About a third of all common cancers in the United States, China and Britain could be prevented each year if people ate healthier food, drank less alcohol and exercised more, health experts said on Friday.
Reports from the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) suggest that making simple lifestyle changes could prevent some 40 percent of breast cancers alone in Britain and the United States, as well as tens of thousands of stomach cancers.
“Even in 2011, people are dying unnecessarily from cancers that could be prevented through keeping a healthy weight, diet, physical activity and other lifestyle factors,” said a WCRF medical and scientific adviser.
WCRF findings are supported by World Health Organization (WHO) reports, which say regular exercise can prevent many diseases such as cancers and heart diseases.
Cancer is a leading cause of death around the world and its incidence(發(fā)病率) is rising. Each year around 12.7 million people discover they have cancer and 7.6 million people die from some form of the disease. There are about 200 known types of cancer.
Rachel Thompson, the WCRF’s head of science, said that while the message was simple — that not smoking, eating good food and being a healthy weight can help ward off many cancers — it was still a difficult one to get across.
The WHO says adults should do at least 150 minutes of exercise a week. This could be done by walking for 30 minutes five times per week or by cycling to work every day.
Peter Baldini, head of the World Lung Foundation, also called on all governments to introduce smoke-free laws and raise the price of cigarettes. Tobacco kills millions of smokers every year, and tobacco-related lung cancers also kill hundreds of thousands of people who don’t smoke but have been exposed to it second-hand.
“There isn’t a magic bullet to cure all forms of cancer, but we have the opportunity and the duty to protect people from developing cancer wherever possible,” Baldini said.
【小題1】Which of the following words can best take the place of the phrase “ward off” in the sixth paragraph?
A.protect | B.prevent | C.develop | D.cure。 |
A.Exercising and eating healthily can help to reduce cancer risk. |
B.Each year about 12.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer around the world. |
C.Every year millions of people die from smoking and lung cancers. |
D.Adults should walk for fifty minutes three times per week. |
A.Simple life changes could stop millions of cancers |
B.Cancer is a leading cause of death |
C.Our bad lifestyle caused many diseases |
D.The incidence of common cancers is rising |
A.a(chǎn)dvise people to develop healthier lifestyle. |
B.warn people of the danger of cancers |
C.explain why many people die from cancers every year. |
D.introduce the ways to protect people from developing cancers |
A.a(chǎn)ll the lung cancers are linked to smoking |
B.there is no medicine to cure the cancers but it’s our duty to find one |
C.a(chǎn)ll governments should take measures to control smokers and protect people’s health |
D.it’s our opportunity and duty to persuade people to give up smoking |
【小題1】B
【小題2】D
【小題3】A
【小題4】A
【小題5】C
解析試題分析:生活方式的改變可以避免癌癥的發(fā)生,在本文中作者指出如果人們吃健康食品,少飲酒,多運動就會避免三分之一的癌癥發(fā)生。此外還用一些數(shù)據(jù)來證實了健康生活方式的重要性,并且呼吁政府部門要制定法律來避免人們受香煙的危害,給人們一個健康的生活空間。
【小題1】B詞義猜測題。根據(jù)文章第三段people are dying unnecessarily from cancers that could be prevented through keeping a healthy weight, diet, physical activity and other lifestyle factors,以及常識可以推斷健康的生活方式能夠避免癌癥的發(fā)生,所以推斷ward off 是“防止、避免”的意思,答案選B。
【小題2】D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第三段The WHO says adults should do at least 150 minutes ….. 30 minutes five times per week or by cycling to work every day.可知成年人每周150分鐘的鍛煉可以每周進(jìn)行五次時間為30分鐘的步行或者騎自行車,不一定必須是每周三次為時50分鐘的步行,所以D選項內(nèi)容錯誤。
【小題3】A主旨大意題。文章開頭提出如果人們吃健康食品,少飲酒多運動就會避免三分之一的癌癥發(fā)生,然后下文均圍繞生活方式的改變會避免癌癥的發(fā)生來展開行文,由此可知A選項內(nèi)容能概括文章中心,所以答案選A。
【小題4】A推理判斷題。文章開頭提出生活方式的改變可以避免癌癥的發(fā)生,然后通過引用Rachel Thompson的話來證實健康生活方式的重要性以及呼吁政府部門要制定法律控制吸煙給人們帶來的危害,讓人們可以過更健康的生活,由此可知文章的目的就是建議人們養(yǎng)成健康的生活方式,避免癌癥的發(fā)生,故答案選A。
【小題5】C推理判斷題。根據(jù)called on all governments to introduce smoke-free laws and raise the price of cigarettes. 和Tobacco kills millions of smokers every yea可知他認(rèn)為政府要采取措施保護人們健康,遠(yuǎn)離香煙的危害,故C為正確選項。
考點:考查生活健康類短文閱讀。
科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
Recently a study, led by Pedro Hallal of the Federal University, suggests that nearly a third of adults, 31%, are not getting enough exercise. That rates of exercise have declined is hardly a new discovery. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, technology and economic growth have helped to create a world in which taking exercise is more and more an option rather than a necessity. But only recently have enough good data been collected from enough places to carry out the sort of analysis Dr Hallal and his colleagues have engaged in.
