Story 6: Experiencing What You Eat
Q1: This selection is mainly about…
✔ How eating mindfully can help people make healthier food choices.
Q2: The term 'mindfulness' refers mainly to…
✔ Being fully aware of experiences in the present moment.
Q3: The author's tone in the excerpt can best be described as…
✔ Informative.
Q4: Compared with the non-mindful group, the mindfulness group showed…
✔ Lower blood sugar (glucose) • Greater weight loss.
Q5: Frederick Hecht's study suggests that mindfulness exercises…
✔ May help people maintain a healthy weight.
Q6: Hecht's study showed mindfulness patients improved cholesterol levels by…
✔ Increasing HDL (good cholesterol).
Q7: Two key elements of Kristeller's MB-EAT study were…
✔ Learning to eat mindfully • Doing mini-meditations before eating.
Q8: Frankie Engelking found that mindful eating can help students…
✔ Discover something new about foods they eat all the time.
Q9: Students who spent 15 minutes doing a mindfulness exercise ate…
✔ 25 percent fewer calories — showing mindful eating helps people avoid overeating.
Story 7: Martha's Food Blog
Q1: What is the main idea of this selection?
✔ Small ideas can influence people all over the world through the internet.
Q2: Why did Martha first start writing a blog?
✔ To get experience in writing like a journalist.
Q3: If Martha had written her school lunch reviews only for her school…
✔ She would not have enough readers to raise money for Mary's Meals.
Q4: What evidence shows that all of Martha's experiences shaped her blog?
✔ Some of her classmates were mean to her.
Q5: What educational benefit resulted from the new school kitchen?
✔ More children attend school every day.
Q6: How did Martha feel when her school said she could no longer blog?
✔ Disappointed.
Q7: Of Martha's categories for comparing meals, which were most important?
✔ Health and Taste.
Q8: How does the author show how popular Martha's blog became?
✔ By reporting the number of visits and donations.
Q9: Place the following events in order:
✔ 1) Martha launches a blog about her school meals → 2) Martha's father tweets a link → 3) Martha raises
money for a school kitchen → 4) Martha goes to Africa.
Q10: What does the excerpt tell about children of Lirangwe Primary School?
✔ They do not have access to running water in their homes.
Q11: Which was most likely a challenge for Martha in keeping up with her blog?
✔ Finding time in between her other activities to write.