Question

健康問題一直是生活中的熱點話題。尤其對于女性來說，你知道穿矮高跟鞋和純粹的高跟鞋對你身體健康的影響嗎？

Healthy knees aren't the main consideration in choosing high heels, but new research says chunky heels are just __________as spindly stilettos（細高跟鞋）.

"It takes a long time to feel the effects of knee osteoarthritis（骨關節炎）— and once you do, it is too late," said Dr. Casey Kerrigan, leading researcher of the study and associate professor at Harvard Medical School's department of physical medicine.

"I compare it to smoking — one cigarette is not painful, but over a lifetime it is. Wide-heeled shoes feel comfortable, so women wear them all day long, "Kerrigan said.”They are better for your feet than stiletto heels, but just as had for your knees.”

The idea that high heels are bad for your health isn't new — scientists have warned women for years that they contribute to problems ranging from corns to hammer toes, tendonitis, knee pain, sprained（扭傷）ankles and back problems.

But in 1998, Kerdgan and a team of Harvard researchers were the first to link high heels and knee osteoarthritis, a painful joint disease that destroys cartilage（軟骨）surrounding the knee.

The first study looked only at stiletto heels, and Kerrigan said she wanted to study the chunky high-heeled shoes she noticed many women wearing.

"This study confirms what we all intuitively（直覺地）know that high-heeled shoes of any kind are not good for our health," said Dr. Glenn Pfeifer, a San Francisco doctor and member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons who was not connected to the study.

1. What’s the main idea of the passage?

                                                                           

2. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

In my opinion, it is similar to smoking, for smoking one cigarette does little harm but if you smoke all your life, it’ll be very painful.

                                                                          

3. Please fill in the blank in the passage with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.（within ten words）

                                                                          

4. What do you think of wearing the chunky heels according to the passage? （within 30 words）

                                                                           

5. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.

Answer 1

1. Chunky heels are nothing better than spindly stilettos

2. "I compare it to smoking — one cigarette is not painful, but over a lifetime it is.

3. as bad for the knees

4. I believe the result of the new study that chunky heels are as bad for the knees as spindly stilettos because it also causes many health problems . .

5. 由于第一次所進行的調查其研究對象是純粹的高跟鞋，克瑞安教授說她將對她所關注的女士穿的矮高跟鞋進行詳細的調查。

解析:

1. Chunky heels are nothing better than spindly stilettos

2. "I compare it to smoking — one cigarette is not painful, but over a lifetime it is.

3. as bad for the knees

4. I believe the result of the new study that chunky heels are as bad for the knees as spindly stilettos because it also causes many health problems . .

5. 由于第一次所進行的調查其研究對象是純粹的高跟鞋，克瑞安教授說她將對她所關注的女士穿的矮高跟鞋進行詳細的調查。