2017届重庆市高考英语一轮复习阅读理解选编精练：111（含解析）_高考复习指南

2017届重庆市高考英语一轮复习阅读理解选编精练：111（含解析）

　　Obviously，everyone alive knows how to breathe.But Gordon and other experts in the field of mindbody medicine say that few people in industrialized societies know how to breathe correctly.They are taught to suck in their guts(内脏) and puff out(鼓起) their chests.At the same time，they are attacked with constant stress，which causes heart rate to increase.As a result，they become shallow “chest breathers”，using primarily the middle and upper parts of the lungs.Few people—other than musicians，singers and some athletes are even aware that the abdomen should expand when they breathe in.

　　“Watch a baby breathe，” says Gordon，“and you'll see the abdomen go up and down，deep and slow.” With age，most people change from this healthy abdominal breathing into shallow chest breathing.

　　At Duke University Medical Centre，Dr.Jon Seskevich has taught abdominal breathing to most of the 18，000 patients he's worked with since 1990.

　　One of his most dramatic cases involved a lung－cancer patient.“I walked into the room to find this large man actually fighting for breath，” Seskevich recalls.“I had him sit back in his chair and place his feet on the ground.I then asked if it was OK if I touched his abdomen.He nodded，so I put my hand on and told him to breathe softly into my hand，to let his abdomen rise into my hand.”

　　After about six minutes of this，he was breathing comfortably.“All day，people were telling him to relax，” says Seskevich，“and it seemed to make his struggle worse.I just told him to breathe into his abdomen.We didn't cure his cancer，but we may have saved him a trip to the intensive－care unit.”