Drinking small amount of hard Japanese rice wine apparently never hurt 114-year-old Kamato Hongo.She is now the world’s oldest living person, according to Guinness World Records.
“Hongo inherited（繼承）the title Monday after the death of the previous record holder, Maud Farris-Luse ,of Coldwater , Mich.,”the record-keeping company said on its website.Farris-Luse was 115 years and 56 days old then.
“Hongo, born on Sept .16,1887, was raised on a farm and counts drinking Japanese rice wine among her favorite things ─ along with black salt, pork ,sashimi（生魚(yú)片）and green tea,”according to Guinness. “She also likes traditional Japanese dancing.”
“The key is not storing up stress,”said her 45-year-old grandson Tsuyoshi Kurauchi. “If you do that, you can eat or drink anything.”
“Hongo mothered seven children, more than 20 grandchildren, and even outlived her eldest daughter, who died two years ago while in her 90s,”according to Kurauchi, who described Hongo as a “warm, caring grandmother”.
She lived in a nursing home in Kagoshima, a city about 615 miles southwest of Tokyo on the island of Kyushu, which has reputation for record-breaking longevity among its residents.
Hongo was born in the nearby town of Isen, home to the late Shigechiyo Izumi, who also held the Guinness record as the world’s oldest person. He died in 1986 at the age of 120.
Recently , another Kyushu resident was regarded as the world’s oldest man. Retired silkworm farmer Yukichi Chuganji graduated into the spot on Jan . 4 with the death of his predecessor, Antonio Todde of Italy. Chuganji turns 113 on Saturday.
There are an estimated 15,000 Japanese over the age of 100, and women make up about 80 percent of the total.
小題1:The sentence “The key is not storing up stress.”in Paragraph 4 means “ ___________”.
A．The most important is to mind everything that has been done.
B．The most important is to forget the unpleasant things.
C．The most important is to reduce the heavy load of learning and work.
D．The most important is to remember what brings you unhappiness.
小題2:Who is considered to be the world’s oldest man alive in the passage?
A．Maud Farris-Luse.B．Shigechiyo Izumi.
C．Yukichi Chuganji.D．Kamato Hongo.
小題3:Which of the following is not true about Kamato Hongo?
A．She is the world’s oldest person alive.
B．She loves drinking Japanese rice wine.
C．She is fond of traditional Japanese dancing.
D．She cares about everything that happens around her.
小題4: The passage mainly talks about ___________________ .
A．the fact that women are living longer than men
B．something about the Japanese oldest living lady
C．the fact that Kagoshima is famous for longevity
D．the secret of living longer

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:B

小題1:句意猜測(cè)題。短文的前三段講述了這位老人的生活習(xí)慣，從而得出第四段門真本鄉(xiāng)老人45歲的孫子津吉倉(cāng)內(nèi)的一段話：長(zhǎng)壽的關(guān)鍵是不要把不高興的事情堆積在心里，只要做到這一點(diǎn)，你就會(huì)有好胃口。
小題2:推斷題。根據(jù)短文倒數(shù)第二段可知：最近，一位名叫友吉中元寺的九州島老人被列為世界上最長(zhǎng)壽的男人。前記錄保持者意大利的安東尼奧·托德今年1月4日去世后，這位名叫友吉中元寺的養(yǎng)蠶人便獲得了這一頭銜。
小題3:事實(shí)歸納題。短文中提到：門真本鄉(xiāng)老人平時(shí)喜歡喝一點(diǎn)烈性的日本米酒；目前是在世的世界上最長(zhǎng)壽的老人；她還喜歡傳統(tǒng)的日本舞蹈。
小題4:主旨題。從全文的結(jié)構(gòu)上分析，短文開(kāi)頭介紹了門真本鄉(xiāng)老人是目前仍在世的“世界上最長(zhǎng)壽的人”，然后介紹了她的生活習(xí)慣、她的家庭情況和她生活的小鎮(zhèn)素以居民的長(zhǎng)壽而聞名。由此綜合可知答案為B
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