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高考英语短篇阅读积累 一、穿鞋会损害脚踝吗？ 每天出门穿鞋，我们都习以为常，但你知道吗？有些地方的人不穿鞋或穿非常薄的鞋。那穿 鞋对我们的脚会有什么影响吗？下面就让我们通过这篇文章来了解一下。 Your shoes are changing your feet.The ankles of people who habitually wear shoes are different from those of people who tend to walk barefoot. ankle'kl/n.踝；踝关节 habitually/he'br tf ue li/adv.习惯地；日常地 tend to do..倾向于做…；趋向于做… barefoot'bee fu t/adj.&adv.赤脚的/地 In many industrial societies,people tend to wear shoes from a young age.However,many people around the world often go barefoot,or wear only very thin footwear. industrial/n'dA strie 1/adj.工业的：产业的 footwear/'fu twee(r)/n,鞋类（如鞋和靴） "We know that there are some variations in the feet of modern humans due to the use of shoes,"says Rita Sorrentino at the University of Bologna in Italy.But most previous findings relate to the front and middle of the foot.She and her team have focused on the ankle instead. variation/,vea ri'er∫n/n.变化；变更；变异 previous'pri:vies/adj.先前的；以往的 relate to涉及：与…相关；谈到 They studied 142 ankle bones from 11 populations from North America,Africa and Europe.These included sandal-wearing(穿凉鞋的)Nguni(恩古尼族的)farmers in southern Africa,people living in New York and fossilized bones from Stone Age hunter-gatherers.The hunter-gatherers'ankle bones were significantly shorter than those of people living in modern cities,and there were other differences in the shape.“They are mostly related to footwear-related behaviors and locomotor(运动的) behaviors,"says Sorrentino. fossilized'fp se laI zd/adj.石化的 hunter-gatherer/hA nte'gaoe re(r)/n.采猎者（以打猎和采集植物为生的人） significantly/sIg'nI fI ke ntli/adv,显著地：明显地：有重大意义地 The hunter-gatherers walked barefoot for long distances every day over natural terrain ()Their ankles were relatively flexible.In contrast,people living in big cities,who wear constrictive footwear and walk short distances on flat surfaces like asphalt roads,had more rigid ankles. flexible'f1 ekse bl/adj.灵活的；可变动的；柔韧的：有弹性的 in contrast相比之下；相反 flat/flet/adj.平坦的，水平的 rigid't1d3Id/adj.僵直的；死板的；僵硬的；坚硬的 Changes to ankle bones take place