Question

【題目】The following simple exercise routine works as well as prescription medication(處方藥) without side effects.

A jog a day could keep your headaches at bay; regular cardio workouts(有氧鍛煉) may prevent migraines(偏頭痛), a growing body of research suggests.

Migraine patients had fewer headaches after doing 40-minute cycling workouts three times a week for three months, according to a Swedish study.

The exercise routine worked just as well as one of the top migraine-preventing drugs—topamirate, but without side effects of depression and tremors(顫抖).

“Cardio workouts can help with regular headaches, too,” says Alexander Mauskop, M.D., director of the New York Headache Center in Manhattan.

There are a couple of theories on how it works.

“Breaking a sweat may relieve stress,” says Dr. Mauskop. Headaches are often triggered by stress, and if you remove the trigger, you release the pain.

The feel-good chemicals produced when you exercise actually block your pain sensors, acting as a natural painkiller.

Since headaches can be caused by many different factors like genetics, lack of sleep, or certain foods, the cardio workout won’t be the solution for everyone, Dr. Mauskop says. But one German study found that it helped 65 percent of patients, which makes it as effective as the best medicines on the market.

Dr. Mauskop recommends his patients do a half-hour reasonable intensity(強度) cardio workout, like jogging, biking, or swimming three times a week. These workouts are meant to be slow and steady, as opposed to high-intensity intervals that alternate between all-out runs and rest.

Pushing yourself too much or increasing the intensity too quickly can trigger headaches in some people, so make sure your heart rate doesn’t jump above 150 BPM. If you don’t have a heart rate monitor, then breathe only through your nose. You’ll know you’re going too hard if you can’t keep up that breathing pattern.

Your migraines could start disappearing in a couple of weeks, Dr. Mauskop says.

【1】According to the passage, the author may agree that _______.

A. jogging, swimming and fishing are cardio workouts.

B. neither cardio workouts nor topamirate has side effects

C. migraine patients may be cured by regular cardio workouts

D. cardio workouts will be the solution for everyone with migraines

【2】The underlined word “triggered” in Paragraph 7 can be replaced by _______.

A. cured B. released

C. caused D. monitored

【3】What would be the best title?

A. A cure for headaches B. Side effects of migraines

C. The causes of headaches D. Advantages of cardio workouts.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】C

【3】A

【解析】

這是一篇說明文。文章介紹了一種新的治療偏頭疼的方法——定期的有氧運動。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。答案定位在第二段A jog a day could keep your headaches at bay; regular cardio workouts(有氧鍛煉) may prevent migraines(偏頭痛), a growing body of research suggests.可知偏頭疼的病人有可能被定期的有氧運動治愈，故選C。

【2】詞義猜測題。答案定位在第七段Headaches are often triggered by stress, and if you remove the trigger, you release the pain.這句話的意思是頭疼經(jīng)常是由壓力造成的，如果你去除壓力，你就會緩解疼痛，所以“triggered”的意思是“引起”，A. cured治愈；B. released釋放；C. caused引起；D. monitored監(jiān)控，故選C。

【3】主旨大意題。文章介紹了一種新的治療偏頭疼的方法——定期的有氧運動，所以這篇文章最好的題目是一種治療頭疼的方法，故選A。