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[单选题]Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A New Strategy to Overcome Breast Cancer根据以下材料回答下面的题目:Post-menopausal ( 绝经后 ) women who walk for an hour a day can cut their chance of breast cancer significantly, a study has suggested. The report, which followed 73,000 women for 17 years, found walking for at least seven hours a week lowered the risk of the disease. The American Cancer Society team said this was the first time reduced risk was specifically linked to walking. UK experts said it was more evidence that lifestyle influenced cancer risk.A recent poll for the charity Ramblers a quarter of adults walk for no more than an hour a week, but being active is known to reduce the risk of a number of cancers. This study, published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, followed 73.615 women out of 97,785 aged 50-74 who had been recruited by the American Cancer Society between 1992 and 1993, so it could monitor the incidence of cancer in the group.They were asked to complete questionnaires on their health and on how much time they were active and participating in activities such as walking, swimming and aerobics ( 有氧运动 ) and how much time they spent sitting watching television or reading. They completed the same questionnaires at two-year intervals between 1997 and 2009. Of the women, 47% said walking was their only recreational activity. Those who walked for at least seven hours per week had a 14% lower risk of breast cancer compared to those who walked three or fewer hours per week.Dr. Alpa Patel, a senior epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, Georgia, who led the study, said: "Given that more than 60% of women report some daily walking, promoting walking as a healthy leisure-time activity could be an effective strategy for increasing physical activity amongst post-menopausal women. We were pleased to find that without any other recreational activity, just walking one hour a day was associated with a lower risk of breast cancer in these women." "More strenuous ( 紧张的) and longer activities lowered the risk even more."Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive of Breast Cancer Campaign, said: "This study adds further evidence that our lifestyle choices can play a part in influencing the risk of breast cancer and even small changes incorporate into our normal day-to-day activity can make a difference."She added: "We know that the best weapon to overcoming breast cancer is the ability to stop it occurring in the first place. The challenge now is how we turn these findings into action and identify other sustainable lifestyle changes that will help us prevent breast cancer."All of the following factors relating to cancer risk were mentioned in the passage EXCEPT__________
A. Most women take walking as their only recreational activity.
B. The study aims to track the health conditions of its subjects.
C. Irregular walking increased the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women
D. Walking was the only recreational activity for about half of the women.
回答下面的题目:From Ponzi to MadoffThe year was 1920.The country was the United States of America.The man’s name was Charles Ponzi.Ponzi told people to stop depositing money in a savings account.Instead,they should give it to him to save for them.Ponzi promised to pay them more than the bank.For example,a savings account might pay you$5 a year for every$1 00 you deposit.Ponzi,however,would pay you $40 a year for every $1 00 you gave him to hold.Many people thought this was a good plan.They began to give their money to Ponzi.How could Ponzi make so much money for people? This is what he did with the money people gave him:He used some of that money to pay other people who gave him money.However,he also kept a lot of the money for himself.Soon he had $250 million.This was a kind of theft,and it was against the law.The people who gave him their money didn’t think anything was wrong.Ponzi paid them every month,just like a bank.Ponzi continued this way of working for two years.Then one day,he didn’t have enough money to pay all the people.They discovered his crime,and he went to prison for froud.Ninety years later,people began to hear about a businessman in New York named Bernard Mad off.People said he gave good advice about money.They said when they gave him their money,he paid them a lot more than the bank.Mad off helped hospitals,schools,and individuals earn money.Over a period of 40 years,people gave him$1 70 billion.However,no one investigated what he did with themoney.The people who gave Mad off their money also didn’t think anything was wrong because he paid them every month.One day,Mad off didn’t have enough money to pay all the people he needed to pay.That’s when people discovered how Madoff worked:He was taking money from some people to pay other people, just the way Charles Ponzi did.However,this time,instead of losing millions of dollars,people lost billions.Madoff was accused of fraud,and United States government officials arrested him.He didn’t have to go on trial because he said he was guilty.In 2009,a judge sentenced him to 150 years in prison.Bernard Madoff’s crime was even bigger than Ponzi’s.It was the biggest fraud in history.The lesson of this story is clear:When something seems too good to be true,it probably is !For every$100 Ponzi promises to pay people__________.
根据以下资料,回答下面的题目。 请在第____处填上正确答案。
根据以下资料,回答下面的题目。 请在第_____处填上正确答案。