Question

Housework not good exercise, says study

1. It even said that people who did the most housework were usually the most overweight. 2. The contribution of domestic physical activity to meeting current recommendations for health. It questions whether activities like do-it-yourself, gardening and housework are good exercise. 3. but there is a danger that people incorrectly think housework is proper exercise.

A total of 4,563 adults took a survey about their weekly physical activity. 4. Researcher Professor Murphy said any physical activity should increase the amount of calories burnt. 5. She said housework was “inversely related to leanness”. She said this suggested that either people overestimate how hard housework was an exercise, or they eat too much because they think they have lost lots of calories doing household chores.

However, her study found the opposite.

People who do housework usually eat more.

A new study says housework is not the quality exercise many people think it is.

The research showed that people who included housework as exercise tended to be heavier.

The study is called Does “doing housework keep you healthy” ?

They think doing exercise is of great benefit to healthy.

It says any activity is better than none.

Answer 1

1.C

2.E

3.G

4.D

5.A

【解析】

1.小題1】根據(jù)標(biāo)題：研究顯示做家務(wù)勞動不是好的鍛煉途徑。得知首段點(diǎn)明主題：一項(xiàng)新的研究稱家務(wù)勞動不像很多人想象的是高品質(zhì)鍛煉方式，據(jù)說做家務(wù)多的人會是超重人群。選C。

2.小題2】根據(jù)下文對研究的描述：它質(zhì)疑動手活動、園藝、家務(wù)是否是好的鍛煉得知，首先介紹研究的名稱----是做家務(wù)真的能使你健康嗎？選E。

3.小題3】根據(jù)下一句轉(zhuǎn)折說存在一個(gè)危險(xiǎn)：人們錯(cuò)誤認(rèn)為通過做家務(wù)可以鍛煉身體，得知上句說雖然有任何活動總比沒有要好。選G。

4.小題4】根據(jù)上一句有4563人參與調(diào)查，得知調(diào)查顯示通過做家務(wù)鍛煉的人體重更重。選D。

5.小題5】Murphy 教授說任何活動應(yīng)該增加燃燒體內(nèi)熱量，下一句表示轉(zhuǎn)折，然而她的調(diào)查卻得到相反結(jié)果，她說家務(wù)是與瘦相反的。選A。

考點(diǎn)：調(diào)查研究類文章