题目内容
________ and short of breath, Andy and Ruby were the first to reach the top of Mount Tai.
A. To be tried B. Tired
C. Tiring D. Being tired
B
解析:
首先要注意tired与tiring的意思有区别:前者表示“感到疲劳的”,后者表示“令人疲劳的”或“累人的”,根据句意,显然不宜用tiring,故可排除C;由于是与形容词短语short of breath相并列,所以应选形容词tired。句意为:虽然累得上气不接下气,但安迪和鲁比是最先到达泰山山项的。
Short people, studies have shown , are more likely to have a stroke , suffer from high blood pressures and heart disease and be bullied in school .
Now, researchers report that short people—at least in the past—were also more likely to die at a younger age than their taller peers.
Their study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology (流行病学) and Community Health , found that short bones have something to do with short life for more than 1,000 years. The conclusion was based on 490 sets of adult skeletal(骨架) remains from an archaeological(考古学的) site in northeastern England , YC dating from the 9th century to about 1850 .
About 55% of men and 73% of women died before the age of 45, and 39% of men and 56% of women died before age 30. The risk of death before age 30 declined as bone length increased.
“This study provides evidence from an archaeological sample that long bone length is connected with age at death—those with smaller bones tend to die younger,” according to Dr. D.J. Gunnell of the university of Bristol in the UK and colleagues .
While it is not clear why short stature(身材) might be linked to earlier death , the researchers point out that height is an indicator of childhood nutrition, which may have long-lasting effect on health .
“Mechanism (身体结构) for height-mortality(死亡) associations in the past may differ from those today , for example , short stature may have increased the risk of death in childbirth and this may explain the higher risk of premature(未成熟的) mortality in women,” Gunnell and colleagues write .
“However, short bones, it would appear, have always been a marker of a short life,” the authors conclude.
【小题1】The title of the passage should be .
A.Short people and their taller peers |
B.Men and women |
C.Short stature and short life |
D.Long life and short life |
A.a study | B.a marker | C.a risk | D.an age |
A.People with smaller bones were more likely to die younger. |
B.Women were more likely to die at a young age. |
C.Short-stature women bear higher risk of death in giving birth to babies. |
D.Most people were more likely to die at the age of 30 in the past. |
A.less childhood nutrition | B.heart disease |
C.some illnesses | D.high blood pressure |
A.space medicine | B.sports medicine |
C.social medicine | D.industrial medicine |