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北京市平谷区2020届九年级上学期英语期末考试试卷

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    A new research has discovered that meditation(冥想)and oxygen sport together reduce depression(抑郁). The Rutgers University study found that this mind and body combination, done twice a week for only two months, reduced the symptoms of a group of students by 40 percent.

    "We are excited by the findings because we saw such a meaningful improvement in both clinically depressed and non-depressed students, "said lead author Dr. Brandon Alderman." It is the first time that both of these two behavioral ways have been looked at together for dealing with depression."

    Researchers believe the two activities have an interactive(交互的)effect in combating depression. Alderman and Dr. Tracey Shors discovered that a combination of mental and physical training( MAP) enabled students with major depressive disorder not to let problems or negative thoughts defeat them.

    Rutgers researchers say those who participated in the study began with 30 minutes of focused 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, which enabled those with depression to accept moment-to-moment 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 exercise 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 exercise, 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 these treatments can be practiced over a lifetime and that they will be affective 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."

(1)、What made the research so different?
A、Adopting a way of meaningful talk. B、Treating depression with special medicine. C、Combining the two ways to reduce depression. D、Comparing the depressed with the non-depressed.
(2)、The underlined word "combasting" in Paragraph 3 probably means __________.
A、fighting B、developing C、improving D、examining
(3)、What can we know about what the participants did in the research?
A、They did oxygen sport half an hour before thinking. B、They thought quietly and then took exercise. C、They took exercise longer than they thought. D、They took exercise while thinking quietly.
(4)、What is Shors' main purpose 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 reduce stress. D、To decide the links between stress and exercise.
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    Maybe a lot of thin people will be worried about their health if the inside fat matters.

    Some doctors now think that the inside fat around important organs like the heart or liver could be as dangerous as the outside fat which can be noticed more easily.

    "Being thin doesn't surely mean you are not fat," said Dr Jimmy Bell at Imperial College. Since 1994, Bell and his team have tested nearly 800 people with MRI to create "fat maps" showing where people store fat.

    According to the result, people who keep their weight through the food they usually eat rather than exercise are likely to have major deposits (堆积物) of inside fat, even if they are thin.

   Even people with normal Body Mass Index (体重指数) scores can have surprising levels of fat deposits inside. Of the women, as many as 45 per cent of those with normal BMI scores (20 to 25) actually had too high levels of inside fat. Men were nearly 60 per cent.

    According to Bell, people who are fat on the inside are actually on the edge of being fat. They eat too many fatty and sugary foods, but they are not eating enough to be fat. Scientists believe we naturally store fat around the stomach first, but at some point, the body may start storing it elsewhere.

    Doctors are unsure about the exact dangers of inside fat, but some think it has something to do with heart disease and diabetes (糖尿病). They want to prove that inside fat does harm to the body's communication systems.

    The good news is that inside fat can be easily burned off through exercise or even by improving your eating habits. "If you want to be healthy, there is no other way. Exercise has to be an important part of your lifestyle," Bell said.

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