夏季荣英模拟题106 及答案.doc

Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, and D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) Bob Cavanaugh smokes five cigars a day. This isn’t the (1) ____ characteristics of a 61-year-old who (2) ____ to live to be 120, but Cavanaugh has a secret weapon: he (3) ____ severe calorie restriction. For years there has been (4) ____ that a diet extremely low in calories extends the life (5) ____ of species from mice to monkeys (and a recent study (6) ____ positive results for humans on this type of diet too), and the more we learn about caloric restriction, the more it appears to be (7) ____ of a medical marvel: this week, a study in the journal Science shows that monkeys on a 20-year calorie-restricted diet not only lived (8) ____, but had younger brains and fewer age-related diseases (9) ____ the monkeys that ate a (10) ____ diet. The benefits of a calorie-restricted diet were first seen in humans almost by (11) ____. In 1991 eight scientists entered a man-made, materially closed ecological (12) ____ in Tucson, Ariz., known as Biosphere 2 to study man’s (13) ____ on the ecosystem. The biosphere was unable to produce as much food as the scientists had (14) ____, forcing the researchers (15) ____ a nutrient-packed, extremely low-calorie diet. Roy Walford, the group’s physician and an expert in calorie restriction and aging, noted that (16) ____ weight loss, the group’s mental and physical activity levels were excellent; their blood pressures and cholesterol levels (17) ____. A 2004 study (18) ____ in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences detailed the results of humans who have practiced the calorie-restriction diet for a long period of time. The study’s subjects had lower cardiovascular risk (19) ____, and triglyceride levels were (20) ____ to or lower than Americans in their 20s, despite the fact that all the study’s participants were between the ages of 35 and 82. 01. [A] unusual