一、阅读理解
1.At the start of nearly every doctor’s visit, chances are that you will be asked to get your weight measured. But many conversations around weight have become an obstacle, not a help, in the campaign to make people healthier. Doctors’ recommendations to drop pounds are still extremely common, even though using body size as a one-size-fits-all way can lead to ignorance of the complexity of an individual’ s particular physiology.
Many studies have shown heavier people are at higher risk for high blood pressure, diabetes and other diseases. But the big picture is not the whole picture. Researchers have identified some fat people considered to be “metabolically healthy”. However, one interesting report published in 2016 found that unhealthy thin people were twice as likely to get diabetes as healthy fat people. Clearly, although the association between being overweight and disease is very real, individual experience can vary greatly and depends on personal physiology and behavior.
Despite such findings, among the more terrible effects of weight-central health care are the increased shame experienced by the overweight. The well-reported experience of numerous fat people is that doctors often set weight loss without examining them. Research over the past two decades has shown that health professionals have negative attitudes toward fat people. Not only that but doctors’ appointments with fat patients are shorter on average, and some refuse to see these patients at all, as the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported in 2011. Such prejudiced practices keep people from regular annual exams and prevent the detection of serious hidden conditions.
To practice evidence-based medicine, doctors should stop relying on weight alone as an indicator of health and quickly setting out weight loss to treat health diseases. Instead, doctors should focus on behavioral changes to improve health outcomes. People of all sizes are entitled to evidence-based treatments and keep them healthy.
1.What is the underlined phrase “a one-size-fits-all way” in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A.An alternative way. B.A temporary way.
C.A unique solution. D.A perfect solution.
2.What can be learned from Paragraph 2?
A.Each heavy individual is at higher risk for diseases.
B.Fat people are considered to be metabolically healthy.
C.Not all fat people suffer high blood pressure or diabetes.
D.Thin people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fat ones.
3.How does the author convince us of the effects of weight-central health care?
A.By listing figures. B.By quoting opinions.
C.By giving examples. D.By making comparisons.
4.Which can be the best title of this passage?
A.Weight Shame. B.Weight Loss, Health gains.
C.Weight Effects. D.Only Weight Is Not Enough.
