Smaller than your fist, your healthy heart just goes on and on. It will beat more than 60 times a minute for 70 years or more. That’s something that most of us take for granted. But it’s an amazing fact.
60 times a minute for 60 minutes is 3,600 times. What physical thing can most of us do 3,600 times in one hour? Blink? Maybe. Tap our fingers on the desk? No. Jump up and down? Certainly not! But our heart keeps beating, hour after hour. Every day, it pumps almost 2,000 gallons of blood through our blood vessels(血管). It takes you about five years to drink 2,000 gallons of water.
And, unlike your knees or your back, your heart does all this work without ever complaining（抱怨）! You never know that it’s even there. Your heart is such a reliable “silent partner” that people forget to care for it. For many, the first indication（跡象）that their heart isn’t working properly is a serious heart illness! Over 650,000 Americans die of some kind of heart disease every year. Cancer kills 560,000, stroke kills 143,000, and accidents kill 118,000 Americans annually.
Like accidental deaths, many heart disease-related deaths can be avoided if people simply follow the advice of the experts. Unfortunately, most people seem to listen to a little voice in their head that says, “It won’t happen to me. ” So these people keep on smoking and drinking. They continue to eat too much meat. And their only “exercise” is getting off the sofa to get something out of the fridge. Please follow the following steps to keep your heart healthy.
小題1:The text is most probably taken from a (an) __________.
A．a(chǎn)rt bookB．science fiction
C．healthy magazine D．psychology book
小題2:Which of the following physical activities can keep going on and on?
A．Blink.B．Jump.C．Finger tap.D．Heart beat.
小題3:According to the numbers mentioned in paragraph 3, we can know __________.
A．Accidents can be the biggest “killer” in America every year.
B．In America, heart disease causes the highest death rate annually.
C．Cancer causes more threat than any other diseases for Americans.
D．Recently, nobody died of stroke or heart disease in America.
小題4:What do we know about our healthy hearts?
A．our healthy hearts work with many complains as our knees.
B．our healthy hearts can pump 3,600 gallons of blood everyday.
C．our healthy hearts are smaller than our fists.
D．our healthy hearts can beat 60 times in one hour.
小題5: What do you think the next paragraph is about?
A．Some tips for keeping a healthy heart.
B．Some suggestions for avoiding accidental deaths.
C．Some reasons for doing regular exercise.
D．Some exercise for keeping a healthy lifestyle.

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:C
小題5:A

試題分析：文章主要介紹了和我們的心臟有關(guān)的一些知識(shí)，強(qiáng)調(diào)了它在我們生活中發(fā)揮的不可忽視的作用，并呼吁我們盡早保護(hù)心臟，而不要到時(shí)候再后悔。
小題1:主旨大意題。文章主要介紹和心臟有關(guān)的知識(shí)，倡導(dǎo)健康的生活方式，可知是從健康雜志上出現(xiàn)的文章，所以選擇C
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第一段your healthy heart just goes on and on，可知心跳是可以一直不停的持續(xù)下去的，所以選擇D
小題3:推斷題。根據(jù)第三段列舉的幾個(gè)數(shù)字，可知心臟病造成的死亡是美國(guó)死亡人數(shù)中占最多的，所以選擇B
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第一段的Smaller than your fist, your healthy heart just goes on and on，可知心臟比拳頭還需要小，所以選C
小題5:推斷題。根據(jù)文章最后一句話Please follow the following steps to keep your heart healthy.，可知接下來(lái)要介紹有關(guān)心臟健康的貼士，所以選A
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