Men and women have different tastes in food, with men favoring meat and poultry (家禽), and women fruits and vegetables, researchers said in what was said to be the most extensive (廣泛的) study so far of gender (性別) differences in eating habits.
More than 14,000 adult men and women, were surveyed from May 2006 to April 2007, for the Foodbome Disease Active Surveillance (監(jiān)督) Network (FoodNet), to determine their eating habits, including high risk foods such as undercooked meat and eggs.
“To our knowledge, there have been studies in the literature on gender differences in eating habits, but nothing this extensive," the epidemiologist (流行病學家) told the 2008 International Conference on Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, Georgia.
Researchers found that men were more likely to eat meat and poultry, especially duck, veal, and ham, and certain shellfish such as shrimp and oysters.
Women instead were more likely to eat vegetables, especially carrots and tomatoes, and fruits, especially strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and apples. Women also preferred dry foods, such as almonds and walnuts, and were more likely to consume eggs and yogurt when compared with men.
There were also some exceptions to the eating trends of each gender: men were significantly more likely to eat asparagus (蘆筍) and brussels sprouts (洋白菜) than women, while women were more likely to consume fresh hamburgers as opposed to the frozen kind, which the men preferred.
And regarding high risk foods, the researchers found that significantly more men consumed undercooked meat and eggs than women, while more women were more likely to eat alfalfa sprouts.
Men’s preference for meat explains why men have more cases than women when it comes to high cholesterol (膽固醇), the study said.
60. The conclusion of the one-year study shows that _____.
A. men and women differ in eating habits
B. men prefer meat while women vegetables
C. there is high risk in eating undercooked food
D. eating habits are changeable
61. According to the passage, men tend to eat the following foods EXCEPT _____.
A. ham B. yogurt C. shrimp D. poultry
62. It is implied in the last paragraph that _____.
A. women are healthier than men
B. men like meat better than women do
C. men are more likely to be ill as a result of eating meat
D. men have more problems because of their eating undercooked meat and eggs
63. The underlined word “veal” is probably a kind of _____.
A. grain B. shellfish C. meat D. fruit
科目:高中英語 來源:2013屆廣西桂林市、崇左市、防城港市高考第一次聯(lián)合模擬考試英語試卷(帶解析) 題型:閱讀理解
Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.
The largest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts hardly lose their pumping power with age.
“We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20-25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age.” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. “Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70. one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. “This is part of the ageing process.”
What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.
“This gender(性別)difference might just explain why women live longer than men,” said Goldspink.
They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on heahhy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease.
The team has yet to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart, said Goldspink.
The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.
【小題1】The underlined word “l(fā)ongevity” in the second paragraph probably refers to _____.
A.health | B.long life | C.a(chǎn)geing | D.effect |
A.men’s heart cells | B.women’s ageing process |
C.the gender difference | D.hearts and long life |
A.women have more cells than men when they are born |
B.women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beat |
C.the female heart loses few of the cells with age |
D.women never lose their pumping power with age |
A.scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cells |
B.the reason why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found out |
C.the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater loss |
D.wome over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 20 |
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科目:高中英語 來源:2012-2013學年廣西桂林市、崇左市、防城港市高考第一次聯(lián)合模擬考試英語試卷(解析版) 題型:閱讀理解
Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.
The largest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts hardly lose their pumping power with age.
“We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20-25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age.” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. “Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70. one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. “This is part of the ageing process.”
What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.
“This gender(性別)difference might just explain why women live longer than men,” said Goldspink.
They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on heahhy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease.
The team has yet to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart, said Goldspink.
The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.
1.The underlined word “l(fā)ongevity” in the second paragraph probably refers to _____.
A.health B.long life C.a(chǎn)geing D.effect
2.The text mainly talks about ______.
A.men’s heart cells B.women’s ageing process
C.the gender difference D.hearts and long life
3.According to the text, the UK scientists have known that _____.
A.women have more cells than men when they are born
B.women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beat
C.the female heart loses few of the cells with age
D.women never lose their pumping power with age
4. We can know from the passage that ______.
A.scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cells
B.the reason why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found out
C.the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater loss
D.wome over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 20
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