This month,the journal, Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism(APNM)，published a study by four distinguished exercise scientists who analyzed more than 200 studies of how stretching affects the following exercise. In broad terms, they found that stretching can briefly prevent the ability to generate power. So if yoreach for your toes and hold that position,tightening your hamstrings(腿筋)，yomight not then be able to leap as high or start a dash as forcefully as yodon’t stretch.

Those undesirable effects were generally found,however,only if each stretch was held for more than 60 seconds and the subject then immediately became fully active, with no further warm-up. "Outside the lab, most people are unlikely to hold a warm-up stretch for longer than about 30 seconds. " Dr. McHugh, the co-author of the study says. The review found few lasting negative impacts from these short stretches， especially if the volunteers followed that stretching with several minutes of jogging or other basic warm-up movements. In fact, these short stretches turned out to have a positive effect.

Do these findings mean that all the athletes should stretch in advance before a match? “Not necessarily,”Dr. McHugh says,”Runners and cyclists don’t have much risk for acute muscle injuries. ” Stretching before these activities is unlikely to protect against injury. Runners and cyclists can adequately warm up by jogging or pedaling lighdy. But he suggests that people who play basketball and other ball sports should stretch in advance. Those who haven’t stretched since childhood gym class might want to consider consulting an athlet ic trainer about the best upper and lower body stretches, particularly for the shoulders and hamstrings.

28. Which of the following statements agrees with most fitness experts?

A . Before playing a game yoshould stretch your legs and arms.

B. After attending a match yoshould stretch your legs and arms.

C. It’s harmful to stretch your legs and arms before playing games.

D. It doesn’t matter whether yostretch or not before playing games.

29. According to the new research, people may suffer negative impacts when .

A. they do stretches after attending a game

B. they reach for toes and hold that position

C. following a stretch with several minutes’ jogging

D. dashing immediately after one 60-second plus stretch

30. We can learn from the passage that .

A. all athletes should not stretch in advance

B. the four scientists published the journal APNM

C. it’ s unnecessary for a tennis player to do warm-up stretches

D. players ought to have done warm-up stretches since childhood

31. What’s Dr. McHugh’s attitude toward stretches?

A. Concerned. B. Doubtful. C. Disapproving. D. Objective.D

Dormitory management officials in universities say that lately they are noticing something different： students seem to lack the will and skill to address their oxdinary conflicts. “We have students who are mad at each other and they text each other in the same room,” says a teacher. “So many of our roommate conflicts are because kids don’t know how to negotiate.”

And as many psychologists will tell you, bottled emotions lead to silent unhappiness that can boil over into frustration and anger. “ At Florida University，emotional outbreaks occur about once a week，” the dormitory director says. “It used to be: ‘ Let’s sit down and talk about it,’” he says. “Recently，roommate conflicts have increased. The students don’t have the person-to-person discussions and they don’t know how to handle them.” The problem is most impressive among freshmen; dormitory officials say some students even never seem to catch on till graduation, and they worry about how such students will deal with conflicts after college.

Administrators suppose that relying on cell phones and the Internet may have made it easier for young people to avoid uncomfortable meetings. Why express anger in person when yocan do it in a text? Facebook makes the situation worse as complaints go public. “Things are posted on someone’s wall on Facebook:‘Oh,my roommate kept me up all night studying,”’ says Dana Pysz,an assistant director in the housing office at California University. ‘‘ It’s a different way to express their conflicts to each other. ” In recent group discussions at North Carolina State University, students said they would not even accuse the noisy neighbors on their floor face to face.

Administrators also point to parents who have fixed their children’s problems in their entire lives. Now in college, the children lack the skills to attend to even modest conflicts. Would these parents continue to take care of everything on campus?

32. What does the underlined word “address” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A. To greet someone with a tide or name. B. To start tiying to solve a problem.

C. To put an address on an envelope. D. To make a formal speech.

33. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Students handled it directly when they were in conflict.

B. Parents are the main factor to make their children lose the skills.

C. Cellphones are to blame in the students’ conflicts in their dormitories.

D. Unhappy and cornered emotions resulted in quarrels between students once a week.

34. What do we learn from the group discussions at North Carolina State University?

A. Students are always angry with each other. B. Students have to bear noises from neighbors.

C. Students may be not good at negotiating in person. D. Students are brought up self-centered.

35. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A. Students’ Unhappy Life in University B. Parents’ Attentio n in Children’s Life

C. Students’ Failure to Deal with Conflicts D. Teachers’ Concerns about Students第二节(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

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