?As one of the many outgrowths of the sweeping federal health care

law, health insurances and employers must now pay the cost of screening 1. ___________

children for obesity and providing them with appropriate counseling.

With about one in three children in America obese and overweight,2. ___________

the need for such programs is clear. But experts say, creating them will

be challenging. More than intensive hospital-based programs, few proven 3. ___________

models exist for helping children and adolescents achieve and maintain a

healthier weight, and researchers do not even fully understand the factors

that contributed the rapid rise in childhood obesity in recent years.4. ___________

While there are many community efforts aimed at getting every child

to eat better and exercise more, including Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move”

initiative, there is also growing demand for programs help children who 5. ___________

are already seriously overweight. WellPoint and the UnitedHealth Group,

another large insurer, are experimenting with the new approaches, and 6. ___________

even Weight Watchers says it is working to develop a program for children

and teenagers. Drug companies and medical device makers are also testing

some products for children. 7. ___________

Adults have a difficult enough time lose weight, and the issues are 8. ___________

even more complicated with children and teenagers, experts say. Children

are still growing, and the goal of any program maybe to help them grow 9. ___________

into a healthier weight rather than to actually gain pounds. Experts also10. __________

say that to be successful, programs need to focus on the family as a whole,

changing what everybody eats and how much time they are all active, not

sitting in front of a computer screen or television.

答案與解析

1. 答案：insurances — insurers
試題分析：本題為名詞誤用 。
詳細解答：文中指的是健康保險公司insurer ，而非抽象意義的保險insurance。

2. 答案：and — or
試題分析：本題為連詞誤用。
詳細解答：文中的obese和overweight是兩個表示體重超標的形容詞，前者表示“過分肥胖的（有病態(tài)的）”，后者表示“超重的”，程度輕些，兩種狀態(tài)只能選其一，故用or。

3. 答案：More — Other
試題分析：本題為邏輯錯誤 。
詳細解答：根據句子的意思：除醫(yī)院提供的一些減肥的項目之外，幾乎沒有其他可供選擇的途徑，所以選用“除……之外”other than，而不是“比……多”more than。

4. 答案：∧the — to
試題分析：本題為缺詞錯誤 。
詳細解答：contribute是一個不及物動詞，與介詞to搭配使用，表示“有助于，促成，導致 ……”。

5. 答案：∧help — that或help — helping
試題分析：本題為從句誤用 。
詳細解答：關系代詞that在句中作限定性定語從句的主語，不能省略，否則句子不完整?；蛘咭部梢允褂胔elp 的非謂語動詞形式，作為補充說明。

6. 答案：the — /
試題分析：本題為冠詞誤用 。
詳細解答：句中的new approaches沒有特指哪些新方法，上文也沒有提到過，因此是泛指，不需要用定冠詞 。

7. 答案：for — on
試題分析：本題為介詞誤用 。
詳細解答：test sth. on sb. 是固定搭配，表示在某人身上做試驗 。

8. 答案：lose — losing
試題分析：本題為非謂語動詞誤用 。
詳細解答：have a dif?cult time doing sth. 表示在……方面經歷了一段艱難時期，是固定搭配。

9. 答案：maybe — may be
試題分析：本題為副詞誤用 。
詳細解答：本句缺少謂語動詞，應該使用情態(tài)動詞may，而非副詞maybe，否則句子不完整。

10. 答案：gain — lose
試題分析：本題為邏輯錯誤 。
詳細解答：本文的主旨是要幫助肥胖人士減肥lose pounds，從而使身體更加健康，而非增加體重gain pounds，與本意不符。

重點、難點詞匯

1. screen 測試 、篩查（動詞 ）

2. proven 被驗證的