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重庆市綦江区未来学校联盟2023-2024学年九年级上学期期中考试英语试题
①Cutting down fatty food or exercising more are the most popular ways to lose weight,but have you ever thought about whether our noses play a part in our weight?
②According to a recent study,not being able to smell our food before eating it may cause us to lose weight.
③A team of scientists at the University of California Berkeley,US,came to their conclusion(结论)after studying the result of smell and diet(饮食)on a group of mice.Henry,the lead of the study,said he first believed that mice with no sense of smell didn't feel like eating as much food as the normal mice and end up eating less and became thinner. However,it was discovered that if the mice were unable to smell their food,they didn't put on weight.
④To reach this conclusion,they did an experiment(实验). The first group of the mice was in normal condition. But in the second group,they broke some smelling neuron(神经元)of several mice by using virus(病毒),so their ability to smell was "switched off(关掉)". Both of the two groups were fed the same amounts(数量)of fatty food. At the end of the experiment,those with their smelling ability switched off had not put on weight,while the first group had put on the pounds. The researches also showed that "supersmellers" mice put on the most weight.
⑤That is to say,even if the mice were given the same amount of food,the ones with smelling problems put on less weight. In fact,"Sensory systems(感官系统)play a role in metabolism(新陈代谢). Weight gain(增加)isn't only about the calories(卡路里)taken in;it also has something to do with how those calories are perceived(识别)." Henry told the news.
⑥If it is true in humans,perhaps we can actually make a kind of medicine that doesn't change the smell of people but still stops that metabolic circuitry(线路). That will be amazing.In the future,the findings could play a role in solving health problems such as overweight.In the meantime,however,getting plenty of physical exercise and eating the right foods are still important ways to keep our bodies in shape.
There are a great number of cool things in our modern society. They can make our life a little bit easier and much more fun than before. Let's take a look.
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Welcome to the photo display of unusual animals around the world!
Giraffes usually have brown spots, right? In fact, not all of them! Kenya is home to the white giraffe. Once there were three. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} What a pity!
The frog is named the goliath frog. It is the biggest frog on the earth. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} It lives only in rainforests in West Africa. Most types of frogs find shallow (浅的) pools of water where they will lay their eggs. But the goliath frogs use their powerful legs to dig their own holes.
Did this squirrel fall into the paint? No! The Malabar giant squirrel is born with a beautiful fur coat, with colours of black, orange, brown, even purple and red. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} It seldom comes down to the ground as it's careful by nature. It can grow up to 90 cm long, bigger than the squirrels we usually see.
What a cute spider! It looks a lot like the most famous Pokemon, Pikachu. Only the females (雌性) look like Pikachu. Experts think they use their bright- yellow back to attract insects for them to eat. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} These spiders live in the eastern part of the US and in Central America.
A. This might help it stay safe in forests. B. Unluckily, two of them were killed. C. But they can be hard to see since they're only around 1 cm long. D. It can weigh more than 7 pounds and grow up to 30 cm long. E. Protecting these animals is protecting ourselves. |
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