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1、2016全国大学英语四级考试试卷阅读（三） Part III Reading Comprehension Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your
2、choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Physical activity does the body good, and theres growing evidence that
3、it helps the brain too. Researchers in the Netherlands report that children who get more exercise, whether at school or on their own, 26 to have higher GPAs and better scores on standardized tests. In a 27 of 14 studies that looked at physical activity and academic 28 , investigators found that the
4、more children moved, the better their grades were in school, 29 in the basic subjects of math, English and reading. The data will certainly fuel the ongoing debate over whether physical education classes should be cut as schools struggle to 30on smaller budgets. The arguments against physical educat
5、ion have included concerns that gym time may be taking away from study time. With standardized test scores in the U.S. 31in recent years, some administrators believe students need to spend more time in the classroom instead of on the playground. But as these findings show, exercise and academics may
6、 not be 32 exclusive. Physical activity can improve blood 33 to the brain, fueling memory, attention and creativity, which are 34 to learning. And exercise releases hormones that can improve 35 and relieve stress, which can also help learning. So while it may seem as if kids are just exercising thei
7、r bodies when theyre running around, they may actually be exercising their brains as well. A)attendance E)dropping I)mood M)review B)consequently F)essential J)mutually N)survive C)current G)feasible K)particularly O)tend D)depressing H)flow L)performance Section B Directions: In this section, you a
8、re going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by
9、marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. Finding the Right Home and Contentment, Too A When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-term care facility a moment few parents or children approach without fearwhat you would like is to have everything made clear. B Does assisted
10、 living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded stereotype （固定看法 ) Can doing ones homework really steer families to the best places It is genuinely hard to know. C
11、 I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed. And that the characteristics adult children look for when they begin the search are not necessarily the things that make a difference to the people who
12、are going to move in. I am not talking about the quality of care, let me hastily add. Nobody flourishes in a gloomy environment with irresponsible staff and a poor safety record. But an accumulating body of research indicates that some distinctions between one type of elder care and another have lit
13、tle real bearing on how well residents do. D The most recent of these studies, published in The journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living, nursing homes and smaller residential care homes （known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes).
14、Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities. E “We thought we would see differences based on the housing types,” s
15、aid the lead author of the study, Julie Robison, an associate professor of medicine at the university. A reasonable assumption dont families struggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they cant F In the initial results, assisted living residents did paint the most positive picture. The
16、y were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely. They scored higher on social interaction. G But when the researchers plugged in a number of other variables, such differences disappeared. It is not the housing type, they found, that creates differences in residents responses. “It is the characteristics of the specific environm
