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A healthy way of leading a life is through keeping your heart clean. The food intake and exercises you perform to keep your heart healthy and clean are very important. It is a fact that many strive(努力) to lead a healthy lifestyle by sticking to strict diets. But, somehow we fail to refuse our favorite “packaged foods”. These foods are not just harmful but can have a severe effect on health in the long run. Heart is one of the most important and sensitive parts of a human body. It plays a major role in supplying fresh blood to the entire body that keeps us healthy and normal. Therefore, it is very important for us to follow certain healthy routines to keep our heart hale (健壮的) and healthy. Here are a few simple tips that will help you keep a healthy heart:
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Physical health: Exercise regularly
One of the most basic tips is to exercise regularly. Obese people are easier to have heart-related diseases than a person of normal weight. Daily exercise cuts extra fat stored in the body, especially around your waistline. This helps prevent heart-related diseases.
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Maintain correct weight
Many of us try to reduce lots of weight with a wrong assumption that being overweight leads to heart diseases. But the fact is that, even thin people are likely to suffer from heart-related diseases. One should maintain a steady weight and avoid trying to reduce weight unnecessarily.
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Diet factors: Avoid packaged foods
In order to prevent heart diseases, one should avoid “packaged foods”. Anything that comes in a packaged or processed form should be completely avoided. These “packaged foods” not only contain stored fat but also are high in oxidants (氧化剂) because of the processing cycle.
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Cut down on sugar
This could be very difficult to be accepted by people with a sweet tooth. Consuming a high level of sugar on everyday basis risks not only the chances of getting affected by diabetes, but also heart diseases. It is better to replace sugar with either crystal sugar or brown sugar.
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【语篇概述】这是一篇应用文。心脏是人体最重要和最敏感的器官之一, 保护好心脏对于人们防病治病、健康长寿有着重要的意义。
1. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about the heart?
A. It is easy to be infected with virus.
B. It provides fresh blood for your body.
C. It’s one of the most sensitive organs.
D. It has an important effect on your health.
【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据文章第一段“Heart is one of the most important and sensitive. . . that keeps us healthy and normal”可知, 心脏是人体最重要和最敏感的部分之一, 它为全身提供使我们保持健康和正常的新鲜血液。A项在文中找不到依据。
2. If the food is high in oxidants, ________.
A. it may make you get affected by diabetes
B. it will raise your blood pressure gradually
C. it may make you put on weight suddenly
D. it will probably do harm to your health
【解析】选D。推理判断题。根据文中内容可知, 包装食品含有高脂肪和大量氧化剂, 因此作者建议不食用包装食品。由此可知氧化剂可能对身体有害。
3. What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. Harmful effects of heart diseases.
B. Healthy ways to prevent heart diseases.
C. Great benefits of possessing a healthy heart.
D. Important relationships between hearts and routines.
【解析】选B。主旨大意题。这是一篇应用文, 文章主要讲的是拥有健康心脏的方法。第一段最后一句“Here are a few. . . heart”亦是提示。
