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【題目】Anger and other strong emotions (情感) can probably cause deadly heart beats in certain weak people，the US researchers said on Monday.

Earlier studies have shown that earthquake，war or even the loss of a World Cup Soccer game can increase chances of death from sudden cardiac arrest，in which the heart stops passing blood.

“It’s certainly been shown in all different ways that when you put people under pressure，sudden death will increase，” said Dr.Rachel Lampert of Yale University in New Haven，Connecticut.

“Our study starts to look at how this really has an effect on the electrical system of the heart，” Lampert said.

She and her assistants studied 62 patients with heart disease and ICDs that can discover dangerous heart beats and send an electrical shock to bring a normal heart beat back.

Patients in the study took part in an exercise in which they told a recent angry period while Lampert’s team did a test called TWave Alternant that measures electrical instability(不穩(wěn)定性) in the heart.

Lampert said the team on purpose asked questions to get people to experience the angry period again.“We found in the lab that yes，anger did increase this electrical instability in these patients，” she said.

Next，they followed patients for three years to see which patients later had a cardiac arrest and needed a shock from their ICDs.“The people who had the highest anger were 10 times more likely than everyone else to have cardiac arrest，” she said.

Lampert said the study suggests that anger can be deadly，at least for people who are already weak /span>to this type of electrical disorder in the heart.

【1】From the passage we know cardiac arrest refers to ________.

A．someone who will be caught if he does something wrong

B．some place where you can show all your feelings

C．some disease that can kill people instantly

D．something used by patients in hospital

【2】The underlined word “this” in Paragraph 4 refers to “________”．

A．feelings of anger and pressure

B．games

C．feelings of happiness

D．hunger

【3】What did Lampert use to measure electrical instability of patients’ heart?

A．ICD and TWave Alternant test.

B．ICD and Cardic arrest.

C．Cardiac arrest.

D．The passage doesn’t tell us.

【4】The passage is mainly about ________.

A．new findings for heart disease

B．that anger really can kill a person

C．a(chǎn) new test of measuring heart blood

D．a(chǎn) study showing danger of heart beats

Answer 1

【答案】【1】 C

【2】 A

【3】 A

【4】 B

【解析】【1】推理判斷題。文章第二段說到此前的研究表明，地震、戰(zhàn)爭甚至輸?shù)粢粓鍪澜绫�足球賽都會增加cardiac arrest引起死亡的幾率，并用非限制性定語從句解釋，cardiac arrest是一種由心臟突然停止供血而引發(fā)的死亡，醫(yī)學(xué)名為心源性猝死。

【2】推理判斷題。上文主要講述的是憤怒、壓力等情緒會導(dǎo)致人猝死，因此，這段中作者要討論的是這些情緒是如何導(dǎo)致人死亡的。所以這里的this指的應(yīng)該是“憤怒”和“壓力”。

【3】推理判斷題。在第五段提到對62名心臟病患者進(jìn)行了研究，這些患者都攜有可以探測到危險(xiǎn)性心律或心律失常，并能釋放電刺激使心律恢復(fù)正常的植入式心臟除顫(ICD)。這是試驗(yàn)的輔助工具。在第六段提到研究小組讓病人進(jìn)行一項(xiàng)練習(xí)，即講述最近發(fā)生的一件令他們生氣的事情，同時(shí)通過一種名叫“T波交替”的試驗(yàn)來測量病人心電的不穩(wěn)定度，這是一種方法。

【4】主旨大意題。美國研究人員稱，對某些“脆弱”的人來說，憤怒可能會觸發(fā)致命的心律失常。