卫生类---B级

Eating Potatoes Gives Your Immune System a
Boost
1. What form of potato is the most nutrient to
the human body?

A Potato
soup.
B
Potato cake.

C Potato
salad.
D Hot boiled potato.
2. What does the reduction in leucocyte levels
in the body mean?

A It may mean the reduced levels of
inflammation.
B
It may mean somewhere in the body is
inflamed.

C It means
that the body is challenged.

D It means that the body cannot produce
leucocytes any more.
3. For what a purpose did the researchers use
raw potato starch in their experiment?

A They Wanted to observe how the leucocyte levels
reduced in the experimental pigs.

B They wanted to simulate the effects of a diet
high in resistant starch.

C They wanted
to see how much potato an experimental pig ate every day.

D They wanted to see how much body weight each
experimental pig gained in the end.
4. All of the following foods are rich in
resistant starch EXCEPT

A
pasta
B grains

C
legumes
D vegetables
5. What a kind of starch is resistant starch
after all?

A It may cause irritable bowel syndrome.

B It may bring about at least partially
inflammatory disorder.

C It may raise leucocyte and lymphocyte levels in
the body.

D It cannot be digested in the small intestine
and ferments in the large intestine.

Human Heart Can Make
New Cells
1. The human heart stops producing cardiac
cells

A when a person is born.

B when a person becomes
old.

C when a person gets sick.

D when a person dies.
2. The finding could prove to be helpful
to

A the study of longstanding mysteries.

B the analysis of cardiac cells.

C the prevention of chronic diseases.

D the treatment of heart diseases.
3. In people who' re in their mid-70s, only
0.45 percent of cardiomyocytes

A are still functional.

B are replaced each year.

C are lost each year.

D are damaged each year.
4. Chronic heart failure is associated
with

A the death of heart cells.

B the life span of a person.

C the effects of pharmaceuticals.

D the weight of the patient.
5. It remains unknown whether the rate of cell
turnover in diseased hearts

A changes over time.

B can be monitored.

C is the same as that in healthy hearts.

D is high enough to replace cells faster than
they're dying off.

Adaptation of Living Things
1. Some plants and animals develop superior
characteristics so that they may
A. help
others of their kind get food, shelter and other things needed.
B.
survive even in extremelysevere conditions.
C. become
better adapted to the environments than others of their kind.
D. result
in the evolution and production of more intelligent organisms.
2. In the first paragraph, the word
"environments" could best be replaced by
A.
contexts.

B.
surroundings.
C.
neighbors.

D.
enemies.
3. It can be inferred from this passage that
the feathers of a bird are colored
A. to
frighten its enemies.

B.
to attract its enemies.
C. to
adjust is body heat.

D.
to match its environment.
4. Which of the following is not directly
mentioned in the passage?
A. A
living thing may adapt in its structure.
B. An
organism may adapt in its function.
C. A
living creature may adapt in its genetic makeup.
D. A
living organism may adapt in its sleeping habit.
5. The author cites the behavior of
warm-blooded mammals in order to that a living thing may have
the ability
A. to
create an environment of its own.

B. to remain still when an
enemy is near.
C. to
make food from inorganic chemicals.

D. to change the color of its
skin.

FDA: Human, Animal
Waste Threatens Produce
1. "Food-borne diseases" in this essay means
those diseases
A. which
people get by eating fruits which have been polluted
B. which
people get by eating too many kinds of food.
C. which
many kinds of fruit get when polluted by feces.
D. which
fruit-growers get by their failure to keep themselves clean.
2. Some fruit grower groups believe that most
food-borne diseases are caused by
A. growers' lack of attention to personal hygiene.
B. lack of effective guidelines.
C. the
FDA's decision to import more foreign fruits and vegetables.
D. people
involved in distributing fresh produce.
3. An FDA official said that putting the
guidelines into practice
A. would be too costly to be effective.

B.
would not cost any money.
C. would not be very
expensive.
D. would needs lots of money.
4. Consumer groups criticized the FDA
guidelines because they didn't think that these guidelines
A. had
won enough support from the farmers.

B. had been written with strict
regulations.
C. would
surely be carried out.

D. included new technology.
5. The last paragraph suggests that
A. some tricks need to be adopted to encourage foreign growers
to follow the FDA guidelines.
B. a good
way should be found to encourage foreign growers to follow the FDA
guidelines.
C.
foreign growers consider the guidelines to be of great importance
to them.
D. it is
almost impossible to ask foreign farmers to follow the
guidelines.

Silent and
Deadly
1. Which of the following is NOT true of
mini-strokes?
A. The
cause of them remains unidentified.


B. They seldom cause permanent neurological damage.
C. They
symptoms of them are often passing.


D. They are not unrelated to major strokes.
2. To prevent mini-strokes from turning into
major strokes, it is important to
A. save
thousands of
lives.

B. avoid major disability.
C. seek
prompt medical
treatment.

D. prevent future injury.
3. The passage indicates that the symptoms of
mini-strokes
A. are
always easy to
spot.

B. are frequently hard to recognize.
C.
usually last a couple of days.

D. can by no means be avoided.
4. All of the following may be signs of
mini-strokes EXCEPT for
A.
trouble seeing in one eye.

