Our Muscles
①When we think of muscles, we might often picture a bodybuilder with big arm and leg muscles. But our muscles do not have to look like that to work well.
②As a matter of fact, every time we write our name, we use the 20 different muscles in our hand. Every time our heart beats, we use the our cardiac muscle(心肌). When eat our food, we use our tongue muscles. We even use muscle when we open and close our eye. In fact, every time we move, we use some of the muscles in our body.
③A muscle is made of tiny fibers are packed together to make a single muscle. We all have the same number of muscles about 700 or so. Men and women with big muscles simply have thicker bundles of fibers.
④There are three different types of muscles in our body. Smooth muscles are the ones that we cannot control. They work quietly to keep our body running. Also, they are the oneself that help us to absorb our food. The cardiac muscle makes the heart pump blood in and out. Skeletal muscles are the ones that we can control. These are the muscles that we use to raise our handset, or ride our bicycles.
⑤Even our face often uses muscles. But if we want to save our energy, try smiling instead of frowning. Remember that it takes him 17 muscles in our face to smile, but 43 muscles to frown!
前5道题选项：
A. What a muscle consists of
B. When we use our muscles
C. How people think of muscles
D. What kind of muscles we have
E. Why we have different muscles
F. Why we should smile rather than frown
后5道题选项：
A. frowning
B. a lot of fibers
C. to digest food
D. to function properly
E. whenever we are happy
F. whenever we do something
Smooth muscles help us ______.
【正确答案】：C
【题目解析】：从这句话Also, they are the oneself that help us to absorb our food中，absorb food同义于C digest food。
