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    Men and women who serve in the United States armed forces are proud of the names like

 doughboy and GI Joe.The names have come from the American Civil War.

    After the American Civil War in the eighteen sixties,a writer in a publication called Beadle’s Monthly used the word doughboy to describe Civil War soldiers.But word expert Charles Funk says that early writer could not explain where the name started.

    About twenty years later,someone did explain.She was the wife of the famous American general George Custer.Elizabeth Custer wrote that a doughboy was a sweet food served to Navy men on ships.She also said the name was given to the large buttons on the clothes of soldiers.For example,the soldiers enjoyed their new GI very much.They looked smart and felt comfortable.Elizabeth Custer believed the name changed over time to mean the soldiers themselves.

    By World War Two,soldiers were called other names.The one most often heard was GI, or GI Joe.Most people say the letters GI were a short way to say general issue or government issue.The name came to mean several things.It could mean the soldier himself.It could mean things given to soldiers when they joined the military such as weapons,equipment or clothes.And,for some reason,it could mean to organize,or clean.Soldiers often say,“We GI’d the place.”And when an area looks good.soldiers may say the area is“GI.”Strangely,though,GI can also mean poor work,a job badly done.

    Some students of military words have another explanation of GI.They say that instead of government issue or general issue,GI came from the words galvanized iron.The American soldier was said to be like galvanized iron,a material produced for special strength.The Dictionary of Soldier Talk says GI was used for the words galvanized iron in a publication about the vehicles of the early twentieth century.

    Today,a doughboy or GI may be called a grunt(咕哝声).Nobody is sure of the exact beginning of the word.But,the best idea probably is that the name comes from the sound that troops make when ordered to march long distances carrying heavy equipment.

68.Originally the word“doughboy”referred to              .

    A.the American Civil War              B.a word expert in the 1860s

    C.the American Civil War writers      D.a sweet food and the buttons

69.It was           who found how the name doughboy came about.

      A.Elizabeth Custer                         B.George Custer

   C.Charles Funk                                 D.Beadle's Monthly

70.What does GI mean in the example in Paragraph 4 ?

      A.Clothes.                                 B.Weapons.                

    C.Government issues.                    D.Vehicles.

71.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

    A.Navy soldiers used to 1ike sweet food a lot in the wars.

    B.Much noise was made when soldiers carried equipment.

    C.Galvanized iron was a symbol of the soldiers.

    D.A US soldier can be called a doughboy,a GI or a grunt.

【小题1】D

【小题2】A

【小题3】C

【小题4】D

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A.healthB.long lifeC.ageingD.effect
【小题2】The text mainly talks about ______.
A.men’s heart cellsB.women’s ageing process
C.the gender differenceD.hearts and long life
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Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.

The largest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts hardly lose their pumping power with age.

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What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.

“This gender(性别)difference might just explain why women live longer than men,” said Goldspink.

They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on heahhy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease.

The team has yet to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart, said Goldspink.

The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.

1.The underlined word “longevity” in the second paragraph probably refers to _____.

A.health            B.long life           C.ageing            D.effect

2.The text mainly talks about ______.

A.men’s heart cells                      B.women’s ageing process

C.the gender difference                    D.hearts and long life

3.According to the text, the UK scientists have known that _____.

A.women have more cells than men when they are born

B.women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beat

C.the female heart loses few of the cells with age

D.women never lose their pumping power with age

4. We can know from the passage that ______.

A.scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cells

B.the reason why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found out

C.the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater loss

D.wome over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 20

 

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