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Research Shows Walking Can Lift Depression

New research by German scientists shows that author Charles Dickens was onto a good thing1 when he took long, brisk walks to relieve periodic bouts of depression. The author of Oliver Twist and David Coppeifield would walk for hours in the 1860s as an antidote to2 intense feelings of sadness which alternated with3 restless euphoria._____1_____

Aerobic exercise like rapid walking can be more effective at lifting depression than drugs, reported the scientists led by Dr. Fernando Dimeo._____2_____The team found that in 10 of these patients drugs had failed to bring any substantial improvement. The team devised an exercise regime for the group that involved walking on a treadmill for 30 minutes every day.______3____The intensity of the training programme was stepped up4 as the heart rate adapted. A measurement of depression severity was taken at the start and the end of the programme, and patients were asked to rate their own mood regularly over a 10-day period. The researchers in Berlin found that after 10 days of the course six patients felt “substantially less depressed”._____4_____Two were slightly less depressed, while four others remained unchanged. Depression levels overall fell by a third5 and on the self-assessed scores by 25 per cent, said the researchers whose findings appeared in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

The study was small but the extent of the improvement was said by scientists to be impressive.______5____ Nineteenth century doctors would have called Dickens’s condition melancholia since the psychological condition of depression was unknown. Dickens biographer Peter Ackroyd says the author’s son Charles remembers his father’s “heavy moods of deep depression” and many times of “intense nervous irritability”，something modern psychologists would certainly recognize6.

词汇：

brisk 轻快的 periodic 周期性的

bout (疾病的)发作 antidote 解毒剂;矫正办法

alternate .交替 euphoria 欣快症,异常欣快

aerobic 需氧的,有氧健身法的 regime 制度

treadmill 跑步机 severity 严重程度

pharmacological 药理学的 melancholia 郁症

biographer 传记作者 irritability 急躁,易怒

注释：

1.to be onto a good thing：to have found a good, easy or profitable situation 找到了一个舒适或有利可图的位置

2.antidote后面常跟介词to, for或against,例如：an antidote to poison:解毒药

an antidote against snakebite：蛇药

The cat is the best antidote for the rat.猫是鼠的最大克星。

3.alternate 后面常跟介词with, between 或from... to...，例如：Day alternates with night.昼夜交替。

He alternated between high spirits and low spirits.他的情绪忽高忽低。

He often alternates from one extreme to another.他常走极端。

step up：逐步增加

4.fell by a third：下降了三分之一。介词by可以用来表示升高、增加或降低、减少的程度。

5.something modern psychologists would certainly recognize:而这些病情现代心理学家一定能够识别出来。something 是前面“heavy moods of deep depression”and many times of “intense nervous irritability”的同位语，something后面是个定语从句,省去关系代词that。

练习：

A. The number included five who had not found any relief using drug treatment.

B. Long and brisk walks are not necessarily beneficial to every person.

C. They studied 12 people with severe depression that had lasted an average of nine months.

D. The outcome indicated a clinical benefit which could not be obtained with pharmacological treatment currently available, they said.

E. This is also the advice that experts from the Free University in Berlin are giving today.

F. According to the regime, intense activity lasting three minutes was alternated with walking at half speed for three minutes.

答案与题解：

1.E第一段说到了狄更斯找到了一种方法,即通过散步几小时来缓解悲伤与亢奋交替的紧张情绪。文章的第一段通常都是点明主题,而E项正是文章题目所要具体阐述的内容,故是最佳选项。

2.C第二段第一句说,科学家们报告,像快走这样的有氧运动在消除抑郁情绪方面比药物更有效。显然下面需要具体说明这个结论的证据。C的They studied理所当然地应该指这些科学家。空白处的后一句The team还是指这些人。故用C来连接上下文是最恰当的。

3.F空白处的前一句说,这些科学家为病人制订了一个锻炼计划,选项F一开始就说“根据这个计划”，可见后句与前句之间具有衔接关系,故它是最佳选项。

4.A空白处的前一句说有六位病人感到抑郁程度明显减轻;空白处的后一句说有两位稍微减轻,四位无变化。A说此人数包括五位以前使用药物而病情没有任何缓解的病人,故将它放在此处是最恰当。

5.D空白处的前一句说这次研究(的范围)虽小,但(病人病情)改善的程度却给人很深的印象,此段实际上是对研究作总结。D也是一句总结性的话:“研究结果表明,它对临床是有益处的,而这却是现有的药物治疗所达不到的”，故把它放在此处也是最恰当的。

译文：研究表明散步能缓解抑郁

据德国科学家的最新研究报告，狄更斯找到一种好方法，即通过长时间轻快的散步来减轻周期性发作的沮丧情绪。这位《雾都孤儿》和《大卫·科波菲尔》的作者在19世纪60年代时经常用几个小时的散步来缓解悲伤和亢奋交替的紧张情绪。这也是今天柏林自由大学的专家们给出的建议。

以Femando Dimeo博士为首的科学家们报告说，像快走这样的有氧运动在消除抑郁情绪方面比药物更有效。他们研究了12位严重抑郁的病人，其患抑郁症的平均时间为九个月。科学家们发现药物治疗对他们当中的10位没有实质作用。他们为这些患者设计了一个锻炼计划，要求他们每天在跑步机上行走30分钟.3分钟高强度的行走与3分钟速度减半的行走交替进行。并且该计划的强度随着心率的调整逐步增加。在这个计划的开始和结尾阶段，将会对这些病人的抑郁程度进行测评，而且要求病人们每隔十天就要测定一下自己的情绪。柏林研究人员发现：10天后有六位病人感到“抑郁程度明显减轻”，其中五位是药物治疗根本不起作用的患者。两位略微减轻，四位无变化。研究员们说总体的抑郁程度减轻了三分之一，病人自评的减轻程度为25%，他们的发现被刊登在《英国运动医药杂志》上。

虽然这次研究的范围小，但科学家们认为，这一方法对病情的改善程度给人以深刻的印象。他们认为它对临床是有益处的，而这却是现有药物治疗所达不到的。

由于19世纪时人们对抑郁的心理状况不甚了解，因而那时的医生称的梗死的状况为忧郁症。为狄更斯作传的彼德·阿克瑞德说狄更斯的儿子查尔斯在回忆他的父亲时说过，狄更斯有“深度抑郁”，而且有很多时候“极度暴躁不安”，而狄更斯的这些病情，现代心理学家一定能够识别出来。