There are common themes in different places. Unsurprisingly, people in rich countries are less active than those in poor ones, and old people are less active than young ones. Less obviously, women tend to exercise less than men—34% are inactive, compared with 28% of men. But there are exceptions. The women of Croatia, Finland, Iraq and Luxembourg, for example, move more than their male countrymen.
Malta wins the race for most slothful country, with 72% of adults getting too little exercise, and Swaziland and Saudi Arabia are in close behind, with 69%. In Bangladesh, just 5% of adults fail to exercise enough. Surprisingly, six Americans in ten are active enough according to Dr Hallal’s study, compared with fewer than four in ten British.
These high rates of inactivity are worrying. Human beings seem to have evolved(進(jìn)化) to benefit from exercise while deliberately avoiding it whenever they can. In a state of nature it would be impossible to live a life that did not provide enough of it. But that is no longer the case. Actually lack of enough activity these days has nearly the same effect on life span(壽命) as smoking.
【小題1】We may learn from Paragraph 1 that_________.
A.the decline of exercise rates is newly discovered |
B.the study suggests 31% of female adults get too little exercise |
C.the good enough data has been collected from only one country |
D.the industrial revolution has changed the way people live to some degree |
A.have little time to exercise |
B.hate to get regular exercise |
C.take more exercise to lose weight |
D.exercise more than men in their country |
A.powerful | B.rich | C.lazy | D.unpopular |
A.Worldwide Lack of Enough Exercise |
B.New Health Discovery |
C.Evolvement of Human Beings |
D.Benefits of Taking Exercise |
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C.O.P.D(慢性障礙性肺病) blocks air flow through the lungs. It makes breathing difficult. The leading cause of C.O.P.D. is cigarette smoking. Experts at the National Institutes of Health in the United States say there is no cure to the damage to the lungs.
Dawn Demeo is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. She said, “By 2020, C.O.P.D. may be the third leading cause of death across the world.”
C.O.P.D. is a new name for emphysema(肺氣腫) and chronic bronchitis(慢性支氣管炎). These are the two most common forms of the disease. Many people with C.O.P.D. have both of them. And Doctor Demeo says more women than men now die from the disease.
She is the lead author of a study by a team from Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the University of Bergen in Norway. The new study adds to findings that women may be more at risk than men from the damaging effects of smoking.
The team examined results from a Norwegian study of 954 people with C.O.P.D. Inga-Cecilie Soerheim co-wrote the team’s findings. Doctor Soerheim says they show that women suffered the same level of C.O.P.D.as men. But the female smokers were younger and had smoked a lot less.
The team also looked at two groups among the people in the study. These were people under the age of 60 and those who had smoked for less than 20 years. In both cases, women had more serious C.O.P.D. and a greater loss of lung function (功能)than men.
【小題1】Which of the following statements about C.O.P.D is NOT true ______.
A. Cigarette smoking is likely to cause C.O.P.D.
B. C.O.P.D. makes it hard for a person to breathe
C. C.O.P.D will be one of the most life-threatening diseases.
D. Many people with C.O.P.D. have either emphysema or chronic bronchitis.
【小題2】It can be known from the study that_____.
