How to Stay Young If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japan

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问题                                                   How to Stay Young
    If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise—and as a result, we are aging unnecessarily soon.
    Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of aging could be slowed down.
    With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes (容量) of a thousand people of different ages and varying occupations.
    Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intellect (智能) and emotion, and determine the human character. (The rear section of the brain, which controls functions like eating and breathing, does not contract with age, and one can continue living without intellectual or emotional faculties.)
    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.
    Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple remedy to the contraction normally associated with age—using the head.
    The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. Those least at risk, says     Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant.
    Matsuzawa’ 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. "
If the rear section of the brain gets hurt, people can still eat, breathe and wink.

选项 A、True
B、False
C、Not Given

答案B

解析 题干要求判断如果大脑的后部受伤了,人们是否还可以吃饭、呼吸和眨眼睛。文中第四段提到了大脑后部的功能,即“which controls functions like eating and breathing”(控制着吃饭和呼吸等功能),而且“does not contract with age”(不会随着年龄的增长而萎缩)。如果大脑后部受伤了,人们就不能吃饭、呼吸了,所以题干是错误的。
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