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PAGE 8 2016年4月24日学位英语考试真题答案解析-阅读理解（统考卷） 　　Passage One 　　The new year brought new desks for students at Vallecito ElementarySchool, in San Rafael, California. The last three of the schools 22 classroomsswitched from seated desks to standing desks. “Its now the first all-standingschool,” Juliet Starrett told TFK. She started the group StandUp Kids. Her goalis to have every U.S. public school kid using a standing desk within the next10 years. 　　Starretts daughters—Georgia, 10, and Caroline, 7—attend Vallecito.They are thrilled with their desks. “You feel happier, youre less tired, andyoure more active,” Georgia says. 　　Some of the desks have wheels and fidget bars. The bars let kidsmove in a way that doesnt disturb the class. Wheels allow the desks to bemoved easily. The desks also adjust to different heights. Kids take breaks bysitting on the floor or on stools. 　　There is the trend of designing things to make them easy and safe touse. According to Mark Benden, director of the Texas AM Center, standingworkers are more focused and healthier. He says his research shows that kidsusing standing desks are more engaged and burn more calories (卡路里). InDecember, researchers in New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdomreleased similar findings. But not everyone is convinced standing is betterthan sitting. Some parents and teachers worry that kids will get tired and thatstanding for long periods of time may be harmful. And standing desks are moreexpensive. 　　Benden says both sitting and standing desks can cause problems ifthey are not the proper height. “Our message should not be ‘Sit less, standmore,” he says, “but ‘Sit less, move more.” 　　11. How many classrooms in Vallecito areequipped with standing desks? 　　A. 3 B. 25 　　C. 19 D. 22 　　12. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about? 　　A. Why standing desks are used. 　　B. Where standing desks are used. 　　C. How standing desks are used. 　　D. Who use standing desks. 　　13. Mark Bendens research shows that kidsusing standing