题目内容
Heart attack kills ________ people every year.
A. million of
B. millions
C. millions of
D. million
Researchers have announced the result of two studies on the health effects of the drug aspirin(阿斯匹林). One study shows aspirin can sharply reduce the chance that a healthy, older man will suffer from a heart attack.
The study offered two new results from earlier findings. It said taking one aspirin pill every other day helped only healthy men over the age of fifty. It also said aspirin gave the greatest protection against heart attacks to men with low blood cholesterol(胆固醇) levels.
Earlier in the United States began a major aspirin study in the early 1980s. it included 22,000 healthy men doctors. All were between the ages of forty and eighty-four. More than 11,000 of the doctors took a harmless pill that contained no drug. The men did not know which kind of pill they were taking.
The doctors who took aspirin suffered 44% fewer heart attacks than those taking the harmless pill. 139 men who took aspirin suffered from heart attacks. Ten of them died. 239 men who didn’t take aspirin suffered from heart attacks. Twenty-six of them died.
The researchers said the doctors’ study provides clear proof that taking aspirin can prevent a first heart attack in healthy, older men. They said ,however, the result does not mean every man over the age of fifty should take aspirin. They said aspirin couldn’t help men who do not eat healthy foods, who smoke cigarettes and who are fat. The researchers said men who think they would be helped by taking aspirin should talk with their doctors first.
【小题1】 The passage tells us that the new use of aspirin is___________.
| A.to treat heart disease. |
| B.to reduce pain while one suffers from a heart attack. |
| C.to help old people to be more healthy. |
| D.to reduce the chance of a heart attack in old men. |
| A.work as doctors | B.are under 40 years old |
| C.are fat and smoke cigarettes | D.are older and healthy |
| A.7% | B.11% |
| C.19% | D.44% |
I won’t forget her advice
I had a very special teacher in high school many years ago. Her husband died of a heart attack. About a week after his death, she shared some of her insights(见解)with us.
The class was nearly over. She said, “Before class is over, I would like to share with all of you an important thought.”
“Each of us is put here on Earth to learn, share, love, enjoy and give all by ourselves. We must make the best of every single day.”
Her eyes were beginning to water and she went on, “So I would like you all to make me a promise. From now on, on your way to school, or on your way home, find something beautiful to notice. It doesn’t have to be something you see — it could be a nice smell — perhaps of freshly baked bread, or it could be the sound of the breeze slightly blowing the leaves in the trees.”
“Please look for these things, and love them. For, although it may seem common, these things are the stuff(素材)of life. They are the little things we are put here on Earth to enjoy. They are the things we often take for granted. We must make it a point to notice them, for at any time it can all be taken away.”
The class was completely quiet. We picked up our books and went out of the room silently. That afternoon, I noticed more things on my way home from school than I had that whole term.
I usually think of that teacher and try to enjoy all of those things that we sometimes overlook (忽略).
Take notice of something special you see during your lunch hour today. Walk barefoot along the beach at sunset. For as we get older, it is not the things we did that we regret(后悔), but the things we didn’t do.
【小题1】What happened to the teacher’s husband?
| A.He was ill. |
| B.He died of a heart attack. |
| C.He made a promise. |
| D.He became a teacher, too. |
| A.on her way to school |
| B.on her way home |
| C.at the beginning of class |
| D.at the end of class |
| A.colourful cloud | B.white snow |
| C.light wind | D.heavy rain |
| A.We should love life and enjoy things around us. |
| B.We should share our important thoughts with others. |
| C.We should never feel sorry for what we have done. |
| D.We should do importand things and overlook little ones. |
I won’t forget her advice
I had a very special teacher in high school many years ago. Her husband died of a heart attack. About a week after his death, she shared some of her insights(见解)with us.
The class was nearly over. She said, “Before class is over, I would like to share with all of you an important thought.”
“Each of us is put here on Earth to learn, share, love, enjoy and give all by ourselves. We must make the best of every single day.”
Her eyes were beginning to water and she went on, “So I would like you all to make me a promise. From now on, on your way to school, or on your way home, find something beautiful to notice. It doesn’t have to be something you see — it could be a nice smell — perhaps of freshly baked bread, or it could be the sound of the breeze slightly blowing the leaves in the trees.”
“Please look for these things, and love them. For, although it may seem common, these things are the stuff(素材)of life. They are the little things we are put here on Earth to enjoy. They are the things we often take for granted. We must make it a point to notice them, for at any time it can all be taken away.”
The class was completely quiet. We picked up our books and went out of the room silently. That afternoon, I noticed more things on my way home from school than I had that whole term.
I usually think of that teacher and try to enjoy all of those things that we sometimes overlook (忽略).
Take notice of something special you see during your lunch hour today. Walk barefoot along the beach at sunset. For as we get older, it is not the things we did that we regret(后悔), but the things we didn’t do.
1.What happened to the teacher’s husband?
|
A.He was ill. |
B.He died of a heart attack. |
|
C.He made a promise. |
D.He became a teacher, too. |
2.The high school teacher shared her insights with her students ____________.
|
A.on her way to school |
B.on her way home |
|
C.at the beginning of class |
D.at the end of class |
3.The underlined word “breeze” (in Paragraph 4) means ____________?
|
A.colourful cloud |
B.white snow |
|
C.light wind |
D.heavy rain |
4.What is the teacher’s advice?
|
A.We should love life and enjoy things around us. |
|
B.We should share our important thoughts with others. |
|
C.We should never feel sorry for what we have done. |
|
D.We should do importand things and overlook little ones. |