题目内容
8.Emergency rooms (ER) are supposed to cure people but Dr.John Stemgold wonders if working in an ER in Willits made him sick.The ER was downwind of the Remco chrome plant."I used to sit facing that window and kind of daydream out the window,looking at Remco,looking at the fog coming out of there.Then I would cough and cough."Stemgold said.What Dr.Stemgold didn't know was that Remco was flowing out Chromium VI into the air---a chemical known to cause cancer and breathing problems in humans.A recent state health department study found that people who were in Willits when Remco was in operation from 1964to 1995are at higher risk for cancer because of Chromium VI exposure.
Today Dr.Stemgold has lots of time to play his guitar.It turns out he has a form of breathing difficulty.Hospital chemicals cause coughing so violently that he's broken bones and it's cost him his career.Others in this town believe the Chromium has made them sick,too,and their families.Actually,Chromium VI was classified as a carcinogen,a cancer-causing substance,thirty years ago,Twenty years ago,a group of state scientific specialists found no exposure level below which carcinogen effects would not have some probability of occurring.Still,Remco was allowed to flow out Chromium VI into the air.
In the battle to balance public health and a healthy economy,laws often favor business,Alan Ramo is a professor of law at Golden Gate University."There is a real drive to make money,to have employment.When there's a real job that's available and a theoretical risk of a chemical,jobs win out,business wins out."
And chemicals are allowed to flood the marketplace and the government requires strict testing before any drugs can be sold.But the vast majority of industrial chemicals are put into use little testing of any kind Chemicals that people like us,you and me might be exposed to.Marilyn Underwood is with California state health department."You need to have the convincing evidence that something is bad to then start regulating it."However,in most cases,chemicals are not tested until someone reports the abnormal,unnatural condition of the environment in general.
"I think that if people really knew what really goes on with environmental protection I think they would be shocked and they should be."Says Professor Ramo."It might be valuable for other people to know what has happened to me,not for me but for them."He said"because they might be in a similar situation because of where they work."
70.What happened to the people who lived in Willits from 1964-1995D?
A.most of them were forced to move away.
B.They earn a lot of fortune from the factory or the profit it brought about.
C.employees from local area all got sick and lost their jobs at the plant.
D.They have a greater chance of having severe disease.
71.What can we infer from the scientists'finding twenty years agoC?
A.Chromium VI surroundings help surgeons have more casual life.
B.More skillful and capable doctors were needed.
C.There is no safe level of Chromium VI exposure.
D.A group of scientists were trying proper ways to solve the problems.
72.When are new chemicals for industry testedB?
A.When they make smog-forming gases.
B.When some problem is noticed.
C.Ten years after they are first used.
D.When the plant faces collapse.
73.One of the important issues in the story isC.
A.The dangers of emergency rooms that create health problem downwind.
B.Doctors prescribing too many drugs.
C.The battle to balance public health and a healthy economy
D.Why scientists restricted chemical,like Chromium VI.
分析 本文属于说明文阅读,作者通过这篇文章向我们介绍了国家卫生部最近的一项研究发现,从1964年到1995年住在Willits的人得癌症的风险较高,因为这里的铬暴露很严重,作者告诉我们药品出售之前要经过严格的检查.
解答 70.D 细节理解题,根据第二段A recent state health department study found that people who were in Willits when Remco was in operation from 1964to 1995are at higher risk for cancer because of Chromium VI exposure.可知国家卫生部最近的一项研究发现,从1964年到1995年住在Willits的人得癌症的风险较高,故选D.
71.C 推理判断题.根据第三段"Twenty years ago,a group of state scientific specialists found no exposure level below which carcinogen effects would not have some probability of occurring."可以推断出在二十年前没有铬暴露的安全水平,故选C.
72.B 细节理解题.根据第五段"However,in most cases,chemicals are not tested until someone reports the abnormal,unnatural condition of the environment in general."可知当新的化学工业产品开始测试,一些存在的问题被注意到了,故选B.
73.C 细节理解题,根据第四段In the battle to balance public health and a healthy economy,laws often favor business,Alan Ramo is a professor of law at Golden Gate University.可知故事中的一个重要问题是平衡公共卫生与健康经济的斗争,故选C.
点评 考查学生的细节理解和推理判断能力.做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句,和题干进行比较,再做出正确选择.在做推理判断题时不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.
- .No pain,no gain.( )
A. | Really | B. | Obviously | C. | Actually | D. | Exactly |
-Oh, .He is just a bit surprising.( )
A. | don't worry about it. | B. | don't let me down | ||
C. | don't take it for granted | D. | don't get me wrong |
When I was aged thirteen,my father(22)D his store manager,a one-armed guy who could do more with his one arm than many will do with two.With his (23)A gone,my father came to me."Will you come in while I go out to (24)C the day's calls (25)C I find the right person?"he asked.
The store has tens of thousands of (26)A."People like to bargain,"he told me,"So I don't (27)C prices.You just have to know a (28)B."
He took me around."A quarter-horse motor you can sell for four dollars.For a refrigerator,depending on the (29)C,you can sell for thirty-five dollars to sixty dollars.However,if it has a freezer all the way across,sell it for eighty dollars,(30)Dexcellent condition,maybe one hundred dollars.Dishes come in with a houseful of furniture,and I don't even figure them in when I give a price.You can sell them for a nickel to a quarter.Something really nice."
Every day after (31)A,I would pedal down to the store.Soon after,I was writing up a sales slip(纸条)for an attractive plate when my father walked in.I had asked a dollar and the guy did not hesitate.I was very (32)D.My father glanced down at what I was doing,(33)Bthe customer and said,"You sure got a (34)C today.My employee gave you the price and that's the price."
Afterward,I asked my father,"What was that all (35)A?"
It turned out that it was a(n) (36)C plate,worth a few hundred dollars.I was shocked.Here I was (37)D to help my father in the business and instead I was losing money for him.
He said,"I could've stopped the sales if I'd wanted to.You were just writing up the slip and hadn't yet taken the money.(38)C,by civil law,you're (39)Aage.But,a man stands by his word and the word of his agent."
(40)Bmy father a small amount of money,but I learned a lifelong lesson in integrity (正直).
21.A.buy | B.sell | C.order | D.store |
22.A.missed | B.fired | C.dismissed | D.lost |
23.A.manager | B.boss | C.servant | D.salesman |
24.A.ask | B.return | C.answer | D.give |
25.A.if | B.when | C.until | D.unless |
26.A.items | B.goods | C.facilities | D.instruments |
27.A.offer | B.decide | C.mark | D.create |
28.A.name | B.range | C.variety | D.catalogue |
29.A.price | B.situation | C.condition | D.quantity |
30.A.on | B.for | C.by | D.in |
31.A.school | B.work | C.study | D.play |
32.A.upset | B.worried | C.embarrassed | D.pleased |
33.A.turned on | B.turned to | C.turned up | D.turned down |
34.A.plate | B.reward | C.bargain | D.fortune |
35.A.about | B.for | C.around | D.to |
36.A.ordinary | B.fragile | C.antique | D.delicate |
37.A.willing | B.going | C.managing | D.trying |
38.A.However | B.Therefore | C.Besides | D.Consequently |
39.A.under | B.above | C.at | D.of |
40.A.Spent | B.Cost | C.Took | D.Wasted |