高中英语阅读练习一
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Smoking contributes to so many cancers, diseases and deaths. The costs to individuals, families and society are enormous.
That’s why the next community Healthy Living Project focuses on smoking and tobacco. A “Healthy Living Today, Not Tomorrow” community project started last fall that focused on healthy eating and physical activity.
Starting today, the community will report on smoking and its related issues. Every Wednesday—and other times from now until February—we will provide stories on everything from smoking cessation (停止) to second-hand smoke.
The series of stories will be broken down into five stages—looking at the costs and consequences of smoking and the addiction, smoking cessation, the different age groups of smokers, the impact of second-hand smoke, smoking policies in public places and workplaces and prevent teens from starting in the first place.
OK, I know there are smokers’ thoughts, “Just leave me alone”, “We’re always treated badly or at least picked on” and “Besides, we have a right to smoke at any place we want; we have rights”.
The series is not an attempt to “pick on” smokers, but an opportunity for a community discussion and offer support for smokers. It is a serious attempt to look at smoking—the addiction and the consequences.
The Healthy Living Together Project will be successful only if we have the support from input of smokers. We ask smokers to become involved – let us know how they feel and how we can help.
66. What can be the proper title for the passage?
A. For your health: we want to hear from smokers
B. Five stages of the Health Living Project
C. Healthy Living Project focuses on smoking
D. How to help children starting to use tobacco
67. “Healthy Living Today, Not Tomorrow” mainly concerns ______.
A. smoking and related issues
B. smoking cessation
C. results of smoking and addiction
D. healthy eating and physical activity
68. We may infer from the passage that some smokers ______.
A. have a right to smoke at any place they want
B. are complaining about being prevented from smoking
C. are being helped to quit smoking by the community
D. are being treated badly when they are smoking
69. Whether the healthy Living Together Project would succeed mainly depends on _____ .
A. doctors’ contributions
B. the work of the community
C. smokers’ support
D. the support of the media
70. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Smoking affects patients greatly.
B. Stopping smoking can cure any disease.
C. Many cancers and diseases are related to smoking.
D. Smoking costs a person much money.
D
Aging brains, even in the middle years, fall into what’s called the default mode(默认模式), during which the mind wanders off and begin daydreaming. Given all this, the question arises, can an old brain learn and then remember what it learns?
Over the past years, scientists have looked deeper into how brains age and confirmed that they continue to develop through and beyond middle age. Many longheld views, including the one that 40 percent of brain cells are lost, have been overturned. What is stuffed(填满)into your head may not have disappeared but has simply been stored.
Recently, researchers have found even more positive news. The brain, as it goes through middle age, gets better at recognizing the central idea, the big picture. If kept in good shape, the brain can continue to build pathways that help its owner recognize patterns and, as a consequence, see significance and even solutions much faster than a young person can. The trick is finding ways to keep brain connections in good condition and to grow more of them.
“There’s a place for information,” says Kathleen Taylor, a professor at St. Mary’s College of California, “We need to know stuff. But we need to move beyond that and challenge our perception of the world. If you always hang around with those you agree with and read things that agree with what you already know, you’re not going to wrestle with your established brain connections.”
Such stretching is exactly what scientists say best keeps a brain in tune: get out of the comfort zone to push and nourish your brain. Do anything from learning a foreign language to taking a different route to work.
71. What’s the function of the first paragraph?
A. To show the main idea.
B. To arouse the readers’ interest.