题目内容
We’ve found the simplest, most powerful steps you can take---without adding more jobs to your to-do list or expenses to your monthly budget---to protect your heart naturally.
It can be as simple as laughing at a bad situation rather than getting angry. It means going for walks after dinner, not watching game shows. It means giving an apple for dessert rather than apple pie, or spending 15 minutes sipping a cup of home-made cocoa curled up on the sofa with your family instead of watching the 11 o’clock news with a bag of chips. It’s doing a 5-minutes-a-day strength-training program while the coffee boils in the morning or taking a 3-second silent pause when the “you’ve got mail” alert sounds on your computer.
Here is the plan that lets you take them all on and win.
1. Focus on Small Changes for Big Results
Fast, simple diet can cut cholesterol (胆固醇) by 30 percent. A 5-minutes-a-day weight-training program can replace 10 years’ worth of lost muscle tissue.
2. Eat Fresh Foods
Fresh, whole foods don’t have to cost more or take more time to prepare than the packaged stuff. These wholesome, delicious foods --- fresh fruits and veggies, grains, fish, meats, dairy products, and even soy---not only taste good, they also protect your heart by greatly reducing blood fats, driving down raised blood sugar, fighting destructive free radicals(自由基).
3. Find Joy
Accumulated researches link impatience and complaints with poor heart health; in contrast, forgiveness, friends, and optimism are linked with healthier hearts. Do you have a heart- threatening personality type? Find out and learn how to live a more joyful life.
64. As is suggested in the passage, you will keep a healthy heart if you ___________.
A. often dine out with friends in restaurants
B. overlook unimportant bad happenings
C. watch late evening news eating a bag of chips
D. have packaged foods instead of wholesome foods
65. ___________ person is more likely to have a poor heart.
A. A bad-tempered B. A cold-hearted
C. An ill-mannered D. A broad-minded
66. The best title should be ___________.
A. Economical Ways of Keeping Fit
B. The Path to a Healthy Heart
C. Making a Difference --- Small Changes
D. Fresh Foods---Key to a Healthy Heart
BAB
Judging from recent surveys, most experts in sleep behavior agree that there is virtually an epidemic(流行病) of sleepiness in the nation.“I can’t think of a single study that hasn’t found Americans getting less sleep than they ought to,” says Dr.David.Even people who think they are sleeping enough would probably be better off with more rest.
The beginning of our sleep-deficit(lack)crises can be traced back to the invention of the light bulb a century ago.From diary entries and our personal accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries, sleep scientists have reached the conclusion that the average person used to sleep about 9.5 hours a night.“The best sleep habits once were forced on us, when we had nothing to do in the evening down on the farm, and it was dark.” By the 1950s and 1960s, the sleep schedule had been reduced dramatically, to between 7.5 and 8 hours, and most people had to wake to an alarm clock.“People cheat in their sleep, and they don’t even realize they’re doing it,” says Dr.David.“They think they’re okay because they can get by on 6.5 hours, when they really need 7.5, 8 or even more to feel ideally energetic. ”
Perhaps the most merciless robber of sleep, researches say, is the complexity of the day.Whenever pressures from work, family, friends and community increase, many people consider sleep the least expensive item on their programs.“In our society, you’re considered dynamic if you say you need only 5.5 hours’ sleep.If you’ve got to get 8.5 hours, people think you lack drive and ambition.”
To determine the consequences of sleep-deficit, researchers have put subjects through a set of psychological and performance tests requiring them, for instance, to add columns of numbers or recall a passage read to them only minutes earlier.“We’ve found that if you’re in sleep deficit, performance suffers,” says Dr.David.“Short-term memory is weakened, as are abilities to make decisions and to concentrate.”
【小题1】What is the main topic of the passage?
A.The history of people’s sleeping patterns. |
B.The epidemic of sleepiness in the modern times. |
C.Research on the causes and consequences of sleep-deficit. |
D.The minimum of our sleeping hours. |
A.People’s metal power suffers if they are lacking in sleep. |
B.Some people can remain energetic with only 6.5 hours’ sleep a night. |
C.If they get 8.5 hours’ sleep, people will be full of drive and ambition. |
D.People who think they are sleeping enough are better off than those who don't. |
A.they had no electricity |
B.they knew what was best for their health |
C.they were forced by their parents to do so |
D.they were not so dynamic and ambitious as modern people are |
A.the endless TV programs in the evenings and the internet |
B.the heavy work load of the day |
C.the sufficient energy modern people usually have |
D.loud noises in the modern cities |
A.Person or thing that is being discussed or described. |
B.Branch of knowledge studied in a school. |
C.Person or thing being treated in a certain way or being experimented on. |
D.Any member of a State apart from the supreme ruler. |