Life is to be enjoyed. There’s no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that’s even better. When people eat more healthfully, exercise, quit smoking, and manage stress better, they find that they feel so much better that it reconstructs the reason for making these changes from fear of dying to joy of living. The latest studies show that when you exercise and eat right:
YOUR BRAIN receives more blood flow and oxygen, so you become smarter and think more clearly, have more energy, and need less sleep. Two studies showed that just walking for three hours per week for only three months caused so many new neurons (神经细胞) to grow that it actually increased the size of people’s brains!
YOUR FACE receives more blood flow, so your skin glows more and wrinkles less. You look younger and more attractive. In contrast, an unhealthy diet, chronic emotional stress and smoking reduce blood flow to your face so you age more quickly. Smoking accelerates aging because nicotine causes your arteries (动脉) to narrow down, which decreases blood flow to your face and makes it wrinkle earlier. This is why smokers look years older than they really are.
YOUR GENES change. In May, a study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that changing your lifestyle changes your genes.
YOUR TELOMERES (染色体端粒) get longer. Telomeres are the ends of our chromosomes (染色体) that control how long we live. As telomeres become shorter, then cells age more quickly, thus shortening our lives.
Besides, one of the most interesting findings in the study was that the mothers’ awareness of stress was more important than what was really occurring in their lives. The researchers gave the women a questionnaire and asked them to rate on a three point scale how stressed they felt each day, and how out of control their lives felt to them. The women who were aware that they were under heavy stress had significantly shortened and damaged telomeres compared with those who felt more relaxed. On the contrary, some of the women who felt relaxed despite raising a disabled child had more normal appearing telomeres.
In other words, if you feel stressed, you are stressed; if you feel fine, you are fine.
1.Which of the following are good for lengthening one’s life, according to the passage?
① eat healthy food ② drink plenty of water ③ take exercise
④ get up early ⑤ go to sleep early ⑥ release one’s stress
A.①③⑥ B.③④⑥ C.①⑤⑥ D.①②③
2.The underlined words “your skin glows” in Paragraph 3 are closest in meaning to “your skin looks _________”.
A.white as there is plenty of sunshine
B.soft as you exercise enough
C.pink as you are healthy
D.smooth as there is much blood in it
3.In the author’s opinion, when you exercise and eat right, you will experience some changes EXCEPT _________.
A.brains becoming cleverer B.genes being changed
C.arteries turning narrower D.faces having fewer wrinkles
4.The best title for the passage would be “___________”.
A.Eat Better, Live Better B.Smoke More, Age Sooner
C.Less Stress, Fewer Diseases D.Feel Better, Live Longer
高二英语阅读选择中等难度题
[1] At some point in your life you are bound to be required to give a speech. But are you capable of having the effect on an audience that you want to have? Here are some things to keep in mind.
[2] You may think it's good to create an informal effect, or even that it' s cool to use filler words (填充词) such as “like” and “you know”. But in reality, these words add nothing, and create the danger of making you sound foolish and uninformed.
[3] Pauses can be of significant help in adding depth to your speech, but only when they are used at the right moments. Pausing suddenly and with a panicked look will just make your audience uneasy. Also, a very long silence is the last thing you need. Make sure that your pauses are nicely placed if you want to sound like a speaker who has absolute control of what he is talking about.
[4] You also need to be careful when you switch to a new idea during the course of a speech. Often speakers ________transition words such as “well”, “so”, and so on, when they move on to new ideas. My advice, however, is to avoid such words and to try to think of a way of making a transition that is unique to the topic of your speech.
[5] Finally, avoid “umming” and “ahhing” the way many people do when they give speeches. You want to sound confident and assured, and the way not to do so is to put an “urn” or an “ah” in the middle of every sentence.
1.What is the text mainly about? (No more than 8 words)
_________________________________________________________________________
2.Complete the following statement with proper words. (No more than 4 words)
It's careful to switch to ________________________ when you give a speech.
