落堕市安心阳光实验学校密云区2014高考英语阅读理解系列训练（4）及答案
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Healthy knees aren't the main consideration in choosing high heels，but new rearch says chunky heels are just as bad for the knees as spindly stilettos(细高跟鞋)．“It takes a long time to feel the effects of knee osteoarthritis (骨关节炎)—and once you do it，it is too late，” said Dr.Cay Kerrigan，leading rearcher of the study and associate professor at Harvard Medical School'罗定皱纱鱼腐
s department of physical medicine.“I compare it to smoking—one cigarette is not painful，but over a lifetime it is.Wideheeled 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，rearchers had twenty women wear two pairs of shoes with threeinch 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 barefoot to test normal pressure.The scientists found that both types of shoes applied equal amounts of pressure to the knees.Compared wi项目来源怎么写
th walking barefoot，the heels incread pressure on the inside of the knee by 26 percent.Incread pressure on the knee eventually leads to arthritis，experts say.
The idea that high heels are bad for your health isn't newscientists have warned women for years that they contribute to 自动化的英文
problems ranging from corns to hammer toes，tendonitis，knee pain，sprained(扭伤)ankles and back problems.But in 1998，Kerrigan and a team of Harvard rearchers were the first to link high heels and knee osteoarthritis，a painful joint dia that destroys cartilage(软骨)surrounding the knee.The first study looked only at stiletto heels，and Kerrigan said she wanted to study the chunky highheeled shoes she noticed many women wearing.“This study confirms what we all intuitively(直觉地)know that highheeled 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.
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Ⅱ.根据所读短文，选择最佳选项
1．We learn from the passage that women choo chunky heels becau ________.
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
2．The study mentioned in the cond paragraph found that ________.
A．pressure on the foot is caud by high heels
B．the pressure is abnormal while walking barefoot
C．arthritis is always caud by pressure on the knees
D．both types of shoes have the same harm to the knees
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
4．Kerrigan's late study looked at the chunky highheeled shoes becau ________.
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
5．The best title for the passage may be ________.
A．Talking Healthy Knees into Consideration
B．Highheels Do Harm to Knees
C．Chunky Heels and Stiletto Heels
D．When Wearing Highheels
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The passage discuss the idea that high heels have bad effects on the knees by surveying and showing some facts and the reasons for it，so when choosing high heels we should consider our healthy knees.
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1．解析：细节理解题。根据第一段中的“Wide heeled背影图片女
shoes feel comfortable，so women wear them all day long”可知妇女选择粗高跟鞋是因为粗高跟鞋穿着舒服，A项与此意思相符。
答案：A
2．解析：推理判断题。从第二段中的“The scientists found that both types of shoes applied equal amounts of pressure to the knees.”可知，两种高跟鞋给膝关节带来的压力是等量的，所以它们对膝关节的伤害是一样的。
答案：D
3．解析：细节理解题。根据第三段开头“The idea that high heels are bad for your health isn't new—scientists have warned women for ”可知B项与此一致。
答案：B
4．解析：细节理解题。根据第三段中的“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.”可见，起初的研究对象只是细高跟鞋，Kerrigan后来对粗高跟鞋进行调查研究是因为她注意到许多妇女穿着粗高跟鞋。
答案：C
5．解析：主旨大意题。本文主要论述了鞋跟粗厚的高跟鞋和鞋跟细高的高跟鞋一样，都对膝关节有损害。所以B选项“高跟鞋伤害膝关节”是最佳选项。
答案：B
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