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1、高二英语阅读专项训练（高二英语阅读专项训练（3）（）（4+1） A Healthy people with stressful jobs who work long hours but get little satisfaction from what they do have twice the risk of dying from heart disease as satisfied employees, according to a study. Job stress has been known to cause heart problems in people who already
2、 have cardiovascular disease (心 血管病). Finnish scientists have now shown that even in healthy people the pressures of work can take their toll. High blood pressure, lack of exercise, smoking and being overweight contribute to heart diseasea leading killer in many industrialized countries.But Mika Kiv
3、imaki, of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, and his colleagues, who studied the medical histories of 812 healthy Finnish men and women in a metal industry company over 25 years, said job stress also plays an important role.Workers who had the highest job-related stress levels at the star
4、t of the study were more than twice as likely to die of heart disease, according to the study published in The British Medical Journal. Work stress involves too much work as well as a lack of satisfaction and feeling undervalued and unappreciated. Many people work long hours but if the effort is rew
5、arding the stress is minimized.The British Heart Foundation said the results support earlier research showing that people in jobs with low control, such as manual(体力的) workers, could be as great risk of heart disease than other employees. “ It is advisable for people o try to minimize levels of stre
6、ss at work and for employees to allow people to have more control at work and to be rewarded for their successes,” the foundation said in a statement. 1. Healthy people may die from heart disease of _.A. too much job stress B. working too hard C. feeling valued D. being satisfied 2. Which one of the
7、 following is NOT right according to this passage?A. High blood pressure is likely to cause heart disease.B. Being overweight may cause heart disease. C. Job stress is most likely to cause heart disease.D. Working long hours must cause heart disease. 3. The underlined word “minimized” in the third p
8、aragraph means “_”. A. increased B. reduced C. raised D. cured 4. The authors purpose in writing the passage is to _. A. advise people not to work long hours B. suggest that everyone be satisfied with everything C. ask us to learn to enjoy ourselves D. tell us that job stress threatens our health no
9、wadays. B The American local food movement has been all about buying seasonal food from nearby farmers. Now, thanks to the Web, it is expanding to include far-away farmers too. A new start-up, Foodzie, is an online farmers market where small food producers and growers can sell their products. Foodzi
10、e was started by Mr LaFave and two of his friends, who met during college at Virginia Tech, where they would pay frequent visits to farmers markets. Last year, while living in North Carolina, one of them, Emily Olson, now 24, came up with one idea. She was working as a brand manager for a gourmet gr
11、ocery chain and realized that people who enjoyed fine food but didnt work in the business had no way to discover handmade foods outside their local farmers markets. Small farmers had no way of finding or selling to faraway customers, either.Mr LaFAve and the third co-founder, Nik Bauman, both 25, wo
12、rked in corporate sales and software development. “With business, food and computer science backgrounds, we figured we had everything we needed.” Mr LaFAve said.The three quit their jobs, and opened this site to the public in December and the site has had 43,000 visitors in the past month. So far, 2
13、9 sellers have opened shops and 41 are in the process of opening them. The founders recently hired a fourth employee to help Ms Olson recruit(吸收) new food producers at farmers markets and food shows. Mr LaFAve is convinced that the recession(经济 衰退) will not reduce peoples interest in buying locally
14、grown and handmade food. “There is misunderstanding that all these foods are more expensive than mass-produced alternatives,” he said. “People are pouring their heart and soul into these products, and they are of the highest quality. ” 5. The passage is mainly about _.A. how an online farmers market
15、 works B. the American local food movementC. three youths starting an online farmers marketD. the reasons why people are interested in local food 6. Why did the founders start the online farmers market?A. Because it met the need of the market.B. Because the founders were interested in seasonal food.
16、C. Because some people wanted to buy locally grown foodD. Because farmers wanted to sell their foods. 7. The underlined word in Paragraph 2 can be used to describe _.A. food of high quality B. terrible food C. food of low fat D. fried food 8. About the three founders, we know that _.A. they are of the same age B. they gave
