Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Question 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
It’s our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday activity,after work and sleep, in many parts of the world. Americans view five hours of TV each day, and while we know that spending so much time sitting ___36___ can lead to obesity(肥胖症) and other diseases, researchers have now quantified just how___37___being a couch potato can be.
In an analysis of data from eight large ___38___published studies, a Harvard-led group reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that for every two hours per day spent channel ___39___,the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes(糖尿病)rose 20% over 8.5 years, the risk of heart disease increased 15% over a ___40___, and the odds of dying permaturely___41___ 13% during a seven-year follow-up of these___42____are linked to a lack of physical exercise. But compared with other sedentary(久坐的)activities, like knitting ,viewing TV may be especially__43___at promoting unhealthy habits. For one, the sheer number of hours we pass watching TV dwarfs the time we spend on anything else. And other studies have found that watching ads for beer and popcorn may make you more likely to ___44___them.
Even so, the authors admit that they didn’t compare different sedentary activities to ___45___whether TV watching was linked to a greater risk of diabetes,heart disease or clearly death compared with, say, reading.
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。
A)climbed I)previously
B)conseme J)resume
C)decade K)suffered
D)determine L)suffering
E)effectIve M)term
F)harmfulN)terminals
G)outcomes O)twisting
H)passively
參考答案：
選詞填空
36. passively
解析：sitting passively 被動坐著
從詞性判斷，36題應該選一個副詞來修飾sitting這個動名詞，而備選項中只有兩個副詞，一個是passively被動地，一個是previously之前，再根據語義邏輯，坐著那看電視的行為應該是一種被動行為，而不存在前後之分。
37. harmful
解析：quantified just how harmful being a couch potato 量化長時間看電視的嚴重危害
通過分析how ( ) being a couch potato can be 這句話的句子成分，得出how 這個副詞之後應該接一個形容詞，符合詞性條件的備選項，一個是effective 有效的`，一個是harmful有害的。根據語義邏輯，長時間看電視是有害的，故選harmful。
38. previously
解析： previously published studies 之前公佈的研究
38題空格處應該填一個副詞來修飾published這個詞，參考36題的解析，備選項中現在只剩下一個副詞就是previously，剛好填入此處。
39. surfing
解析：spent channel surfing ，直接翻譯為在頻道衝浪，意譯為看電視。這裡的channel頻道指代television電視;而“surfing衝浪”指代“watching看”，我們經常看到上網常用surfing一詞，這裡運用了仿詞，將“上網衝浪”的surfing借過來用來指“看電視“。以上可以理解為英語中的委婉表達。
40. decade
解析：increased 15% over a decade 10年增加了15% 。40題後面出現了一個詞並列連詞and，說明本句存在並列關係。通讀此句，40題在over之後應該填一個表示時間的名詞，這樣才能和前文over s 與後文during a seven-year follow up 形成並列，備選項中只有decade符合條件。
41. climbed
解析：the odds …climbed 13% 機率增加了13% 。解析同40題，根據and所指向的並列關係，前文說某一種風險增加了20%，某一種風險的增加了15%，此處空格也應該填一個表示上升的動詞，備選項只有climbed，爬升。
42. outcomes
解析：all of these outcomes 所有這些後果。 此題填outcomes，是對前文各種疾病風險的概括。
43. effective
解析：be especially effective at promoting unhealthy habits 更容易形成不健康的習慣。be effective at doing 有效做某事。這裡是諷刺用法，用來強調看電視更容易形成不健康的習慣。
44. consume
解析：make you more likely to consume them 使你更有可能吃他們，這裡注意them指前文出現的beer啤酒和popcorn爆米花，又能表示喝啤酒，又能表示吃爆米花的詞只有consume。consume消費，也只吃喝(東西)。
45. determine
解析：通過句法分析，本句應該填寫動詞原形，放在to 不定式符號之後。備選項中有3個動詞原形，其中consume已經填在了44題，在剩下的resume恢復和determine決定之間，根據語義，應選擇determine。
