RiteAid, Wal-Mart, and other chains, and over the telephone and on the Internet. If you type “Zantrex” into Google, more than a hundred thousand pieces of information about it will appear. At any moment, there are scores of people sell it on eBay.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the success story of Zantrex-3, however, is that it is far from unique. There are hundreds of similar products on the market today, and they are bought by millions of Americans. And though Zantrex’s producer makes some exciting statements (“the most advanced weight control compound (化合物)period”), so do the people who sell Stacker 2 and Anorex along with those who sell Carb Eliminator and Fat Eliminator. Almost all of these compounds suggest that they can help people lose weight and regain lost energy, and often without diet, exercise, or any other effort.
51. Britney Spears is a / an______.
A. dancer          B. singer           C. athlete         D. chemist
52. Which of the following is also a kind of weight-loss pill?
A. CVS           B. Rite Aid          C. Wal-Mart       D. Anorex
53. The underlined part of the sentence in the first paragraph is most likely similar in meaning to ______.
A. it is difficult to say how successful Zantrex-3 is
B. you can’t overstate the success of Zantrex-3
C. you can’t think too highly of the success of Zantrex-3
D. Zantrex-3 is not very successful
54. From the second paragraph we know that ______ .
A. Zantrex-3 is one of the successful weight-loss pills on the US market
B. Zantrex-3 is the most successful weight-loss pills on the US market
C. Zantrex-3 is the only weight-loss pill on the US market
D. there are five kinds of weight-loss pills on the US market
55. The text mainly tells us ______.
A. when Britney Spears was found taking weight-loss pills with her
B. how Zantrex-3 became successful in the USA
C. weight-loss pills are very popular in the USA
D. Zantrex-3 is forbidden to be sold on the US market
51-55 BDCAC
51. 答案B。細(xì)節(jié)信息題。從第1段的大寫部分“…POP PRINCESS SPOTTED AT AIRPORT WITH POT OF SLIMMING TABLETS.”可以知道B選項(xiàng)是正確答案。
52. 答案D。細(xì)節(jié)信息題。根據(jù)第1段的“Zantrex-3 is also sold at CVS, RiteAid, Wal-Mart, and other chains,”以及第2段的“…so do the people who sell Stacker 2 and Anorex along with those who sell Carb Eliminator and Fat Eliminator.”可以知道D選項(xiàng)是正確答案。
53. 答案C。理解句子結(jié)構(gòu)及推測(cè)詞義題。從It hit the U.S. market last March and has had a success that would be hard to overstate. 的前半部分可以知道Zantrex-3是美國(guó)市場(chǎng)很暢銷的減肥類商品；根據(jù)構(gòu)詞法可以知道后半部分的overstate有“夸張、夸大事實(shí)”的意思，而would be hard to overstate可以理解為“難以夸張、夸大”的意思，因此劃線部分的意思可以直譯為“難以夸大/夸張的成功”或理解為“怎么夸張都不過份的成功”，C選項(xiàng)所含有的句型can not…too亦是此意。
54. 答案A。從第2段的1、2、3句可以知道A選項(xiàng)是正確答案，其他選項(xiàng)均與文章的信息不一致。
55. 答案C。A選項(xiàng)只包含了文章的部分信息；B選項(xiàng)側(cè)重Zantrex-3獲得成功的方式，而文章并沒有這方面的信息；D選項(xiàng)與文章中的信息相反；從整體來看，文章是以Zantrex-3為引子，引出減肥或瘦身類商品當(dāng)今在美國(guó)很流行的話題，即第1段是引入，第2段開始切入主題，第2段的第2句可以看做是主題句。C選項(xiàng)與主題句的意思一致，因此應(yīng)該是該題的答案。
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