职称英语B2021年职称英语卫生类B级考试押题考前冲刺训练4.doc

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1、职称英语B 2021年职称英语卫生类B级考试押题考前冲刺训练4 阅读理解(第3145题，每题3分，共45分)第一篇Happy Therapy (诊疗)Norman Cousins was a businessman from the United States who often traveled around the world on business.He enjoyed his work and traveling.Then, after returning to tile United States from a busy and tiring trip to Russia, Mr.C

2、ousins 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.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

3、 at night.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.Mr.Cousins thought that unhappy thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body.He did not want to take medicine to cure h

4、imself.Instead, he felt that happy thoughts or laughter might cure his illness.He began to e_periment 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.

5、Deciding that the doctors could not help him, Mr.Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could continue his e_periments 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 ti

6、red.Within three weeks, he felt well enough to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for e_ercise.After a few months, Mr.Cousins returned to work He had laughed himself back to health.1Mr.Cousins got sick after returning fromAa busy trip to the US.Ba tiring trip to Russi

7、a.Ca trip around the world.Da trip to Puerto Rico.2How did the doctors respond to Mr.Cousins illness?AThey promised to cure him.BThey didnt think he was really sick.CThey told him not to give up hope.DThey said they were unable to help him in any way.3Mr.Cousins attributed the bad chemical changes i

8、n his body toAunhappy thoughts.Ba severe illness.Cweak bones.Dtoo much sleep.4What didnt Mr.Cousins do in his e_periments with laughter?AWatch funny TV shows.BRead funny books.CSleep whenever he felt tired.DTake medicine.5Mr.Cousins cured his own illnessAby laughing at others.Bby acting in funny sho

9、ws.Cby taking a happy therapy.Dby writing funny stories.第二篇Forty May Be the New 30 as Scientists Redefine AgeIs 40 really the new 30?In many ways people today act younger than their parents did at the same age.Scientists have defined a new age concept and believe it could e_plain why populations are

10、 aging, but at the same time seem to be getting younger.Instead of measuring aging by how long people have lived, the scientists have factored in how many more years people can probably still look forward to.Using that measure, the average person can get younger in the sense that he or she can have

11、even more years to live as time goes on, said Warren Sanderson of the University of New York in Stony Brook.He and Sergei Scherbov of the Vienna Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, have used their method to estimate how the proportion of elderly people in Germany, Japan and

12、the United States will change in the future.The average German was 39.9 years old in 20_0 and could plan to live for another 39.2 years, according to research reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday.However, by 2050 the average German will be 51.9 years old and will be e_pected to live another 3

13、7.1 years.So middle age in 2050 would occur at around 52 years instead of 40 years as in 20_0.As people have more and more years to live they have to save more and plan more and they effectively are behaving as if they were younger, said Sanderson.Five years ago, the average American was 35.3 years

14、old and could plan for 43.5 more years of life.By 2050, the researchers estimate it will increase to 41.7 years and 45.8 future years.A lot of our skills, our education， our savings and the way we deal with our health care depend a great deal on how many years we have to live, said Sanderson.This di

15、mension of how many years we have to live has been completely ignored in the discussion of aging so far.6People 40 years of age today seem to be as young asAtheir parents were at the same age.Btheir parents were at the age of 30.Ctheir children will be at the same age.Dtheir children will be at the

16、age of 30.7The new age concept takes into account the factor ofAfuture years.Baverage years.Cpast years.Dschool years.8In 20_0, middle age for the average German occurredAat 37.1 years.Bat 40 years.Cat 39.2 years.Dat 52 years.9By 20_2, the average American will live toAthe age of 41.7.Bthe age of 45.8.Cthe age of 78.8.Dthe age of 87.5.10Which is NOT affected by the number of years we have to live?AOur education.BOur savings.CThe way we handle our health care.DThe number of years we have lived.第 6 页 共 6 页