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.

答案与解析

1. 答案：insurances — insurers
试题分析：本题为名词误用 。
详细解答：文中指的是健康保险公司insurer ，而非抽象意义的保险insurance。

2. 答案：and — or
试题分析：本题为连词误用。
详细解答：文中的obese和overweight是两个表示体重超标的形容词，前者表示“过分肥胖的（有病态的）”，后者表示“超重的”，程度轻些，两种状态只能选其一，故用or。

3. 答案：More — Other
试题分析：本题为逻辑错误 。
详细解答：根据句子的意思：除医院提供的一些减肥的项目之外，几乎没有其他可供选择的途径，所以选用“除……之外”other than，而不是“比……多”more than。

4. 答案：∧the — to
试题分析：本题为缺词错误 。
详细解答：contribute是一个不及物动词，与介词to搭配使用，表示“有助于，促成，导致 ……”。

5. 答案：∧help — that或help — helping
试题分析：本题为从句误用 。
详细解答：关系代词that在句中作限定性定语从句的主语，不能省略，否则句子不完整。或者也可以使用help 的非谓语动词形式，作为补充说明。

6. 答案：the — /
试题分析：本题为冠词误用 。
详细解答：句中的new approaches没有特指哪些新方法，上文也没有提到过，因此是泛指，不需要用定冠词 。

7. 答案：for — on
试题分析：本题为介词误用 。
详细解答：test sth. on sb. 是固定搭配，表示在某人身上做试验 。

8. 答案：lose — losing
试题分析：本题为非谓语动词误用 。
详细解答：have a difficult time doing sth. 表示在……方面经历了一段艰难时期，是固定搭配。

9. 答案：maybe — may be
试题分析：本题为副词误用 。
详细解答：本句缺少谓语动词，应该使用情态动词may，而非副词maybe，否则句子不完整。

10. 答案：gain — lose
试题分析：本题为逻辑错误 。
详细解答：本文的主旨是要帮助肥胖人士减肥lose pounds，从而使身体更加健康，而非增加体重gain pounds，与本意不符。

重点、难点词汇

1. screen 测试 、筛查（动词 ）

2. proven 被验证的