READING PASSAGE 3
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on Reading Passage 3 below.
Do You Look Your Age?
It can be hard to guess someone's exact age. A range of factors may leave marks on our appearance', how much sleep we've had--even the way we dress and our view of ourselves. The good news is that just as these factors can add years on to your appearance, it follows that they can also take years off, We don't always have control over some of those social factors that can make us look younger, but there are other steps we can take to try to stop the ravages of age.
SOCIAL FACTORS
Last month the University of Southern Denmark published a report, The Influence of Environmental Factors on Facial Ageing, which showed that how we live can affect how old we look. In it, 1828 twins were photographed and then ten female nurses aged between 25-46 years were asked to guess how old the "models" were. The results were intriguing. They showed that belonging to a high social class can make us look up to four years younger and many other lifestyle. factors were shown to affect the way we look, Having children was found to make men look a full year younger, though it had no effect on women, and having four or more children cancelled out the benefit.
Depression and sun exposure were the biggest factors in making you look old before your time. Depression added up to three and a half years to a woman's perceived age (and 2.4 years for men). Sun exposure piled on at least an extra year. Smoking put on six months for a woman and a year for a man. Meanwhile, having a high BMI (body mass index) was found to take a whole year off for both men and women. "If you are not depressed, not a smoker and not too skinny, you are basically doing well," says Professor Kaare Christensen (married, three children, non-smoker), one of the report's authors. Professor Christensen's report concluded that it was more dangerous for our health to look a year older, than to actually be a year older.
NUTRITION
This is possibly the biggest change we can make fairly easily. There are four main factors that prematurely age us: smoking, too much alcohol, lack of fresh fruit and vegetables and insufficient protein intake. You can immediately tell a smoker. It's not just the lines around the mouth and eyes, but smoking is dehydrating to the body. Every time you inhale on a cigarette you're taking toxins into the body which have to be diffused and detoxified by the liver and kidneys and they're dependent on plenty of fresh water To carry toxins away. Most smokers don't drink anywhere near enough water,
The really big, quick-fix, though, is eating more fresh fruit and vegetables. You can see if someone doesn't eat enough, or any, fresh fruit and veg in a minute. The skin lacks a freshness and translucency. This is because the skin is the last organ to benefit from the nutrients you eat--the likes of the brain, heart and lungs all get first share. If someone's diet is lacking in fruit and veg, the skin will become dehydrated, This is a sign that sufficient nutrients aren't being delivered, so from an anti-ageing point of view, it's important to have live, fresh food and raw food is vital. If you have to cook, steaming will retain at least some of the vitamins and minerals.
The other really important thing and one we tend to miss out on in our diet-obsessed culture, is adequate intake of essential fatty acids, from oily fish, nuts and seeds, EFAs are vital for prolonging life expectancy because every cell in the body has a phospholipid bilayer that protects it, but they also give the skin a dewy, "bouncy", youthful feel. One of the worst things you can de in terms of looking old is to go on a low-fat diet. Stress is another big one for adding years. We can help support the adrenal and thyroid glands, which take a hammering when we're stressed, by eating plenty of
A. Having more than four children.
B. Having a high BMI.
C. Spending a long time in the sun.
关于盗窃罪的认定,下列结论哪些是正确的?A.甲因饮酒过量醉卧街头。乙向围观群众声称甲系其好友,将关于盗窃罪的认定,下列结论哪些是正确的?
A. 甲因饮酒过量醉卧街头。乙向围观群众声称甲系其好友,将甲扶于无人之处,掏走甲身上1000余元离去。乙的行为构成盗窃罪
B. 甲与乙在火车上相识,下车后同到一饭馆就餐。乙殷勤劝酒,将甲灌醉,掏走甲身上1000余元离去。乙的行为构成盗窃罪
C. 甲去一餐馆吃晚饭,时值该餐馆打烊,服务员已下班离去,只有老板乙在清账理财。在甲再三要求之下,乙无奈亲自下厨准备饭菜。甲趁机将厨房门反锁,致乙欲出不能,只能从递菜窗口眼看着甲打开柜台抽屉拿走1000余元离去。甲的行为构成盗窃罪
D. 甲在街头出售报纸时发现乙与一摊主因买东西发生纠纷,其携带的箱子(内有贵重物品)放在身旁的地上,便提起该箱子悄悄溜走。乙发现后紧追不舍。为摆脱乙的追赶,甲将手中剩余的几张报纸卷成一团扔向乙,击中乙脸,乙受惊吓几乎滑倒。随之又追,终于抓住甲。甲的行为构成盗窃罪