2024届高三英语二轮复习China Daily语篇型填空专项训练10-（含答案）

China Daily语篇型填空专项训练10 Slow walkers have slower minds, scientists reveal Passage 1 Of all human 1. (active), few are so readily credited with 2. (enhance) the power of the mind 3. going for a good walk. However, those 4. assume that strolling along at a gentle pace is the hallmark(特点) of superior intellect should think again, scientists have said. In fact, 5. (base) on a new series of experiments, they now believe the slower a person’s 6. (tend) to walk, the less able their brain. Researchers performed gait(步态)-speed analysis 7. hundreds of middle-aged people, 8. (compare) the results with a range of physical and psychological measures. Doctors have long used walking speed 9. (gain) a quick and reliable insight into older people’s cognitive capability, as it is increasingly recognized that gait is associated 10. not only musculoskeletal mechanisms but also the central nervous system. Passage 2 Until now, 1. , no one knew it could signify underlying brain health so much earlier in life. The correlation was so stark, however, that the US 2. (science) now say walking tests could be used 3. (provide) an early indication of dementia(痴呆). 4. (publish) in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study 5. (reveal) an average difference of 16 IQ points 6. the slowest and the fastest walkers at the age of 45. This 7. (reflect) both the participants’ natural walking speed 8. the pace they achieved when asked to walk as fast as they could. Those with a slower gait also scored less well in both physical exercises, such as hand-grip strength and visual-motor coordination tests, as well as biological markers of poor health. In the study, slower walkers were 9. (show) to have “accelerated aging” on a 19-measure scale devised 10. researchers, and their lungs, teeth and immune systems tended to be in worse shape than the people who walked faster. Passage 3 The team 1. Duke University 2. North Carolina said genetic factors may explain the link 3. walking speed, brain capacity and physiological health, or that better brain health might promote physical activity, 4. (lead) to better walking speed. “The thing that’s really 5. (strike) is that this is in 45-year-old people, not the geriatric(老人的) patients 6. are usually 7. (assess) with such measures,” said Dr Line Rasmussen, who led the research. The 904 New Zealand men and women who were tested at 45 were tracked from the age of three, each undergoing multiple tests over the years. The long-term data 8. (collect) enabled researchers to establish that toddlers with lower IQ scores, linguistic ability, capacity to tolerate 9. (frustrate), motor skills and 10. (emotion) control tended to have slower gait-speeds by middle age. Passage 4 MRI exams during their final 1. (assess) at 45 showed the slower walkers tended 2. (have) lower total brain volume, lower mean cortical thickness, less brain surface area and higher incidence of white matter “hyperintensities”. "3. short, their brai ... ...