Healthy Habits, Healthy Body
Feel tired lately? Has a doctor said he can’t find anything wrong with you? Perhaps he sent you to a hospital, but all the advanced equipment there shows that there is nothing wrong with you.
Then, consider this: you might be in a state of subhealth(亚健康).
Subhealth, also called the third state or gray state, is explained as a borderline state between health and disease.
According to the investigation by the National Health Organization, over 45 percent of subhealthy people are middle-aged or elderly. The percentage is even higher among people who work in management positions as well as students around exam-weeks.
Symptoms(征兆)include a lack of energy, depression(压抑), slow reactions, insomnia(失眠), agitation, and poor memory. Other symptoms include shortness of breath, sweating and aching in the waist and legs.
The key to preventing and recovering from subhealth, according to some medical experts, is to form good living habits, alternate work and rest, exercise regularly, and take part in open air activities.
As for meals, people are advised to eat less salt and sugar. They should also eat more fresh vegetables, fruits, fish because they are rich in nutritional elements — vitamins and trace elements that are important to the body.
Nutrition(营养) experts point out that it is not good to eat too much at one meal because it may cause unhealthy changes in the digestive tract(消化系统). They also say that a balanced diet is very helpful in avoiding subhealth.
1. According to this passage, which of the following is right?
A. When you are in a state of subhealth, you should stay home and keep silent.
B. When you are in a state of subhealth, you should go to see a doctor and buy some medicine.
C. When you are in a state of subhealth, you should have yourself examined in foreign countries.
D. When you are in a state of subhealth, you should find out the reasons and relax yourself.
2. It may be easy for middle-aged people to be in a state of subhealth because _______.
A. they have used up their energy B. they have lost their living hopes
C. they have more pressure in life and work D. they begin to get older
3. The key to preventing you from falling into a state of subhealth is that you should _______.
A. work hard B. sleep more C. form good living habits D. take more medicine
4. As for food, experts suggest that _______.
A. we should never eat meat B. we should have variety of food
C. we should eat less than usual D. we should have meals without salt to sugar
5. The underlined word “alternate” in this passage is closest in meaning to _______.
A. arrange by turns B. cause to take place C. keep up D. take up
【答案解析】本文介绍了亚健康的症状、原因及对策。
1. D。细节题。根据全文及第五、六段可知得了亚健康不是呆在家里、不是去看医生、也不是到国外去检查，而应该找到症状、形成好的生活习惯，故知答案为 D。
2. C。推断题。根据第 4 段及常识可推知中年人易得亚健康是因为来自生活和工作的压力更大，故选 C。
3. C。细节题。根据原文The key to preventing and recovering from subhealth, …is to form good living habits 可知答案就是 C。
4. B。细节题。根据倒数第 2 段 As for meals,…They should also eat more fresh vegetables,… 可知食物要富于变化，所以 B 为正确答案。
5. A。词义猜测题。根据医学专家的建议是形成好的生活习惯 “alternate” work and rest, 可知是轮流工作和休息，故 A 为最佳答案。
