1 . Walking is good for you.It’s good for your heart, for your lungs, for the muscle and bone growth of your children.Strong scientific evidence now supports the many benefits to health of regular walking.

Walking is connected with reduced death rates for both older and younger adults.In other words, walkers live longer!

In particular, walking has a great effect on cardiovascular disease(心血管病).Fit and active people have around half the risk of cardiovascular disease compared to unfit inactive people.

Even 10-minute walks can increase fitness.One study at Loughbrough University found that women walking continuously for 30 minutes 5 days a week had almost the same increases in fitness as women who divide their 30 minutes into three 10-minute walks.

The majority of studies of young people indicate falling participation in physical activity.Only half of 11-36-year-olds currently walk for ten minutes a day.Children in Britain walk 50 miles a year less than they did a decade ago.Around 20% of children can be classed as overweight.TV, computers, cultural changes and fears for children’s safety out of doors play a large part.

Walking offers a great way to help kids get the active habit.If parents express excitement about the prospect (前景) of a walk in the countryside, they are more likely to pass this feeling to their children.It’s important to treat the walk as an exploration or adventure and to go at the child’s pace, no matter how often they want to stop and look at things, take treats to eat and plenty to drink, and head for some landmarks that will attract them such as a castle, a playground, an ice cream car or a boating pond.If children experience walking as part of a fun activity, they are more likely to want to go again.

1. We know from the passage that regular walking __________.

A．can make people live longer and healthier

B．has nothing to do with cardiovascular disease

C．increases fitness only if you walk as fast as you can

D．will help you put on much weight in a short time

2. Which of the following is a reason why young people walk less than before?

A．They have more homework to do.

B．They have fitness equipment at home.

C．Their parents worry about their safety.

D．They want to learn more knowledge on TV.

3. In the last paragraph the author suggests that __________.

A．children should be led by parents when they play outdoors

B．parents should help their children form a habit of walking

C．parents should not care about their children too much

D．children should do more explorative and adventure activities