题文
Smaller than your fist, your healthy heart just goes on and on. It will beat more than 60 times a minute for 70 years or more. That’s something that most of us take for granted. But it’s an amazing fact.60 times a minute for 60 minutes is 3,600 times. What physical thing can most of us do 3,600 times in one hour? Blink? Maybe. Tap our fingers on the desk? No. Jump up and down? Certainly not! But our heart keeps beating, hour after hour. Every day, it pumps almost 2,000 gallons of blood through our blood vessels(血管). It takes you about five years to drink 2,000 gallons of water.
And, unlike your knees or your back, your heart does all this work without ever complaining（抱怨）! You never know that it’s even there. Your heart is such a reliable “silent partner” that people forget to care for it. For many, the first indication（迹象）that their heart isn’t working properly is a serious heart illness! Over 650,000 Americans die of some kind of heart disease every year. Cancer kills 560,000, stroke kills 143,000, and accidents kill 118,000 Americans annually.
Like accidental deaths, many heart disease-related deaths can be avoided if people simply follow the advice of the experts. Unfortunately, most people seem to listen to a little voice in their head that says, “It won’t happen to me. ” So these people keep on smoking and drinking. They continue to eat too much meat. And their only “exercise” is getting off the sofa to get something out of the fridge. Please follow the following steps to keep your heart healthy.
小题1:The text is most probably taken from a (an) __________. A．art bookB．science fiction C．healthy magazine D．psychology book小题2:Which of the following physical activities can keep going on and on?A．Blink.B．Jump.C．Finger tap.D．Heart beat.小题3:According to the numbers mentioned in paragraph 3, we can know __________. A．Accidents can be the biggest “killer” in America every year. B．In America, heart disease causes the highest death rate annually. C．Cancer causes more threat than any other diseases for Americans. D．Recently, nobody died of stroke or heart disease in America.小题4:What do we know about our healthy hearts?A．our healthy hearts work with many complains as our knees. B．our healthy hearts can pump 3,600 gallons of blood everyday. C．our healthy hearts are smaller than our fists. D．our healthy hearts can beat 60 times in one hour.小题5: What do you think the next paragraph is about?A．Some tips for keeping a healthy heart.B．Some suggestions for avoiding accidental deaths. C．Some reasons for doing regular exercise.D．Some exercise for keeping a healthy lifestyle. 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:C
小题5:A
解析
文章主要介绍了和我们的心脏有关的一些知识，强调了它在我们生活中发挥的不可忽视的作用，并呼吁我们尽早保护心脏，而不要到时候再后悔。
小题1:主旨大意题。文章主要介绍和心脏有关的知识，倡导健康的生活方式，可知是从健康杂志上出现的文章，所以选择C
小题2:细节题。根据文章第一段your healthy heart just goes on and on，可知心跳是可以一直不停的持续下去的，所以选择D
小题3:推断题。根据第三段列举的几个数字，可知心脏病造成的死亡是美国死亡人数中占最多的，所以选择B
小题4:细节题。根据第一段的Smaller than your fist, your healthy heart just goes on and on，可知心脏比拳头还需要小，所以选C
小题5:推断题。根据文章最后一句话Please follow the following steps to keep your heart healthy.，可知接下来要介绍有关心脏健康的贴士，所以选A
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“Smaller than your fi.....”主要考查你对 [健康环保类阅读 ]考点的理解。健康环保类阅读
健康环保累阅读概念：
健康环保类文章常是介绍科学知识、生活常识和环境保护方面的短文。体裁有记叙文、 说明文、议论文和各种应用文。
健康环保类文章阅读技巧：
健康环保类文章常是介绍科学知识、生活常识和环境保护方面的短文。阅读此类短文要以现象或事物为中心进行思考，理解现象产生的原因、条件和客观规律等。同时要抓住事物的特征、用途和相互关系等。科普环保类文章一般为说明文，从结构上看大致可分为三个部分：
第一部分一般是文章的首段，主要用来提出文章的主题，即文章想要阐述、说明的主要内容；
第二部分是文章的主体，可由若干个段落组成，对文章的主题进行展开说明；
第三部分是结尾段，对文章的主题进行归纳总结。这类文章多用一般现在时，而且一般多使用客观性词语表述。有时为了强调客观性，也常使用被动语态。
从近几年的考试题来看，科普环保类的文章越来越与人们的实际生活相接近。由于此类文章缺乏故事情节，很多同学对此类文章感到费解。但一般的科普类文章都是就事论事，需要逻辑推理和想象的时候较少，因此此类阅读题也没有同学们想象中的那么难，只要多加训练，就能较好地答题。
【阅读策略】
1、概要(Summarizing)：
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2、组织(Organization)：
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