All of my childhood and early, adult life, my mom weighed over 220 pounds (one pound = 0.454 kilograms). I could feel the pain that my mom experienced with her fatness.

    I was never uncomfortable about my mother, but I think she was uncomfortable about herself, and that feeling was painful for all of us. And she began to lose weight.

     After more than twenty years of battling obesity(肥胖), my mother completed a forceful eighteen-month diet that left her ninety pounds lighter than before. A new woman was born! At age twenty-eight, I got a new mom! For the first time, I met the woman my mother truly was, the beautiful little lady under the fatness. It wasn’t so much her new body that was the surprise, but rather her new spirit.

    To celebrate her new size and to devote herself to dancing again, my mother joined a “Mrs. Forty-Plus” competition, where she would have to model, give a speech and provide a dance performance. She told our family that she did not care if she won — she simply had always wanted to perform on stage.

    She told each one of us, “I’m not doing it to win; I’m doing it to dance!”

    The competition was exciting! I prayed(祈祷) that my mom would win, but while watching her on stage I was simply overjoyed just by her effort. To me, she had already won. She posed to perfection, her speech brought tears to everyones eyes, and her performance was wonderful.

    That night, at age fifty-three, my mother was crowned (为......加冕) “Mrs. Forty-Plus”. She was the first person in our family to ever win such a title.

The first two paragraphs mainly show that the author’s mom was __________.

   A. experienced      B. painful      C. comfortable        D. fat

After the author’s mom completed a forceful eighteen-month diet, she was about ______.

      A. 85 kilograms           B. 41 kilograms   

       C. 130 pounds         D. 90 pounds

In order to join in the “Mrs. Forty-Plus” Competition, the author’s mom has to do the following EXCEPT __________.

      A. providing a dance performance         

       B. telling a funny story about herself

       C. giving a speech to a large number of people

      D. wearing special clothes to show to people

The underlined part in Paragraph 6 means that __________.

       A. the author’s mom succeeded in modeling and speaking

       B. the author’s mom’s performance was very wonderful

       C. the author’s mom was not successful in modeling

       D. the author’s mom succeeded in making a speech

In a new article, Zehr, a professor at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, describes his success in using the Caped Crusader (披篷骑士) to engage students in the study of physiology.

"Batman (蝙蝠侠) has such powerful influence on readers because he is a fictional human with superpowers that seem within reach if we only work at it," writes Zehr, in a new article published in Advances in Physiology Education, a journal of the American Physiological Society. Zehr believes that it is not Batman's vast wealth that allows him to protect the citizens of Gotham City (哥谭市) , but his dedication to developing a wide range of physical skills.

Zehr uses Batman to establish a framework, grounded in his fictional universe as well as our real one, in order to discuss the various components of exercise and physical training and illustrate how the body's physiological systems respond. His experiences in teaching undergraduate courses in physiology and neurophysiology made him realize that connecting science to popular culture helped students understand the lessons better.

He first presented a formal analysis of the personal and physical discipline that would be required to transform an ordinary person into a superhero in his book, Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero. The book drew on Zehr's understanding and work in human movement and the plasticity of nerves and muscles associated with exercise. By coincidence, the book was published in the wake of The Dark Knight, the blockbuster movie which recounts Batman and his arch-enemy, the Joker.

With the casting almost complete for the sequel(续集), The Dark Knight Rises, Dr. Zehr writes about his experiences connecting science to popular culture, which is captured in the Advances, article, "A Personal View: From Claude Bernard to the Batcave and Beyond: Using Batman as a hook for physiology education." 

In Zehr's opinion, what makes Batman be able to defend his citizens?

 A. his large amount of fortune        B. his devotion to developing varieties of physical skills

 C. his habit of wearing a cape       D. his developing so wide range of magic power

Which one of the following statements is TRUE according to the third paragraph?

A. Students of physiology and neurophysiology should have more physical training

B. To become a batman needs developing a wide range of physical skills

C. Only Batman can illustrate the respond of the body’s physiological system

D. combining science with popular culture can be beneficial to students’ study

To help students study physiology well, Dr.Zehr uses Batman to do the following EXCEPT___

A. set up his theoretical principles of teaching physiology   

B. discuss the different components of physical training

C. illustrate the ways of body’s physiology system responding

D. perform many physiology experiments on the body movement

.According to the book Becoming Batman, what does the possibility of becoming a superhero mainly lie on?

A. Dr. Zehr’s formal analyses of the body's movement rules

B. the flexibility of nerves and muscles when being trained well

C. the physical training conducted by Dr. Zehr 

D. the final influence of Batman on one person

This passage is mainly about          .

A. Batman’s education significance in physiology B. introduction to Zehr’ s books on physiology

C. how to become a superhero like Batman     D. Batman’s powerful effects on the readers

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