A. female smokers die faster than male ones.
B. women are more likely to suffer from the damaging effects of smoking than men.
C. women who suffer the same level of C.O.P.D as men were older and weaker.
D. in the group of people under the age of 60, men suffered more from C.O.P.D than women.
【小題3】Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A .Smoking Kills
B. Smoking Triggers Diseases
C. The Leading Causes of C.O.P.D.
D. Women Suffers More from C.O.P.D. than Men
【小題4】In which part of a newspaper would you most probably read this passage?
A.Science | B.Health report | C.Education | D.Business report |
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ASK any group of teenagers in the UK what they most like to eat, and foods like pizzas, curries, pasta, burgers and chips are bound to get a mention – and many young people would probably also list hanging out at the local fast-food restaurant as one of their favorite pastimes.
But what teenagers like to eat is not necessarily what they should be eating. According to the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, far too many young people in the UK between the ages of four and 18 consume too much fat, sugar and salt in their diet and take in too many calories. Meanwhile their intake of starchy carbohydrates (淀粉類碳水化合物), fibre, iron, vitamins and calcium is too low.
For a growing body, eating foods containing plenty of calcium, such as milk, yoghurt and cheese, is particularly important as calcium is essential for the development of healthy, strong bones. Similarly, foods that are rich in iron are good for young, rapidly developing bodies, so red meat, bread, green vegetables, dried fruit and fortified (強化的) breakfast cereals (谷類食物) are also recommended.
It is during our teenage years that lifestyle habits can become entrenched (根深蒂固的), so it is important that young people are educated about what foods are good for them. In 2005, in an attempt to change eating habits and open teenagers’ minds to new flavors and new tastes, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver launched a ‘Feed Me Better’ campaign. As part of a television series, ‘Jamie’s School Dinners’, he worked with teachers and cooks in a number of schools across the UK to provide more healthy, nutritious school meal options. Although the campaign was rather resisted at the beginning, it was generally regarded as a huge success and helped to influence governmental policy on nutritional standards for school meals.
No one expects to end the teenage love affair with fast and junk food but, hopefully, if projects like ‘Feed Me Better’ and the Government's own ‘Change4Life’ campaign continue to give out the right messages, more young people will understand the importance of balancing occasional treats with healthier food options.
【小題1】What can we conclude from the first two paragraphs?
A.British teenagers eat too much junk food. |
B.British teenagers need to take in more calcium. |
C.What British teenagers like to eat is probably what their bodies need |
D.British teenagers should reduce their intake of starchy carbohydrates. |
A.to improve their brainpower |
B.to build healthy strong bodies |
C.to provide energy for their body |
D.to help change their eating habits |
A.show off his excellent cooking skills |
B.teach students how to cook nutritious meals |
C.make the public keep an eye on school food |
D.improve the children’s diet at school |
A.Teenagers should never eat any junk food at all. |
B.It’s easy for children to give up unhealthy eating. |
C.It’s okay for a healthy eater to have a little junk food. |
D.Once developed, our eating habit will never change. |
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Health experts are calling for action to increase cancer care and control in the developing world. A medical research paper says cancer was once thought of as a problem mostly in the developed world. But now cancer is a leading cause of death and disability in poor countries as well. Experts from Harvard University and other organizations urge the international community to fight cancer actively, saying it should be fought in the way HIV/AIDS has been fought in Africa.
Cancer kills more than 7.5 million people a year worldwide. Almost two-thirds are in low-income and middle-income countries.
They discover cancer kills more people in developing countries than AIDS, tuberculosis (肺結(jié)核) and malaria (瘧疾) combined. But the world spends only 5% of its cancer resources in those countries.
Felicia Knaul from Harvard Medical School was one of the writers of the paper. She was in Mexico when she was found to have breast cancer. She received treatment there and her experience showed her the sharp difference between the rich and the poor in treating breast cancer.
Felicia Knaul says, “And we are seeing how this is attacking young women. It’s the number two cause of death in Mexico for women thirty to fifty-four. All over the developing world, it’s the number one cancer-related death among young women. I think we have to again say that there is much more we could do about it than we are doing about it.”
Professor Knalul met community health workers during her work in developing countries. They were an important part of efforts to reduce deaths from the cancer. They were able to persuade people to get tested to prevent the illness. The experts say cancer care does not have to be costly. For example, patients can be treated with lower-cost drugs.
【小題1】What would be the best title for the passage?
