Question

Babies are born yogis. Once we were all able to pull our toes up by our ears and laugh about it. Then we aged, got injured, and began carrying stress in our shoulders and back. In short, we lost our balance.

Yoga（瑜伽） is an ancient practice that helps create a sense of union in body, mind, and spirit. It brings us balance. I was seriously out of balance when I started practicing yoga in 1999. I had plantar facilities in both feet, and my doctor had warned me against all the things I loved to do: walking, hiking, and playing tennis. I was desperate for exercise. Yoga became my salvation and even enhanced my other fitness activities. I practice yoga at least twice a week, but I consider yoga to be part of my daily life because after a while you no longer just practice yoga—you love it.

Yoga becomes part of your physical life. Your body grows stronger, more toned, and more flexible as you move from one pose to the other. I spent a week in Mexico at a yoga retreat, and it was the first vacation on which I lost weight. “Rather than building muscle, yoga builds muscle tone,” says Shakta Kaur Khalsa, author of the K.I.S.S. Guide to Yoga. “Because yoga helps maintain a balanced metabolism (新陳代謝), it also helps to regulate weight. Additionally, yoga stretches muscles lengthwise, causing fat to be removed around the cells.” I do yoga poses throughout the day. After hours at my computer, I stretch my stiff shoulders and arms. When I need a boost of energy, I do energizing poses. When I am feeling exhausted at the end of the day, I do restorative poses.

Yoga becomes part of your mental life. Yoga teaches you to focus on breathing while you hold the poses. This attention to breath is calming; it dissolves stress and anxiety. I use yogic breathing on the tennis courts, in the dentist’s chair, and in traffic jams. You should always leave a yoga practice feeling energized, not tired. If you feel tired after yoga, it means you spent the time “fighting” yourself, trying to force yourself into poses. In yoga, you “surrender” to the pose by letting go of the tension.

Yoga becomes part of your spiritual life. Yoga is practiced by people from all religions; it is not restricted to any religious group. Yoga teaches “right” living in how we deal with ourselves and others. As I work on a difficult pose, I learn patience, forgiveness, and the value of gentleness. Yoga advocates proper eating, but you don’t have to be a vegetarian to practice yoga.

1.What would be the best title for this passage?

A．What’s Yoga?	B．How I Do Yoga Poses
C．The Benefits of Yoga	D．The Varieties of Yoga

2.According to the third paragraph, yoga can help people __________.

A．grow taller	B．lose weight
C．become flexible in thinking	D．make more friends

3.People feel tired after yoga because __________.

A．they consume energy in practicing yoga

B．they respond well to yoga poses

C．they spend too much time on yoga

D．they force themselves into yoga poses

4.If this passage continues, what will the writer most probably write about in the next paragraph?

A．Yoga as a means to keep fit.	B．Who may like yoga
C．Popularity of yoga all over the world.	D．Encouraging people to do yoga.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.B

3.D

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：這篇介紹了瑜伽的好處，從身體上，精神上，心理上對我們都是有好處的，作者運用了一些數據和例子向我們證明了這一點。

1.主旨題：文章前兩段是介紹瑜伽，后面三段的開頭句：Yoga becomes part of your physical life. ，Yoga becomes part of your mental life. 和Yoga becomes part of your spiritual life.是從三個方面說明瑜伽的好處。選C

2.細節題：從第三段的句子：I spent a week in Mexico at a yoga retreat, and it was the first vacation on which I lost weight.可知瑜伽可以減肥。選B

3.細節題：從第四段的句子：If you feel tired after yoga, it means you spent the time “fighting” yourself, trying to force yourself into poses. 說明如果做瑜伽覺得累，是因為強迫自己做動作。選D

4.推理題：前文講了瑜伽的好處，下面就是鼓勵人們做瑜伽了。選D

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點評：本文集中考查了細節題，在解答這類問題時要求學生抓住題干文字信息，采用針對性方法進行閱讀，因為這類題的答案在文章中可以直接找到。?