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答案见P29 ⑧专项抓分卷十三 语篇类题型组合练（三） 一、阅读理解 A〔2023·许昌二模] ⑧ 语 DEvery time you feel uncomfortable,you can check yourself by taking your temperature.So, what's the average(平均的)human body temperature？Well,if you say37C,maybe you are 题 组 wrong.It turns out that the average body temperature has dropped in the past one hundred and fifty years,according to a new study. ②“Everybody knows that our normal(正常的)temperature is37C,but it is wrong,”said Julie Parsonnet,a Stanford University medical teacher.She and her team looked at medical data (from three different time periods:1860 to 1940,1971 to 1975,and 2007 to 2017. Comparing the data,they found that body temperature has dropped by about 0.02'C every ten years.So what's the new body temperature?"It's 36.6C,"says the study. 3As for the reason,one possible answer is that living in temperature-controlled buildings has changed our bodies.They don't need to work hard to keep the temperature normal.Another is less inflammation()in people's bodies.Inflammation makes your body use more energy( )which increases body temperature.No matter what the reason is,our bodies are changing. 4 Another interesting fact is that men and women have different ideas about what the comfortable temperature is.According to one study,women are comfortable at a temperature of 24C~25C,which is 2.5'C higher than the temperature men like.What's more,studies have shown that as the temperature drops,women's blood runs slower than men's. 5 The human body may have changed over the past hundred years,but one thing that has not changed is that men and women have different feelings about what temperature is comfortable. )1.What is the average human body temperature now? A.36.4℃. B.37℃. C.36℃. D.36.6℃ )2.What does the underlined word "They"refer to? A.Our bodies. B.The medical professors(教授). C.The temperature-controlled buildings. D.Julie Parsonnet and her team. )3.What is the comfortable temperature for men according to the text? A.26.5℃-27.5℃. B.20℃-21℃. C.21.5℃-22.5℃ D.