A.Cancer – a leading cause of death in poor countries |
B.What should we do in preventing and treating cancer? |
C.What makes the first killer in developing countries? |
D.Experts urge more efforts to fight cancer. |
A.many Mexican women suffer from breast cancer |
B.there is not enough medicine for cancer there |
C.many Mexican women can’t afford medical care |
D.patients with breast cancer are treated differently |
A.breast cancer is a great threat to young women |
B.people don’t pay enough attention to breast cancer |
C.breast cancer is the second killer among women in Mexico |
D.patients can be treated effectively in developing countries |
A.The cancer patients. | B.The health experts. |
C.Community health workers. | D.Young women. |
A.The number of cancer cases is decreasing. |
B.HIV/AIDS is not being taken seriously in Africa. |
C.Over 7.5 million people die of cancer every year. |
D.It is very expensive to treat cancer. |
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Have you ever been bitten? Of course you have. You are surrounded by living things which might, or do, bite. Even when you rest your head on your pillow, bedbugs are probably nibbling away(蠶食) at you. They live happily inside most pillows.
Take a walk outside and you are a target for “man’s best friend. ” Hundreds of dog-bite victims visit US emergency rooms daily. Many bites are terrible. To avoid the dogs in your neighborhood, you might want to hike into the desert or the woods. There, you run the risk of bites from rattlesnakes, scorpions, and blood-sucking ticks. Not to mention bears, wolves, coyotes, and mountain lions.
Speaking of housing, watch out when you touch the corner of your house or garage. Shy but deadly, the black widow spider and the brown recluse spider make themselves comfortable in quiet areas of your closets or garage. One bite from either of them can make you very sick; occasionally, people die from such bites. Unfortunately, many people fear all spiders, not just the few dangerous ones. They squash them or run from them at first sight, not realizing that most spiders are actually beneficial to man.
If you’re concerned about bites, don’t forget about rabid(患有狂犬病的) animal bites. Any warm-blooded animal can get infected with rabies. Although humans in the US rarely get attacked by rabid animals, the disease is painful and dangerous. You will most likely die if you are not treated properly within 48 hours of being bitten.
【小題1】 How does the author introduce the topic of this passage?
A.By asking questions. | B.By giving examples. |
C.By offering suggestions. | D.By doing experiments. |
A.Bedbugs | B.Dogs | C.Coyotes | D.Scorpions |
A.①④ | B.②③ | C.③⑤ | D.②④ |
A.All spiders are dangerous and one bite from each of them can be very serious. . |
B.The black widow spider is actually beneficial to humans. |
C.Spiders always make themselves comfortable in quiet place in your house. |
D.One should squash a spider at first sight to keep safety. |
A.No matter what kind of animal bites you, there is no danger at all. |
B.One should treat rabid animal bites properly within 2 days. |
C.Humans in the US can be bitten by rabid animals frequently. |
D.Hundreds of rabid animal-bite people visit emergency room daily in the US. |
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Feel tired lately? Has a doctor said he can’t find anything wrong with you? Perhaps he sent you to a hospital, but all the advanced equipment there shows that there is nothing wrong with you.
Then , consider this: you might be in a state of sub - health (亞健康).
Sub - health, also called the third state or gray state, is explained as a borderline state between health and disease.
According to the survey by the National Health Organization, Over 45 percent of sub - healthy people are middle-aged or elderly. The percentage is even higher among people who work in management positions as well as students around exam week.
Symptoms (征兆)include a shortage of energy, depression, slow reactions, insomnia (失眠)and poor memory , Other symptoms include shortness of breath, sweating and aching in the waist and legs.
The key to preventing and recovering from sub - health, according to some medical experts, is to form good living habits, ale mate work and rest, exercise regularly, and take part in open air activities.
As for meals, people are advised to eat less salt and sugar . They should also eat more fresh vegetables, fruits, fish because they are rich in nutritional elements - vitamins and trace elements - that are important to the body.
Nutrition experts point out that it is not good to eat too much at one meal because it may cause unhealthy changes in the digestive tract (消化道). They also say that a balanced diet is very helpful in avoiding sub - health.
【小題1】When you are in a state of sub - health, you should________.
