山西省2017高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（43）_高考复习指南

山西省2017高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（43）

　　14．Which of the following statements in TRUE according to the passage?

　　A．Since the late 1990s, he has become an important figure in popular music.

　　B．Jackson made a number of physically complicated dance techniques popular.

　　C．The singer experienced health concerns in the early 1980s.

　　D．Only in America the sale of his works is over 750 million units.

　　15．What does the underlined word in the first paragraph mean?

　　A．Special. B．Interesting. C．Pleasant. D．Useful.

　　16．What has made him a part of popular culture for almost forty years?

　　A．An important figure in popular music.

　　B．Millions of dollars donated and raised for beneficial causes.

　　C．His other achievements such as Guinness World Records.

　　D．His highly publicized personal life and successful career.

　　I’m a skeptic（怀疑论者）when it comes to the benefits of taking vitamins and other supplements. We swallow far more than any other country---yet we’re not the healthiest folks by far, nor do we live the longest.

　　There’s more bad news for vitamins this week: Turns out that taking folic acid （叶酸）and vitamin B12 supplements doesn’t prevent heart attacks or death, according to a major new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was hoped they would, since the vitamins do reduce levels of homocysteine, an amino acid（氨基酸）that is higher in the blood of people who have a higher risk of heart disease. In fact, homocysteine was reduced 30 percent after one year of treatment in the participants who took both vitamins. But in the following three years, just as many vitamin takers died as those who didn’t take the vitamins. Even worse, the study was stopped early because another similar study suggested that there may be an increased risk of cancer from taking B vitamins.