2021考研英語長難句復習（三十八）

　　

　　Though typically about two inches taller now than 140 years ago, today’s people – especially those born to families who have lived in the U.S. for many generations – apparently reached their limit in the early 1960s.

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　?、賂he trend in sports, though, may be obscuring an unrecognized reality: Americans have generally stopped growing.

　?、赥hough typically about two inches taller now than 140 years ago, today’s people – especially those born to families who have lived in the U.S. for many generations – apparently reached their limit in the early 1960s.

　　③And they aren’t likely to get any taller. “In the general population today, at this genetic, environmental level, we’ve pretty much gone as far as we can go,” says anthropologist William Cameron Chumlea of Wright State University.

　?、躀n the case of NBA players, their increase in height appears to result from the increasingly common practice of recruiting players from all over the world.

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　　①然而，體育運動的這種趨勢可能隱蓋了這樣一個未被認識的事實：美國人的身高總體上已經停止了增長。

　　②盡管一般來說，現(xiàn)在美國的身高比140年前高了2英寸，但他們，尤其是那些幾代生長在美國家庭中出生的人，其身高在20世紀60 年代初期明顯已達到了極 限。

　?、鬯麄儾粫匍L得更高了。萊特州立大學的人類學家威廉·卡麥隆·查姆利說：“當今，就總人口來說，在現(xiàn)有環(huán)境和基因水平下，我們已經達到了身高的極 限。”

　?、苤劣贜BA 球員，他們身高的增長似乎是從世界各國吸收球員這種日益普遍的做法的結果。