《2025年星火英语Spark巅峰训练八年级人教版》

High blood pressure(高血压) is bad for our health. It is the main preventable(可预防的) 1.cause of heart disease. It affects about 1.3 billion people all over the world.
High blood pressure is known as a "silent killer" because we 2.hardly see and feel any symptoms(症状) from it. However, it is a kind of serious disease. It 3.kills about 10 million people every year. Nearly half of Americans and 30 percent of people in the world fight 4.against it.
There are some ways to 5.control high blood pressure. You should eat less salt because too much salt is bad for your blood pressure. You must give up 6.smoking and drinking. Never stay up too late at night 7.although sometimes you have some things to do. You'd better take more exercise... All of them are good ways.
Some researchers have 8.found out a new way to deal with high blood pressure. The way seems much 9.easier than the above ways. Do you want to know this way? Well, it is meditation (冥想) for 45 10.minutes every day. What good news for the people who have high blood pressure! A researcher said, "Meditation is good for the people with high blood pressure. It sounds funny, but that's true. What you need to do is...just relax."

答案： 1. cause 2. hardly 3. kills 4. against 5. control 6. smoking 7. although 8. found 9. easier 10. minutes