《安徽省凤阳县艺荣高复学校2015届高三英语阅读理解限时训练 70》.docVIP

安徽省凤阳县艺荣高复学校2015届高三英语阅读理解限时训练（35） A Eat nuts every day, and you will keep heart disease away． This is the conclusion some medical researchers have recently reached after a six - year study on 34,000 people in California with focus on their dietary habits and heart diseases． Compared with someone who never cares for nuts, the one who eats nuts such as peanuts and walnuts （ at least once a day has only 47 per cent chance of having heart trouble, according to one of the researchers． Another report states that 60 per cent of all those who eat nuts regularly like to chew peanut either during or between meals． This led the researchers to believe that the more regularly one sticks to the habit of eating nuts, the less will be his chance of getting heart disease． 41．Scientists began to study the relation of peoples dietary habits and heart diseases at least ____years ago． A．three B．four C．five D．six 42．Peanuts and walnuts are two kinds of ____ ． A．plastics B．fruits C．animals D．flowers 43．The 34, 000 people are ____ people． A．Chinese B．Japanese C．Italian D．American B The Touchstone When the great library of Alexandria burned, the story goes, one book was saved．But it was not a valuable book, and so a poor man, who could read a little, bought it for very little money． The book wasnt very interesting, but between its pages there was something very interesting indeed．It was a thin strip of vellum （） on which was written the secret of the Touchstone ! The touchstone was a small pebble （） that could turn any common metal into pure gold． The writing explained that it was lying among thousands and thousands of other pebbles that looked exactly like it．But the secret was this: The real pebble would feel warm, while ordinary pebbles are cold． So the man sold his few belongings, bought some simple supplies, camped on the seashore, and began testing pebbles．He knew that if he picked up ordinary pebbles and thre