3.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words. (No more than 3 words)
__________________________________________________________________________
4.Why does the author say it' s not good to use filler words? (No more than 12 words)
______________________________________________________________________
5.What does the word "they" (paragraph 3) probably refer to? (No more than 2 words)
_________________________________________________________________________
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[1] At some point in your life you are bound to be required to give a speech. But are you capable of having the effect on an audience that you want to have? Here are some things to keep in mind.
[2] You may think it's good to create an informal effect, or even that it' s cool to use filler words (填充词) such as “like” and “you know”. But in reality, these words add nothing, and create the danger of making you sound foolish and uninformed.
[3] Pauses can be of significant help in adding depth to your speech, but only when they are used at the right moments. Pausing suddenly and with a panicked look will just make your audience uneasy. Also, a very long silence is the last thing you need. Make sure that your pauses are nicely placed if you want to sound like a speaker who has absolute control of what he is talking about.
[4] You also need to be careful when you switch to a new idea during the course of a speech. Often speakers ________such as “well”, “so”, and so on, when they move on to new ideas. My advice, however, is to avoid such words and to try to think of a way of making a tradition that is unique to the topic of your speech.
[5] Finally, avoid “umming” and “ahhing” he way many people do when they give speeches. You want to sound confident and assured, and the way not to do so is to put an “urn” or an “ah” in the middle of every sentence.
1.What is the text mainly about? (No more than 8 words)
_________________________________________________________________________
2.Complete the following statement with proper words. (No more than 3 words)
It's careful to switch to ________________________ when you give a speech.
3.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words. (No more than 5 words)
__________________________________________________________________________
4.Why does the author say it' s not good to use filler words? (No more than 12 words)
_______________________________________________________________________
5.What does the word "they" (paragraph 3) probably refer to? (No more than 2 words)
_________________________________________________________________________
高二英语其他题中等难度题查看答案及解析
---Can you ask him to give up the foolish idea?
---_____ no point in doing so—he’ll never change his mind.
A. It is B. It has C. There is D. There has
高二英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析
There is no ______ in trying to talk him into joining us. He enjoys being alone.
A. doubt B. wonder C. hope D. point
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
With many major economic problems________ to be solved, there is no point predicting the growth rate of this year now.
A. remaining B. remained
C. have remained D. having remained
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
Human life is everywhere a ____ in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed..
A. case B.condition C. position D. state
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
With many major economic problems ______ to be addressed, there is no point ______the growth rate of this year now.
A. remained; evaluating B. remaining; to evaluate
C. remaining; evaluating D. remained; evaluating
高二英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析
Human life is everywhere a ______ in which much is to be endured and little
to be enjoyed.
A. case B.condition C. position D. state
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
There is no point ________ time ________ with him.
A. to spend; to argue B. in spending; arguing
C. to spend; arguing D. in spending; to argue
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech．At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned．Fortunately, the moments are usually not obvious to the listeners. Why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser．When such moments occur, don’t worry about them, Just continue as if nothing happened．
Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that don’t really matter. If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech – “ I have a dream”, you may notice that he stumble（结巴）his words twice during the speech．Most likely, however, you don’t remember．Why? Because you were fixing your attention on is message rather than on his way of speech-making. People care a lot about making mistakes in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition．But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performer. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that express the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly．Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speakers’ attractiveness by making him more human．
As you work on your speech, don’t worry about being imperfect．Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely．
1.
The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will ___________．
A．be smarter than you B．notice your mistakes
C．do better than you D．know what you are talking about
2.
You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because ___________．
A．your attention is on the content
B．you don’t fully understand the speech
C．you don’t know what the speaker plans to say
D．you find the way of speech-making more important
3.
It can be inferred from the passage that ___________．
A．giving a speech is like giving a performance
B．one to two mistakes in a speech may not be bad
C．the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made
D．the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be
4.
What would be the best title of the passage?
A．How to Be a Perfect Speaker
B．How to Make a Perfect Speech
C．Don’t Expect a Perfect Speech
D．Don’t Expect Mistakes in a Speech
高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析