核心素养提能练
“阅读理解＋完形填空”组合练
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A new study has discovered that meditation(冥想) and oxygen sport together reduce depression.The Rutgers University study found that this mind and body combination，done twice a week for only two months，reduced the symptoms for a group of students by 40 percent.
“We are excited by the findings becau we have en such a meaningful improvement in both clinically depresd and nondepresd students，” said lead author Dr Brandon Alderman.“It is the first time that both of the two behavioral ways have been looked at together for dealing with depression.”
Rearchers believe the two activities have an interactive effect in combating depression. Alderman and Dr Tracey Shors discovered that a combination of mental and physical trainin
g (MAP) enabled students with major depressive disorder not to let problems or negative thoughts defeat them.
Rutgers rearchers say tho who participated in the study began with 30 minutes of focud attention meditation followed by 30 minutes of oxygen sport.They were told that if their thoughts drifted to the past or the future，they should refocus on their breathing，enabling tho with depression to accept momenttomoment changes in attention.
Shors，who studies the production of new brain cells in the hippocampus—part of the brain involved in memory and learning—says scientists have shown in animal models that oxygen sport exerci keeps a large number of certain cells alive.
The idea for the human intervention(干预) came from her laboratory studies，she says，with the main goal of helping individuals acquire new skills so that they can learn to recover from stressful life events.
By learning to focus their attention and exerci，people who are fighting depression can
acquire new learning skills that can help them process information and reduce the overwhelming recollection of memories from the past，Shors says.
“We know the treatments can be practiced over a lifetime and that they will be effective in improving mental health，” said Alderman.“The good news is that this intervention can be practiced by anyone at any time and at no cost.”
语篇解读 本文是一篇说明文。本文主要介绍了一项研究成果——将冥想和有氧运动结合起来治疗抑郁有很明显的效果。 |
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1．What made the rearch so different?
A．Adopting a way of meaningful talk.
B．Combining the two ways to treat depression.
C．Treating depression with special medicine.
D．Comparing the depresd with the nondepresd.
数字相机答案 B
解析 推理判断题。根据第二段中的“It is the first time that both of the two behavioral ways have been looked at together for dealing with depression.”可知，这项研究第一次将冥想和有氧运动两种途径结合起来治疗抑郁。故选B。
2．The underlined word 日昃是什么意思“combating” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by “ ”．
A．fighting B．identifying
C．distinguishing D．examining
答案 A
解析 词义猜测题。根据第一段可知，将冥想和有氧运动结合起来对治疗抑郁有很明显的效果，以及第三段第二句后半句“瘦腰法使患有抑郁症的学生不被问题或消极思想打败”，因此“combating”的意思应该为“防止；与……作斗争”，与fighting意思一样。故选A。
3．What did the participants do in the rearch?
A．They did oxygen sport half an hour before thinking.
B．They thought quietly and then took exerci.
C．They took exerci longer than they thought.
D．They took exerci while thinking quietly.
答案 B
解析 细节理解题。根据第四段第一句可知，这项研究的参与者先冥想30分钟，然后再做30分钟的有氧运动。故选B。
4．What is Shors’ main purpo of her studies?
A．To find out certain brain cells of humans.
B．To study the production of new brain cells.
C．To offer people a new method to treat stress.
D．To decide the links between stress and exerci.
答案 C
失恋的诗句解析 推理判断题。根据第六段中的“...she says，with the main goal of helping individuals acquire new skills so that they can learn to recover from stressful life events.”可知，Shors 所进行的研究的主要目的是帮助人们获得一些新的应对压力的技能。故选C。
Ⅱ.完形填空
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