A.stay home and keep silent |
B.go to a doctor and buy some medicine |
C.not consider it very serious |
D.find out the reasons and relax yourself |
A.they have used up their energy |
B.they have lost their living hopes |
C.they have more pressure in life and work. |
D.they have changed their way of life |
A.keep on working regularly | B.go to sleep a bit earlier |
C.form good living habits | D.take medicine if necessary |
A.we should never eat meat |
B.we should have variety of food |
C.we should eat less than usual |
D.we should have meals without sugar |
A.a(chǎn)rrange by turns | B.cause to take place |
C.make up for | D.keep away from |
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“In only six days I lost seven pounds of weight.”
“Two full inches in the first three days!”
These are the kinds of statements used in magazine,newspaper,radio and television ads,promising new shapes and new looks to those who buy the medicine or the device. The promoters of products say they can shape the legs,slim the face,smooth wrinkles,or in some other way to add to beauty or desirability.
Often such products are nothing more than moneymaking things for their promoters. The results they produce are questionable,and some are dangerous to health.
To understand how these products can be legally promoted to the public,it is necessary to understand something of the laws covering their regulation. If the product is a drug,F(xiàn)DA(Food and Drug Administration)can require proof under the Food,Drug,and Cosmetic Act that is safe and effective before it is put on the market. But if the product is a device,F(xiàn)DA has no authority to require the proof of safety or effectiveness. If a product already on the market is a danger to health,F(xiàn)DA can request the producer or distributor to remove it from the market voluntarily,or it can take legal action,including seizure (查封) of the product.
One notable case a few years ago involved an electrical device called the Relaxacisor,which had been sold for reducing the waistline. The Relaxacisor produced electrical shocks to the body through contact pads. FDA took legal action against the distributor to stop the sale of the device on the grounds that it was dangerous to health and life.
Obviously,most of the devices on the market have never been the subject of court proceedings (法律訴訟),and new devices appear continually. Before buying,it is up to the consumer to judge the safety or effectiveness of such items.
【小題1】It can be inferred that the ads mentioned in the text are________.
A.objective | B.costly | C.unreliable | D.illegal |
A.if it is a drug |
B.if it is a device |
C.if its consumers make complaints |
D.if its distributors challenge FDA's authority |
A.a(chǎn) product which was designed to produce electricity |
B.a(chǎn) product whose distributor was involved in a legal case |
C.a(chǎn) successful advertisement of a beauty product |
D.a(chǎn)n example of a quality beauty product |
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“Some day, there’ll be no Americans left in the NBA,” said 12-year-old Xing Tao, who joined his school team two weeks ago after watching Yao Ming in a televised NBA game, “The players will all be Chinese, like Yao.”
To China, Yao is a home-grown superstar who helped make the world’s first basketball league closer to Chinese players. To the NBA, the 2.23-meter center offers an opening of a different sort into the world’s largest new market. Yao’s NBA first appearance against the Indiana Pacers in October reached 287 million families in the US. That game might have been a bit of a letdown to Yao’s fans: He played just 11 of the 48 minutes, had two rebounds(籃板) and got no points. Comparing that with his performance on December 19, also against Indiana, Yao won 29 points and 10 rebounds. “This was one of the most exciting games I’ve had,” Yao said after Houston’s 95-83 victory. The NBA has to be excited about his on-count success. In all his games, he’s averaging 12.7 points and 7.7 rebounds, quite good for a new star. “Yao Ming has brought the NBA closer to the Chinese,” said NBA spokeswoman Cheong Sau Ching, “That makes the dream seem practical for other people in China and proud to be Chinese.”
The 22-year-old Yao is not the country’s first player in the NBA: Wang Zhizhi broke down the Dallas Mavericks in November 2003. But Yao’s combination of modesty and skills make him a favorite back home.
【小題1】What’s the direct reason for Xing Tao to join the school basketball team?
A. He watched an NBA game
B. He liked basketball.
C. He hoped to play for the NBA.
D. He had dream that he would become a basketball star.
【小題2】How many points did Yao Ming win in his first game in the NBA?
A.zero | B.two | C.29 | D.10 |
A.failure | B.surprise | C.disappointment | D.sadness. |
A.He is modest and performs excellently. |
B.He is too kind to others. |
C.More and more Chinese people like to watch his games. |
D.He is very modest but proud. |
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