【摘要】为应对成考考试，考生应打好坚实的基础，并且做些相应试题作为考前辅导，以下真题希望能帮到考生。
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【连题】 根据以下材料回答第1~5题：
Passage ThreeIf you want to stay young , sit down and have a good think. This is the research result of Professor Faulkner , who says that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise and as a result, we are ageing unnecessarily soon.
Professor Faulkner wanted to find out why healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and to reason at a relatively age , and how the process of ageing could be slowed down.
He set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and occupations.
Computer technology enabled him to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain , which relate to intelligence and emotion, and determine the human character.
Contraction of front and side parts—as cells die off –was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixty-and seventy –year-olds.
Faulkner concluded from his tests that there is a simple way to slow the contraction-using the head.
The findings show that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. Those least at risk, says Faulkner, are lawyers , followed by university professors and doctors. White-collar workers doing routine work are, however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant.
Faulkner’s findings show that thinking can prevent the brain from shrinking. Blood must circulate properly in the head to supply the fresh oxygen the brain cells need. “The best way to maintain good blood circulation is through using the brain , ” he says,” Think hard and engage in conversation. Don’t rely on pocket calculators.”
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Professor Faulkner wanted to find out_________ .
A．how people’s brains shrink
B．the way of making people live longer
C．the size of certain people’s brains
D．why certain people aged sooner than others
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Faulkner’s research findings are based on_________.
A．a survey of farmers in northern Japan
B．tests performed on a thousand old people
C．the study of brain volumes of different people
D．the latest development of computer technology
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The professor’s tests show that _________.
A．our brains shrink as we grow old
B．the front section of the brain does not shrink
C．seventy-year-olds have better brains than sixty-year-olds
D．brain contraction may vary among people of the same age
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The underlined word “subjects” in paragraph 5 means _________.
A．branches of knowledge studied in a school
B．something to be considered
C．persons experimented on
D．citizens in a country
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According to the passage, which group of people seem to age slower than the others?
A．Farmers.
B．Lawyers.
C．Clerks
D．Shop assistants