第八篇 Eat Healthy
1. Parents in the United States tend to ask their children
C. not to waste food.
2. Why do American restaurants serve large portions?
A. Because Americans associate quantity with value.
3. What happened in the 1970s?
D. The American waistline started to expand.
4. What does the survey indicate?
A. Many poor Americans want large portions.
5. Which of the following is Not true of working class Americans?
C. They don't want to be healthy eaters.
第十九篇 Prolonging Human Life
1.The writer believes that the population explosion results from
C a decrease in death rates.
2. It can be inferred from the passage that in hunting and gathering cultures
B infants could be left dead in times of starvation.
3. According to the passage, which of the following statements about retired people in the United States is true?
A Many of them have a very hard life.
4. In Paragraph 3, the phrase “ this need” refers to
D the need to take care of a sick and weak people.
5. Which of the following best describes the writer’s attitude toward most of the nursing
homes, and convalescent hospitals?
D Critical.
第二十四篇 Sleep Lets Brain File Memories
1. Which of the following statements is nearest in meaning to the sentence “To sleep. Perchance t o file?”?
A. Does brain arrange memories in useful order during sleep?
2. What is the result of the experiment with rats and mice carried out at Rutgers University?
C. Somatosensory neocortex and hippocampus work together tin memory consolidation.
3. What is the relation of memory to glucose tolerance, as is indicated by a research mentioned in paragraph 4?
D. The poorer the memory, the poorer glucose tolerance.
4. In what way is memory related to hippocampus shrinkage?
B. The more hip pocampus shrinks, the poorer one’s memory.
5. According to the last paragraph, what is the ultimate reason for going to the gym?
D. To control glucose levels.
+第三十四篇Who Want to Live Forever?
1.Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the things that living longer might
enable an individual to do?
B. Having more education.
2.Which of the following is implied in the sixth paragraph?
A. Marriages in the US today are quite unstable.
3.All of the following are possible effects living longer might have on working life
EXCEPT
B. More money would be used by employees in payment of their employees.
4.An important feature of a society in which people live a long life is that
C. it lacks the curiosity to experiment what is new
5.Which of the following best describes Callahan's attitude to anti-ageing technology ?
C. Reserved.
+第四十篇Some People Do Not Taste Salt Like Others
1. In paragraph 2, John Hayes points out that
C. many people accept low-salt tasteless food reluctantly
2. The fourth paragraph describes briefly
A. how to select subjects and what to do in the research.
3. The article argues that supertasters
B. like snack foods as saltiness is their primary flavor.
4. Which of the following applies to supertasters in terms of bitter taste?
C. They prefer high-salt cheese, which tastes less bitter.
5. What message do the last two paragraphs carry'?
A. Taste acuity is genetically determined.
第二篇 Going on a diet
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第十二篇 Dreams
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9see 10should 11in 12awoken 13day 14making 15as
*第八篇 Old And Active
1recent 2improvement3out 4learnt5 make 6 ingredient 7 beneficial 8 contributing 9 actually 10 doubled 11 facing 12 after 13 Raising 14 sense 15 roles
+第十四篇 A Health Profile
1 need to know
2 at
3 diet
4 spend
5 in
6 whether
7 To complete 8as 9 Once
10 0n 11 job 12 by 13 thought 14 in 15 benefit
+第十五篇Life Expectancy in the Last Hundred Years
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