Research Shows Walking Can Lift Depression
New research by German scientists shows that author Charles Dickens was onto a good thing1 when he took long,brisk walks to relieve periodic bouts of depression. The author of Oliver Twist and David Coppeifield would walk for hours in the 1860s as an antidote to2 intense feelings of sadness which alternated with3 restless euphoria._____1_____
Aerobic exercise like rapid walking can be more effective at lifting depression than drugs,reported the scientists led by Dr. Fernando Dimeo._____2_____The team found that in 10 of these patients drugs had failed to bring any substantial improvement. The team devised an exercise regime for the group that involved walking on a treadmill for 30 minutes every day.______3____The intensity of the training programme was stepped up4 as the heart rate adapted. A measurement of depression severity was taken at the start and the end of the programme,and patients were asked to rate their own mood regularly over a 10-day period. The researchers in Berlin found that after 10 days of the course six patients felt "substantially less depressed"。_____4_____Two were slightly less depressed,while four others remained unchanged. Depression levels overall fell by a third5 and on the self-assessed scores by 25 per cent,said the researchers whose findings appeared in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
The study was small but the extent of the improvement was said by scientists to be impressive.______5____ Nineteenth century doctors would have called Dickens‘s condition melancholia since the psychological condition of depression was unknown. Dickens biographer Peter Ackroyd says the author’s son Charles remembers his father‘s "heavy moods of deep depression" and many times of "intense nervous irritability",something modern psychologists would certainly recognize6.
練習(xí)：
A. The number included five who had not found any relief using drug treatment.
B. Long and brisk walks are not necessarily beneficial to every person.
C. They studied 12 people with severe depression that had lasted an average of nine months.
D. The outcome indicated a clinical benefit which could not be obtained with pharmacological treatment currently available,they said.
E. This is also the advice that experts from the Free University in Berlin are giving today.
F. According to the regime,intense activity lasting three minutes was alternated with walking at half speed for three minutes.
答案與題解：
1.E 第一段說到了狄更斯找到了一種方法,即通過散步幾小時(shí)來緩解悲傷與亢奮交替的緊張情緒。文章的第一段通常都是點(diǎn)明主題,而E項(xiàng)正是文章題目所要具體闡述的內(nèi)容,故是選項(xiàng)。
2.C 第二段第一句說,科學(xué)家們報(bào)告,像快走這樣的有氧運(yùn)動(dòng)在消除抑郁情緒方面比藥物更有效。顯然下面需要具體說明這個(gè)結(jié)論的證據(jù)。C的They studied理所當(dāng)然地應(yīng)該指這些科學(xué)家。空白處的后一句The team還是指這些人。故用C來連接上下文是最恰當(dāng)?shù)摹?BR> 3.F 空白處的前一句說,這些科學(xué)家為病人制訂了一個(gè)鍛煉計(jì)劃,選項(xiàng)F一開始就說"根據(jù)這個(gè)計(jì)劃",可見后句與前句之間具有銜接關(guān)系,故它是選項(xiàng)。
4.A 空白處的前一句說有六位病人感到抑郁程度明顯減輕；空白處的后一句說有兩位稍微減輕,四位無變化。A說此人數(shù)包括五位以前使用藥物而病情沒有任何緩解的病人,故將它放在此處是最恰當(dāng)。
5.D 空白處的前一句說這次研究（的范圍）雖小,但（病人病情）改善的程度卻給人很深的印象,此段實(shí)際上是對(duì)研究作總結(jié)。D也是一句總結(jié)性的話："研究結(jié)果表明,它對(duì)臨床是有益處的,而這卻是現(xiàn)有的藥物治療所達(dá)不到的",故把它放在此處也是最恰當(dāng)?shù)摹?
New research by German scientists shows that author Charles Dickens was onto a good thing1 when he took long,brisk walks to relieve periodic bouts of depression. The author of Oliver Twist and David Coppeifield would walk for hours in the 1860s as an antidote to2 intense feelings of sadness which alternated with3 restless euphoria._____1_____
Aerobic exercise like rapid walking can be more effective at lifting depression than drugs,reported the scientists led by Dr. Fernando Dimeo._____2_____The team found that in 10 of these patients drugs had failed to bring any substantial improvement. The team devised an exercise regime for the group that involved walking on a treadmill for 30 minutes every day.______3____The intensity of the training programme was stepped up4 as the heart rate adapted. A measurement of depression severity was taken at the start and the end of the programme,and patients were asked to rate their own mood regularly over a 10-day period. The researchers in Berlin found that after 10 days of the course six patients felt "substantially less depressed"。_____4_____Two were slightly less depressed,while four others remained unchanged. Depression levels overall fell by a third5 and on the self-assessed scores by 25 per cent,said the researchers whose findings appeared in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
The study was small but the extent of the improvement was said by scientists to be impressive.______5____ Nineteenth century doctors would have called Dickens‘s condition melancholia since the psychological condition of depression was unknown. Dickens biographer Peter Ackroyd says the author’s son Charles remembers his father‘s "heavy moods of deep depression" and many times of "intense nervous irritability",something modern psychologists would certainly recognize6.
練習(xí)：
A. The number included five who had not found any relief using drug treatment.
B. Long and brisk walks are not necessarily beneficial to every person.
C. They studied 12 people with severe depression that had lasted an average of nine months.
D. The outcome indicated a clinical benefit which could not be obtained with pharmacological treatment currently available,they said.
E. This is also the advice that experts from the Free University in Berlin are giving today.
F. According to the regime,intense activity lasting three minutes was alternated with walking at half speed for three minutes.
答案與題解：
1.E 第一段說到了狄更斯找到了一種方法,即通過散步幾小時(shí)來緩解悲傷與亢奮交替的緊張情緒。文章的第一段通常都是點(diǎn)明主題,而E項(xiàng)正是文章題目所要具體闡述的內(nèi)容,故是選項(xiàng)。
2.C 第二段第一句說,科學(xué)家們報(bào)告,像快走這樣的有氧運(yùn)動(dòng)在消除抑郁情緒方面比藥物更有效。顯然下面需要具體說明這個(gè)結(jié)論的證據(jù)。C的They studied理所當(dāng)然地應(yīng)該指這些科學(xué)家。空白處的后一句The team還是指這些人。故用C來連接上下文是最恰當(dāng)?shù)摹?BR> 3.F 空白處的前一句說,這些科學(xué)家為病人制訂了一個(gè)鍛煉計(jì)劃,選項(xiàng)F一開始就說"根據(jù)這個(gè)計(jì)劃",可見后句與前句之間具有銜接關(guān)系,故它是選項(xiàng)。
4.A 空白處的前一句說有六位病人感到抑郁程度明顯減輕；空白處的后一句說有兩位稍微減輕,四位無變化。A說此人數(shù)包括五位以前使用藥物而病情沒有任何緩解的病人,故將它放在此處是最恰當(dāng)。
5.D 空白處的前一句說這次研究（的范圍）雖小,但（病人病情）改善的程度卻給人很深的印象,此段實(shí)際上是對(duì)研究作總結(jié)。D也是一句總結(jié)性的話："研究結(jié)果表明,它對(duì)臨床是有益處的,而這卻是現(xiàn)有的藥物治療所達(dá)不到的",故把它放在此處也是最恰當(dāng)?shù)摹?