B.
numbness in the face.
C. loss
of coordination.

D. severeheadache caused by external injury.
5. It can be inferred from the passage that
mini-strokes are
A. more
dangerous than major
strokes.

B. silent and deadly.
C.
difficult to
cure.

D.
sure to lead to major strokes.
Early or Later Day
Care
1. Which of the following statements would
Bowlby support?


A. Statistical studies should be carried out to assess the positive
effect of day care for children at
the age of three or older.


B. Early day care can delay the occurrence of mentalillness in
children.


C. The first three years of one's life is extremely important to
the later development of personality.


D. Children under three get used to the life at nursery schools
more readily than children over three
2. Which of the following is derivable from
Bowlby's work?


A. Mo thers should not send their children to day care centers
until they are three years of older.


B. Day care nurseries have positive effects on a child's
development.


C. A child sent to a day care center before the age of three may
have emotional problems in late life.


D. Day care would not be so popular if it has noticeable negative
effects on a child's personality.
3. It is suggested that modern societies
differ from traditional societies in that


A. the parents-child relationship is more exclusive in modern
societies.


B. a child more often grows up with his/her brothers or sisters in
traditional societies.


C. mother brings up children with the help of her husband in
traditional societies.



D. children in modern societies are more likely to develop mental
illness in later years.
4. Which of the following statements is NOT an
argument against Bowlby's theory?


A. Many studies show that day care has a positive effect on
children's development


B. Day care is safe; otherwise there wouldn't be so many nursery
schools.


C. Separation from parents for very young children is common in
some traditional societies.


D. Parents find the immediate effects of early day care difficult
to deal with.
5. Which of the following best expresses the
writer's attitude towards early day care?


A. Children under three should stay with heir parents.


B. Early day care has positive effects on children's
development.


C. The issue is controversial and its settlement calls for the use
of statistics.


D. The effects of early day care on children are exaggerated and
parents should ignore the issue.

Obesity
1. What is obesity?


A. Obesity is having fat tissue under the
skin.
B. Obesity is having fat tissue around organs.


C. Obesity is being too
fat
D. Obesity is having good health.
2. If we say that "fat is critical for good
health," we mean that

A.
fat people should be criticized.

B.
fat is very important for people to keep healthy.


C. people should be fat if they want to be
healthy.


D. too much fat in the body is associated with
health problems.
3. If a woman is 1.6m tall and weighs 49 kg,
she
A. is considered within the desirable
weight-height range. B. is definitely unhealthy.


C. should be considered fat.

D. should not be considered unhealthy.
4. A heavy man

A.
certainly has a lot of fat in him.

B.
usually has a sedentary lifestyle.

C.
certainly has a lot muscle in him.

D. may have muscletissue that weighs more than fat.
5. According to this article, fat people may
be

A.
looked down upon by
others.

B.
welcomed by others.

C.
considered severely ill.

D.
thought of having special problems.

After-birth Depression
Blamed for Woman's Suicide
1. Which of the following is NOT a symptom of
postpartum psychosis?


A. Visions.

B. Delusions.


C. Inflamed breast.

D. Serious sleeplessness.
2. It was considered fortunate by Stokes'
mother in the miserable event


A. that Stokes had died in a Chicago hotel.
B. that firemen had been called to help
Stokes.


C. that Stokes had been taking the prescribed medicines.


D. that Stokes had not taken her daughter with her.
3. A patient suffering from "baby blues" may
present briefly one or more of the following symptoms EXCEPT


A. having an intention of suicide.


B. readily becoming impatient or angry.


C. easily changing her moods.


D. tending to experience weeping and sadness.
4. How many bearing women have experiences of
after-birth depression?


A. Virtually all of them.

B. About one fifth of them.

C.
Less than one percent of them.

D.
Not mentioned exactly in the passage.
5. Who induced the most serious consequence
among the postpartum depression patients mentioned in the
passage?


A. Melanie Stokes of Chicago.

B. Sheryl Masip of California.
C. Latrena Pixley of Washington, D.C..

D. Judy Kirby of Indianapolis.

Diseases of
Agricultural Plants
1. How many diseases are known to attack
wheat?

A.
Around 30, 000.

B. Around 140.

C.
Around 29, 960.

D. Around 40.
2. According to this passage, which of the
following would a plant disease result in if left unchecked?

A.
A world war.

B. Border conflicts.

C.
Rations of grain and meat.

D. Social upheavals.
3. What is the main idea of the second
paragraph?

A.
Some plants have relativeimmunity to a great many diseases, while
others have a susceptibility to
them.

B.
The tolerance of a particular plant changes as the growing
conditions change.


C. A blight killed virtually every chestnut tree
in North America.

D.
A blight may be a national infection.
4. According to the passage, some plant
diseases can be prevented by
A. killing parasites.

B. inoculation.

C.
killing insects.


D.
improving growing conditions.
5. Which of the following statements is not
true?

A.
Some plant diseases may be caused by bacteria.
B. Some plant diseases may be caused by
pathogens.