問題詳情

IL Reading Comprehension: Choose the best answer for each question (20分）Passage
(A)Childhood was an illusion and the illusion was this: everything was bigger. No. I mean everything, not just houses and shops and grown-ups, but colors and flowers and journeys, especially journeys which seemed endless. “Are we there yet, Daddy?”Funfairs were huge things that spread for miles around you with noise and lights and exciting danger. Rainy days at home when you were ill seemed to last for ever. Being an adult yourself was an unthinkable distant possibility. Every sound was louder; every game was grander; every pain unbearable.As I’ve grown old, life has become smaller. Flavors have dulled.Surprises have turned into shocks. Days go by unsavored. How can I recapture childhood when it was an illusion?I have only one repeatable and precious way and even in this way I can regain only the echoes of that larger world. I can play upon the stage like a child and make the crowd laugh and laugh with them, sometimes helplessly like a child, and then, even though I，m a sixty-one-year-old, I can almost catch the colors and sounds and silliness of those bigger years when I was little.Passage
(B)For some time now, medical scientists have noted an alarming increase in diseases of the heart and circulation among people who smoke cigarettes. It has been found that the presence of nicotine in the bloodstream causes blood vessels____36_，thus slowing circulation，a condition which eventually leads tohardening of the arteries. As the arteries_37_less blood reaches thebrain, and the end result of this_38_is a cerebral hemorrhage，commonlyreferred to as a stroke. In addition, nicotine in the bloodstream reduces theability of the hemoglobin to release oxygen, resulting in 39_of breath,thus causing the person to breathe more rapidly. This forces the heart to beatfaster — that is，the pulse rate increases — and in turn_40_the risk of aheart attack.
36.
(A) contract
(B) relax
(C) swell
(D) block

參考答案

答案：A
難度：困難0.3125
統計：A(5),B(2),C(7),D(1),E(0)

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