2022年北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试真题.pdf

北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试 .05.11 Part I Reading Comprehension (30%) Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Passage 1 Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage: Is that 6 a.m. workout getting in the way of good sleep? Don ’t think your fat cells won't notice. A new study published in The Annals of Internal Medicine (a medical journal) finds that inadequate shut-eye has a harmful effect on fat calls, reducing their ability to respond to insulin (胰岛素) by about 30 percent. Over the long-term, this decreased response could set-the stage for type-2 diabetes (a medical condition in which someone has too much sugar in his or her blood), fatty liver disease and weight gain. The study adds to a growing body of evidence that there ’s “an intimate relationship between the amount of sleep we get and our ability to maintain a good,healthy body weight ”says sleep expert Helene Emsellem,director of the Center for Sleep and Wake Disorders in Chevy Chase,Maryland. (76) But Americans don’t seem to be getting the message that we need seven to nine hours per night. More than 1 in 5 of us,according to a report form the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,is getting six or fewer hours of sleep per night,on average. So how did researchers study fat cellsin the Annals paper? Matthew Brady of the University of Chicago an