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选修七 Unit 3阅读理解·组块专练——练速度 (限时：35分钟) Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2016·太原市第二学段测评)Companies can save millions in health-care costs simply by encouraging their employees to exercise a little bit.Researchers report that obese employees have higher health-care costs, but they can lower those expenses by exercising just a couple of times a week — without even losing any weight. Feifei Wang and his colleagues at the University of Michigan studied 23,500 workers at General Motors.They estimated that getting the most obese workers to exercise would have saved about $790,000 a year, or about 1.5 percent of health-care costs for the whole group.Company-wide, the potential savings could reach $7.1 million per year, according to their report published in Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Of the whole group of workers, about 30 percent were of normal weight, 45 percent were overweight, and 25 percent were obese. Annual health-care costs averaged $2,200 for normal weight, $2,400 for the overweight, and $2,700 for obese employees. But among workers who did no exercise, health-care costs went up by at least $100 a year, and were $3,000 a year for obese employees who were sedentary (久坐的)． But adding two or more days of light exercise — at least 20 minutes of exercise or work hard enough to increase heart rate and breathing — lowered costs by on average $500 per employee a year, the researchers found. “This indicates that physical activity behavior could lessen at least some of the negative effects of excess body fat, and in consequence, help lower the increasing health-care costs，” Wang and his colleagues wrote. 语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。公司要降低保健方面的费用，那就应该大力提倡员工多花时间锻炼身体。 1．The researchers believe companies can spend far less on health-care costs by________. A．encouraging employees to lose weight B．limiting the number of obese employees C．persuading employees to do physical activities D．limiting the employment of sedentary workers 解析：选C　细节理解题。根据第一段第一句“Companies can save millions in health-care