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The fitness movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s centered around aerobicexercise . Millions of individuals became engaged in a variety of aerobic activities, andliterally thousands of health spas developed around the country to capitalize ( 获利) on thisemerging interest in fitness, particularly aerobic dancing for females. A number of fitness spasexisted prior to this aerobic fitness movement, even a national chain with spas in most major cities.However, their focus was not on aerobics, but rather on weight-training programs designed todevelop muscular mass, strength, and endurance in their primarily male enthusiasts. These fitnessspas did not seem to benefit financially form the aerobic fitness movement to better health, sincemedical opinion suggested that weight-training programs offered few, if any, health benefits. Inrecent years, however, weight training has again become increasingly popular for males and forfemales. Many current programs focus not only on developing muscular strength and endurance buton aerobic fitness as well.
Historically, most physical-fitness tests have usually included measures of muscular strengthand endurance, not for health-related reasons, but primarily because such fitness componentshave been related to performance in athletics. However, in recent years, evidence has shown thattraining programs designed primarily to improve muscular strength and endurance might also offersome health benefits as well. The American College of Sports Medicine now recommends thatweight training be part of a total fitness program for healthy Americans. Increased participation in
such training is one of the specific physical activity and fitness objectives of Healthy People 2000:National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives.
The word "spas" (Line 3, Para.1 ) most probably refers to

A．sports activities
B．places for physical exercise
C．recreation centers
D．athletic training programs

参考答案B

解析: “Millions of individuals became engaged in a variety of aerobic activities,and literallythousands of health spas developed around the country to capitalize(获利)on this emerging interest in fitness，”前半句意思是上百万人投入到有氧操运动中，而后是上千健康spas在全国内发展开来，企图在这场健身热潮中获利。句子中需要注意的是capitalize一词，它是获利的意思。四个答案中，能够获利的只有B和C，可以首先排除A和D。那么这里到底是锻炼身体的场所还是娱乐中心呢?文章的主题是健身锻炼，而不是娱乐，因此可以排除C。

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A．the promotion of aerobic exercise
B．endurance and muscular development
C．the improvement of women's figures
D．better performance in aerobic dancing

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单选题 What was the attitude of doctors towards weight training in health improvement?

A．Positive
B．Indifferent
C．Negative
D．Cautious

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单选题 People were given physical fitness tests in order to find out

A．how well they could do in athletics
B．what their health condition was like
C．what kind of fitness center was suitable for them
D．whether they were fit for aerobic exercise

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