文档介绍：英语听力万花筒 16 I Go Without my Breakfast
Today's podcast is about breakfast. Probably most people think of “breakfast" as t too much cholesterol in my blood So, later today, I have to go to have a blood test. The nurse will stick an enormous needle into my arm, and take out several litres of blood, and send the blood away to a laboratory to be tested The laboratory will of course send back a report to say that my blood cholesterol is absolutely wonderful, and that they have never seen such magnificent blood before. But - and this is the terrible bit - the blood test is what the doctor calls a "fasting blood test”. That means that I must not eat anything for at least 12 hours before the test. So, no breakfast. Now, it would be sensible to have a fasting blood test early in the morning, so that I do not have to wait a long time to have something to eat. However; the nurse who takes the blood tests only works in the afternoon, so I cannot eat anything until about 3 o,clock. You have no idea how terrible this is. It is the middle of the morning, and I am hungry, really hungry. I cannot stop thinking about breakfast. Surely a very little bowl of muesli and one slice of toast with no marmalade would be OK. Surely a very small breakfast would not ruin the blood test. However; the nurse who does the blood tests is big and fierce, and so I stay hungry.
And now the telephone rings. It is t