2. Mr. Cousins attributed the bad chemical changes in his body to
A. a severe illness.
B. weak bones.
C. too much sleep.
D. unhappy thoughts.
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Passage 2 Happy Therapy (诊疗)Para. 1: Norman Cousins was a businessman from the United States who often traveled around the world on business. He enjoyed his work and traveling.Para. 2: Then, after returning to tile United States from a busy and tiring trip to Russia, Mr. Cousins got sick. Because he had pushed his body to the limit of its strength on the trip, a chemical change began to take place inside him. The material between his bones became weak.Para. 3: In less than one week after his return, he could not stand. Every move that he made was painful. He was not able to sleep at night.Para. 4: The doctors told Mr. Cousins that they did not know how to cure his problems and he might never get over the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give up hope.Para. 5: Mr. Cousins thought that unhappy thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body. He did not want to take medicine to cure himself. Instead, he felt that happy thoughts or laughter might cure his illness.Para. 6: He began to experiment on himself while still in the hospital by watching funny shows on television. Mr. Cousins quickly found that ten minutes of real laughter during the day gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night.Para. 7: Deciding that the doctors could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could continue his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins rested in the hotel room watching funny shows on television, reading funny books, and sleeping whenever he felt tired. Within three weeks, he felt well enough to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for exercise.Para. 8: After a few months, Mr. Cousins returned to work He had laughed himself back to health.1. Mr. Cousins got sick after returning from
A. a busy trip to the US.
B. a trip around the world.
C. a trip to Puerto Rico.
D. a tiring trip to Russia.
4. Which of the following is most often accompanied by obesity?
A. Diabetes
B. stomachache
C. Neuron complaints
D. High blood pressure
3. Hermann Toplak suggested that more money should be spent on
A. health insurance
B. preventive programs
C. state health services
D. obesity related surgeries
Passage 1 Obesity in the Western World Para. 1: Obesity is rapidly becoming a new problem of the Western world, delegates agreed at the 11th European Conference on the issue in Vienna Wednesday to Saturday. According to statements before the opening of the conference of ——2,000 specialists from more than 50 countries—— 1.2 billion people worldwide are overweight, and 250 million are obese. Para. 2: Professor Bernhard Ludvik of Vienna General Hospital said: obesity is a chronic illness. In Germany, 20 percent of the people are already affected, but in Japan only one Percent.” But he said that there was hope for sufferers thanks to the new scientific discoveries and medication. Para. 3: Professor Friedrich Heterotypic of Salzburg said: “We are living in the new age (but) with the metabolism of a stone-age man.” “I have just been to the United States. It is really terrible. A pizza shop is springing up on every corner. We have been overrun by fast food an Coca-Cola-ization.” Para. 4: Many of the experts stressed that obesity was a potential killer. Heterotypic said:“ Eighty percent of all disable are obese, also fifty percent of all patients with high blood pressure and fifty percent with adipose (脂肪的) tissue complaints." "Ten percent more weight means thirteen percent more risk of heart disease . Reducing one’s weight by ten percent leads to thirteen percent lower blood pressure" Para. 5: Another expert Hermann Toplak said that the state health services should improve their financing of preventive programs.“Though the health insurance pays for surgery (such as reducing the size of the stomach) when the body-mass index is more than 40. That is equivalent to a weight of 116 kilograms for a height of l.70 meters. One should start earlier. " Para. 6: Ludvik said that prevention should begin in school. "Child obesity (fat deposits) correlates (与...有关) with the time which children spend in front of TV sets.”The consequences were only apparent later on. No more than fifteen percent of obese people lived to the average life expectancy for their population group.1. Which of the following is true about obesity in Paragraph 2?
A. people in Japan needn't worry about obesity
B. 20% of the people in the world are overweight
C. Obesity should be cured with new medication
D. Obesity is a disease that lasts for a long time