2014 高考英语阅读理解基础二轮训练题（15）及答案 <br />阅读理解-------A <br />&ldquo;America’s No.1 Health Problem.&rdquo; So reads the headline of an article <br />published by the American Institute of Stress that claims the biggest threat to <br />health today is neither cancer nor AIDS. The report says: &ldquo;It has been estimated（估 <br />计）that 75 to 90 percent of all visits to primary care physicians are for stress <br />related problems.&rdquo; <br />It is no exaggeration（夸张）to say that people today are being attacked by <br />stress. According to the National Consumers League, &ldquo;Work is the top source of <br />stress for adults who have problems and stress in their lives (39%), followed by <br />family (30%). Other sources include health (10%), concern about the economy (9%) <br />and concern about international conflict and terrorism (4%).&rdquo; <br />However, stress is hardly unique to the United States. A British survey in 2005 <br />estimated that &ldquo;over half a million individuals in Britain believed in 2004 that <br />they were experiencing work-related stress at a level that was making them ill.&rdquo; <br />As a result of &ldquo;work-related stres s, depression or anxiety,&rdquo; there are &ldquo;an <br />estimated thirteen and a half million reported lost working days per year in <br />Britain.&rdquo; <br />The picture is no less bleak in mainland Europe. According to the European Agency <br />for Safety and Health at Work, &ldquo;work-related stress has been shown to affect <br />millions of European workers across all types of employment sectors.&rdquo; One survey <br />revealed that there are &ldquo;about 41 million workers affected by work-related stress <br />each year.&rdquo; <br />What about Asia? A report issued by a conference held in Tokyo concluded: &ldquo;Job <br />stress is a common concern among many countries in the world, both developing and <br />industrialized countries.&rdquo; The report observed that &ldquo;several countries in East <br />Asia, including China and Korea, have rapidly industrialized and economically grown. <br />These countries now have a lot of concerns on job stress and its harmful effects <br />on workers’ health.&rdquo; <br />1. The author quoted &ldquo;America’s No.1 Health Problem.&rdquo; (Para. 1) in order to <br />______. <br />A. talk about health problems in America <br />B. introduce the topic of stress <br />C. emphasize the stress in America <br />D. tell readers something about American Institute of Stress <br />答案解析：答案为 B。本题为推理题。本文的内容是为了揭示世界上人们的工作压力非常大， <br />对健康造成了威胁，因此作者在开头使用&ldquo;America’s No.1 Health Problem&rdquo;是为了引入 <br />压力的话题，故答案为 B。[来源:] <br />2. From the passage we can learn that . <br />A. both cancer and AIDS are not as serious as the threat of stress to health[来 <br />源:] <br />B. stress is mainly f rom working and living pressure <br />C. Americans never care about international conflict and terrorism <br />D. people in mainland Europe are more optimistic than English people <br />答案解析：答案为 B。本题为细节推理题。由第二段 &ldquo;Work is the top source of st...