职称英语（综合类）模拟试题（二）
For older people, shrinking isn't that dramatic or sudden at all. It takes place over years and may add up to only one inch or so off of their adult height （maybe a little more, maybe less）, and this kind of shrinking can't be magically reversed, although there are things that can be done to stop it or slow it down. ___2___.
There are a few reasons. As people get older, they generally lose some muscle and fat from their bodies as part of the natural aging process. Gravity （the force that keeps your feet on the ground） take hold, and the bones in the spine, called vertebrae, may break down or degenerate, and start to collapse into one another. ___3___. But perhaps the most common reason why some older people shrink is because of osteoporosis.
Osteoporosis occurs when too much spongy bone tissue （which is found inside of most bones） is broken down and not enough new bone material is made. ___4___. Bones become smaller and weaker and can easily break if someone with osteoporosis is injured. Older people — especially women, who generally have smaller and lighter bones to begin with — are more likely to develop osteoporosis. As years go by, a person with osteoporosis shrinks a little bit.
Did you know that every day you do a shrinking act? You aren't as tall at the end of the day as you are at the beginning. That's because as the day goes on, water in the disks of the spine gets compressed （squeezed） due to gravity, making you just a tiny bit shorter. Dont worry, though. ___5___.
A. They end up pressing closer together, which makes a person lose a little height and become shorter.
B. Once you get a good night's rest, your body recovers, and the next morning, youre standing tall again.
C. Over time, bone is said to be lost because it's not being replaced.
D. Luckily, there are things that people can do to prevent shrinking.
E. The kids spend the rest of the movie as tiny people who are barely visible while trying to get back to their normal size.
F. But why does shrinking happen at all?
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Something Men Do Not Like to Do
Eric Brown hates shopping.“It's just not enjoyable to me,”said the 28-year-old Chicago man who was carrying several shopping bags along the city's main street, Michigan Avenue. “When I'm out____1___，I basically know what 1 want to get. I rush in. I buy it. I___2___”
Common wisdom says that guys hate to shop. You can ask generations of men. But people who study shopping say that a number of social, cultural and economic factors are now___3___this“men-hate-to-shop”notion．
“___4___social class, ethnicity, age, men say they hate to shop,”says Sharon Zukin, a City University of New York sociology professor. “Yet when you ask them deeper questions, it turns out that they___5___to shop. Men generally like to shop for___6___, music and hardware. But if you ask them about the shopping they do for books or music, they'll say'Well that's not shopping. That's ___7___”
In other words, what men and women call“buying things”and how they approach that task are ___8____
Women will___ 9___ through several 1,000-square-metre stores in search of the perfect party dress. Men will wander through 100 Internet sites in search of the ___l0___digital camcorder.
Women see shopping as a social event. Men see it as a mission or a___11___to be won.
“Men are frequently shopping to win,”says Mary Ann McGrath, a marketing professor at Loyola University of Chicago. “They want to get the best deal. They want to get the best one. The last one and if they do that it __12__ them happy.”
When women shop,“they're doing it in a way where they want __l3__ to be very happy,”says McGrath.“They're kind of shopping for love.”
In fact, it is in clothing where we see a male-female__14__most clearly. Why, grumble some men, are all male clothes navy, grey, black or brown? But would they wear 1ight green and pink?
These days, many guys wear a sort of“uniform”, says Paco Underhill, author of“Why We Buy”,“It's been hard for them to understand what it means to be fashion-conscious in a business way. It becomes much, much easier if you__15__your range of choices.”
词汇：
guy n．家伙，伙计
mission n．任务，使命
grumble n．抱怨，发牢骚
ethnicity n．种族特点
camcorder n．摄像放像机
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