It’s common knowledge that there are many benefits to being fit, but one large new study found that skipping out on the gym is practically the worst thing you can do for your health. In fact, the study claims not exercising might be more harmful to your health than smoking.
New findings, published Friday in the journal JAMA Network Open, detail how researchers at the Cleveland Clinic studied 122,007 patients from 1991 to 2014, putting them under treadmill (跑步机) testing and later recording death rates. Researchers found a clear connection between a longer, healthier life and high levels of exercise. The report calls for health care professionals to encourage patients to achieve and continue a strong and healthy fitness routine.
Although it is widely understood that an active lifestyle can lead to a healthy life, the study concludes that a lifestyle which involves much sitting but little activity is equal to having a major disease and the simplest cure is exercise.
Dr Wael Jaber, co-author of the study, called the results totally surprising. “Being unfit on a treadmill or in an exercise stress test has a worse prognosis (病情预断), as far as death, than being a smoker or suffering from high blood pressure,” Jaber told CNN. “We’ve never seen something as noticeable as this and as objective as this.”
The study also took a look at the risk of being overactive and found that extreme exercisers do not face higher risk of death: the research found that the more a person exercises the lower their death rates.
1.Which of the following best explains “skipping out on” in paragraph 1?
A. keeping away from B. running in
C. jumping out of D. smoking inside
2.What do we know from the new findings?
A. An active lifestyle can lead to a healthy life.
B. The simplest cure for a major disease is exercise.
C. A person unfit on a treadmill is less likely to die.
D. One’s life span is related to the level of exercise.
3.What does Jaber think of the research results?
A. Impossible. B. Amusing.
C. Unbelievable. D. Uncertain.
4.What conclusion can we draw from the last paragraph?
A. Too much exercise will be no good.
B. A low death rate depends on an active lifestyle.
C. Extreme exercise is more harmful for health.
D. The rise of death rate is related to exercise.
The Chicago Fine Chocolate Show took place in November. Pastry chefs (面包师) from around the country handed out samples of their very best work. Chef Scott Green, a chocolate sculptor, impressed the attendees at the show. Not only did he bring his work for all to see，but he also made chocolate sculptures right then and there.
Green talked to TFK about his job as a chocolate sculptor. He explained that he thinks of himself as an artist who just happens to work with chocolate rather than wood or stone. “I hive been around chocolate so long that it isn’t chocolate anymore,” he said. To learn more about the job of a chocolate sculptor, read on.
TFK: What was the hardest thing that you have ever carved, and what was it made of?
GREEN: In 2017, I did the U.S. Pastry Championship, and I had to carve ft castle out of white chocolate for the competition. I didn’t have a lot of experience, and white chocolate is hard to carve. That was the hardest thing I have ever carved.
TFK: How long does it take to make an average sculpture?
GREEN: For me, it takes a couple of days. Most of that time is getting all the pieces ready. The easiest part is gluing it all together. Chocolate is used for glue. It holds together very well.
TFK: How much chocolate do you use per sculpture?
GREEN: It depends on the sculpture. For a show piece, I maybe use 20 to 60 pounds of chocolate. You have to be really strong to lift it. I always ask for help.
TFK: Is it easier to work with sugar or chocolate?
GREEN: They are very different. Generally speaking, it is easier to work with chocolate. Chocolate likes being poured into molds (模具), and it sets at room temperature. Sugar is much more fragile. It is very hot when you work with it and not as easy.
1.According to the passage, Chef Scott Green _________.
A. was good at making chocolate
B. made sculptures with stone or wood
C. didn’t bring his work at the show
D. made sculptures at the show
2.What does the underlined sentence mean?
A. Chocolate is very delicious.
B. Green has become tired of chocolate.
C. Green didn’t work with chocolate anymore.
D. Chocolate is just a material he works with.
3.What can we infer from the text?
A. Gluing chocolate is difficult.
B. Green can’t raise his sculptures by himself in most cases.
C. It is more difficult to work with Chocolate than with sugar.
D. Green did well at the 2017 U.S. Pastry Championship.
4.Which part of a newspaper is the text probably taken from?
A. Art. B. Education.
C. Cooking. D. Tourism.
When I was a kid, I loved reading history, science fiction, detective stories, but especially comics. I had piles of them and kept talking my Dad into making more shelves for me. One day, I read about a 13-year-old boy who had actually written one of my favorite comics, Legion of Super-Heroes, and I said, “I can do that too.” That year, I was two years younger than the writer.
Three years later, a friend and I started our own fan magazine about comics. It became the first place that regularly told people when their favorite comics were coming out and writers and artists were working on them. Because of the magazine, I won the awards for The Comic Reader, but more important, it got many of the people in the field to know who I was.
One day when I was visiting DC Comics for news for my next issue, one of the editors a chance to write text for his comic. Suddenly, at 16, I was getting paid to write.
I was able to pay for my college classes working as an assistant editor at DC Comics and learned how to write comics stories while I was there. I wrote hundreds of stories. Over the years, I worked as an editor and an executive (主管) for the company, eventually serving as a president and publisher, until earlier this year. Now I’m back to my first love, writing comics again.
Every morning, I open my e-mail and find pages of art sent in by artists across the country who draw my stories. When I’m tired of working on the stories, I can go online and find my readers commenting on my stories or telling me when I make mistakes.
Keep reading and writing, it’s a wonderful way to live.
1.At what age did the author win the awards for The Comic Reader?
A. 13 B. 14.
C. 15. D. 16.
2.What is the author’s present job?
A. An editor. B. A comics writer.
C. A painter. D. A publisher.
3.How is the passage mainly developed?
A. By listing some data. B. By giving examples.
C. By following time order. D. By making comparisons.
假定你是李华，你的美国好友Eric将随团前往你校访问。他来信咨询接待事宜。请给他写封邮件，内容包括：
1. 活动内容；
2. 饮食住宿。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
They are the sort of friend who are so close they trust each other with their lives. If one falls, the other is there catch him.
One is Wellman, his legs were permanently injured nine years before in a rock-climbing accident. The other is Corbett. He is a experienced rock climber. Together with, they climbed up Half Dome，the famous 2,000-foot rock in the Yosemite National Park.
However, their climb of Half Dome is not all smooth. At one point, pieces of rock gave way, but Corbett dropped down quickly. Wellman locked their rope in place, stopping the fall at 20 feet. Her quick action probably saved his friend life.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Think about the different ways that people use the wind. You can use it to fly a kite 1. to sail a boat Wind is one of our cleanest and 2. (rich) power sources, as well as one of the oldest. Evidence shows that windmills (风车) 3. (begin) to be used in ancient Iran back in 4. seventh century BC. They were first 5. (introduce) to Europe during the 1100s, when armies returned from the Middle East with knowledge of 6. (use) wind power.
For many 7. (century), people used windmills to grind (磨碎) wheat into flour or pump water from deep underground. 8. electricity was discovered in the late 1800s, people living in remote areas began to use 9. (they) to produce electricity. This allowed them to have electric lights and radio. Today, there is a 10. (globe) movement to supply more and more of our electricity through the use of wind.
