【正文】 t entirely agree on the answers. Calment lived to 122, so it wouldn39。t surprise me if someone alive today reaches 130 or 135, says Jerry Shay at the University of Texas. Steve Austad at the University of Texas agrees. People can live much longer than we think, he says. Experts used to say that humans couldn39。t live past 110. When Calment blew past that age, they raised the number to 120. So why can39。t we go higher? The trouble with guessing how old people can live to be is that it39。s all just guessing. Anyone can make up a number, says Rich Miller at the University of Michigan. Usually the scientist who picks the highest number gets his name in Time magazine. Won39。t new antiaging techniques keep us alive for centuries? Any cure, says Miller, for aging would probably keep most of us kicking until about 120. Researchers are working on treatments that lengthen the life span of mice by 50 percent at most. So, if the average human life span is about 80 years, says Miller, adding another 50 percent would get you to 120. So what can we conclude from this little disagreement among the researchers? That life span is flexible(有彈性的), but there is a limit, says George Martin of the University of Washington. We can get flies to live 50 percent longer, he says. But a fly39。s never going to live 150 years. Of course, if you became a new species (物種), one that ages at a slower speed, that would be a different story, he adds. Does Martin really believe that humans could evolve (進(jìn)化)their way to longer life? It39。s pretty cool to think about, he says with a smile.（1）What does the story of Jeanne Calment prove to us? can live to 122. people are creative. are sporty at 85. live longer than men.（2）According to Steve Austad at the University of Texas, ______. average human life span could be 110 cannot find ways to slow aging people can expect to live to over 150 are not sure how long people can live（3）Who would agree that a scientist will bee famous if he makes the wildest guess at longevity? Shay. Austad. Miller. Martin.（4）What can we infer from the last three paragraphs? of us could be good at sports even at 120. average human life span cannot be doubled. believe mice are aging at a slower speed than before. techniques could be used to change flies into a new species【答案】 （1）A（2）D（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，介紹了科學(xué)家對(duì)長(zhǎng)壽的不同觀點(diǎn)和對(duì)延長(zhǎng)人的壽命的不同理解。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“Jeanne Calment is the world39。s recordholder. She lived to the ripe old age of 122. ”說(shuō)明人們可以活到122歲，故選A。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。文章第四段中 的“People can live much longer than we think.”可知人類能活多長(zhǎng)仍是未知數(shù)，故選D。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第五段中的“Usually the scientist who picks the highest number gets his name in Time magazine.，可知Rich Miller認(rèn)為科學(xué)家們，只要瘋狂的想法找機(jī)會(huì)成名，因此選C。 （4）考查推理判斷。最后三段提到了在老鼠身上做的實(shí)驗(yàn)，證明生命是可以通過(guò)抗老技術(shù)延長(zhǎng)的，但同時(shí)又提到生命是有限度的?？茖W(xué)家通過(guò)試驗(yàn)證實(shí)人類平均壽命的跨度不能翻倍，故選B。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇健康類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。9．閱讀理解 It is hard, it hurts —and yet more than two million of us in the UK run at least once a week. Of course, some people run to lose weight, or to get fit, and these are great reasons. Running is also easy to do, it39。s cheap, and you can do it when you want. All these factors certainly contribute to the fact that running is one of the most popular sports in the UK. But for many of those two million runners, the real reason we head out to beat the roads until our legs hurt is more intangible (無(wú)形的) than weight loss or fitness. Many runners bee interested in times. They try to break the 40minute barrier for the 10K, or run under four hours for the marathon. Yet, really, these times are almost meaningless. And as soon as they are achieved, another target is thrown out almost immediately. The times are only the carrots we put in front of ourselves. But why do we put them there in the first place? Nobody ever gives a wise answer Deep down, we all know the answer. Running brings us joy. Watch small children when they are excited, at play, and mostly they can39。t stop running. There39。s a great moment in The Catcher in the Rye when Holden Caulfield, caught in the uneasy space between childhood and adulthood, is walking across his school grounds one evening and he suddenly starts to run. “I don39。t ever know what I was running for一I guess I just felt like it,” he says. This will to run is born. In fact, humans may well have evolved (進(jìn)化) the way we did because of our ability to run. As children, and even adolescents, we can respond to this natural call to run whenever the feeling takes us. As we run, we begin to sense that childish joy, which is born to live a wilder existence. As we run, the layers of responsibility and identity we have gathered in our lives, father, mother, lawyer, teacher, all fall away, leaving us with the raw human being. If we push on, running harder, deeper into the loneliness, further away from the world and the structure of our lives, we begin to feel strangely excited, separated yet at the same time connected, to ourselves. With nothing but our own two legs moving us, we begin to get a sense of who, or what, we really are. After a long run, everything seems right in the world. Everything is at peace. To experience this is a powerful feeling, strong enough to have us ing back, again and again, for more.（1）Why does the author think setting time goals is almost meaningless? those time goals can39。 t be achieved. those time goals can be achieved easily people will be very proud once the time goals are achieved. there will always be a new time goal once the former one is achieved.（2）The author mentions the reasons for running EXCEPT___________. ourselves away from responsibility weight and keeping fit us joy and peace in mind（3）Which of the following words can best describe the author39。s attitude towards running? ....（4）What does the underlined word this in the last paragraph probably mean? the 40 minute barrier for the 10K. under four hours for the Marathon. separated from the world after running everything is right after a long run.（5）What may be the best tile of this passage ? to Keep Fit to Break Records to Be the Real You