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Two professors at the University of California at Berkeley hoped to find out the answer. They
investigated a pool of 12,000 Japanese men equally divided into three groups: One group had lived in
Japan for all their lives, and the other two groups had emigrated to Hawaii or Northern California. It was
found that the rate of heart disease among Japanese men increased five times in California and about half
of that for those in Hawaii.
The study shows that the need to bond with a social group is so fundamental to humans that it
remains the key determinant of whether we stay healthy or get ill, even whether we live or die. We need
to feel part of something bigger to thrive. We need to belong, not online, but in the real world of nugs,
hangsmants, and pats un the back.
What is the best title of this passage?
(A) Heart Diseases and Their Causes
(C) Differences in Japanese Americans
Which of the following is a finding of the two American professors' study?
(A) Many Japanese men that lived up to 100 years were smokers.
(B) Those who often ate hamburgers and fries were more likely to fall sick.
(C) Japanese immigrants to America usually formed a tight-knit community.
(D) Westernized social life was related to the heart-attack rate of Japanese Americans.
Which of the following is an example of "something bigger" in the last paragraph?
(A) A family t
(B) A stadium.
(C) The universe.
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英文考科
The differences could not be explained by any of the usual risk factors for heart disease, such as
smoking, high blood pressure, or cholesterol counts. The change in diet, from sushi to hamburgers and
fries, was also not related to the rise in heart disease. However, the kind of society they had created for
themselves in their new home country was. The most traditional group of Japanese Americans, who
maintained/tight-knit and mutually supportive social groups, had a heart-attack rate as low as their fellow
Japanese back home. But those who had adopted the more isolated Western lifestyle increased their
heart-attack incidence by three to five times.
(B) The Power of Social Connection
(D) The Sense of Belonging vs. Isolation
The digital world.
