Healthy knees aren’t the main consideration in choosing high heels,but new research says chunky heels are just as bad for the knees as spindly stilettos（細(xì)高跟鞋）.“It takes a long time to feel the effects of knee osteoarthritis（骨關(guān)節(jié)炎）—and once you do it,it is too late,”said Dr.Casey Kerrigan,leading researcher of the study and associate professor at Harvard Medical School’s department of physical medicine.“I compare it to smoking—one cigarette is not painful,but over a lifetime it is.Wide-heeled shoes feel comfortable,so women wear them all day long,”Kerrigan said.“They are better for your feet than stiletto heels,but just as bad for your knees.”
In the study,researchers had twenty women wear two pairs of shoes with three-inch heels,one with a narrow heel and the other with a thick one.The scientists compared how much pressure was put on the women’s knees by both types of shoes.The women also walked bare-foot to test normal pressure.The scientists found that both types of shoes applied equal amounts of pressure to the knees.Compared with walking barefoot,the heels increased pressure on the inside of the knee by 26 percent.Increased pressure on the knee eventually leads to arthritis,experts say.
The idea that high heels are bad for your health isn’t new—scientists have warned women for years that they contribute to problems ranging from corns to hammer toes,tendonitis,knee pain,sprained(扭傷)ankles and back problems.But in 1998,Kerrigan and a team of Harvard researchers were the first to link high heels and knee osteoarthritis,a painful joint disease that destroys cartilage(軟骨)surrounding the knee.The first study looked only at stiletto heels,and Kerrigan said she wanted to study the chunky high-heeled shoes she noticed many women wearing.“This study confirms what we all intuitively（直覺地）know that high-heeled shoes of any kind are not good for our health,”said Dr.Glem Pfeffer,a San Francisco doctor and member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons who was not connected to the study.
小題1:We learn from the passage that women choose chunky heels because _________.
A．they want to walk comfortably
B．chunky heeled shoes are cheaper than stiletto heeled pairs
C．chunky heels do less harm to knees
D．chunky heels are not painful at all
小題2:The study mentioned in the second paragraph found that _________.
A．pressure on the foot is caused by high heels
B．the pressure is abnormal while walking barefoot
C．a(chǎn)rthritis is always caused by pressure on the knees
D．both types of shoes have the same harm to the knees
小題3:It can be inferred from the passage that _________.
A．people got to know the high heels are bad for health recently
B．people have known the high heels are bad for health for years
C．people haven’t known the high heels are bad for health yet
D．people will be warned that the high heels are bad for health soon
小題4:Kerrigan’s late study looked at the chunky high-heeled shoes because _________.
A．they feel more comfortable
B．they are related to knee osteoarthritis
C．they are worn by many women
D．they are different from stiletto heels
小題5:The best title for the passage may be _________.
A．Talking Healthy Knees into Consideration
B．High-heels Do Harm to Knees
C．Chunky Heels and Stiletto Heels
D．When Wearing High-heels

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:C
小題5:B

小題1:：細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段中的“Wide?heeled shoes feel comfortable,so women wear them all day long”可知婦女選擇粗高跟鞋是因為粗高跟鞋穿著舒服，A項與此意思相符。
小題2:推理判斷題。從第二段中的“The scientists found that both types of shoes applied equal amounts of pressure to the knees.”可知，兩種高跟鞋給膝關(guān)節(jié)帶來的壓力是等量的，所以它們對膝關(guān)節(jié)的傷害是一樣的。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段開頭“The idea that high heels are bad for your health isn’t new—scientists have warned women for years that...”可知B項與此一致。
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段中的“The first study looked only at stiletto heels,and Kerrigan said she wanted to study the chunky high?heeled shoes she noticed many women wearing.”可見，起初的研究對象只是細(xì)高跟鞋，Kerrigan后來對粗高跟鞋進行調(diào)查研究是因為她注意到許多婦女穿著粗高跟鞋。
小題5:主旨大意題。本文主要論述了鞋跟粗厚的高跟鞋和鞋跟細(xì)高的高跟鞋一樣，都對膝關(guān)節(jié)有損害。所以B選項“高跟鞋傷害膝關(guān)節(jié)”是最佳選項。
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