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1、班戈县2023年考研英语一模拟预测试卷Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)As a child, I was always told to “eat my greens”. These were the unappealing vegetables that sat on the edge of my plat
2、e. Peas, and green beans, all looked and tasted 1 . Lets face it, when there were so many other delicious treats to 2 , why eat boring vegetables?Since then my taste buds have 3 and Im also fully aware of the health benefits of eating fresh vegetables. But we still need 4 of the amazing goodness the
3、se green super foods give us. In the UK, a campaign has been 5 for several years to encourage us to eat our “5 A Day”five portions of fruit and vegetables. Thats 6 evidence has shown there are significant health 7 to getting at least five 80g portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables every day.B
4、ut I struggle trying to fit these five portions into my daily 8 , partly because I have a sweet 9 and vegetables are, well, tasteless. Researchers have been 10 how to make eating vegetables more 11 . They analysed the psychology behind our food 12 and found that most of us are 13 by taste. Brad Turn
5、wald from Stanford University says that “studies show that people 14 to think of healthier options as less tasty for some reason.”In Europe, a project called VeggieEAT has also been trying to find ways to get people to 15 more vegetables. Project leader, Professor Heather Hartwell believes in 16 enc
6、ouraging people into eating the right things. One idea has been to put a 17 of a tasty looking fruit on a supermarket trolley as a 18 about buying something from the fruit store. She says, “Choice is a really 19 thing. But making vegetables look attractive will increase their sales.”Certainly, eatin
7、g “twisted citrus-glazed carrots” does sound tempting, even if it just 20 like a carrot, but if it makes us eat more vegetables then that can only be a good thing for our health.1、Adelicious Bdisgusting Cripen Dsweet2、Abuy Bprepare Cenjoy Doffer3、Adeveloped Bappeared Cexisted Dshrank4、Atalking Binfo
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10、tesSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1Is there a way to turn back the aging process in people? For centuries, people have been looking f
11、or a “fountain of youth.” The idea is that if you find a magical fountain, and drink its water, you will not age.Researchers in New York did not find an actual fountain of youth, but they may have found a way to turn back the aging process. It appears that the answer may be called the hypothalamus,
12、which is part of your brain. It controls important body activities, including growth, the way we process food and so on.Researchers at New Yorks Albert Einstein College of Medicine found that hypothalamus neural stem cells (干细胞) also influence how fast aging takes place.Dongsheng Cai, a professor at
13、 the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, was the leading researcher in a study on aging in mice. He and his team reported their findings.“Aging speed can be controlled by a particular place in the body, which is the hypothalamus. And it can be controlled by a particular type of cells, which are hyp
14、othalamus stem cells.” He adds that when the hypothalamus starts aging, so does the body. So when hypothalamus function is in decline, particularly the loss of hypothalamus stem cells, and this protection against the aging development is lost, it eventually leads to aging.Using this information, the
15、 researchers began trying to activate the hypothalamus in laboratory mice. They did this by injecting the animals with stem cells.The researchers say the results show that the treatment slowed aging in the animals. “When we injected the hypothalamus stem cells to the middle-aged mice, the mice aged slowly and they can also live longe
