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Is there anything more important than health？I don’t think so.“Health is the greatest wealth，” wise people say.You can’t be good at your studies or work well when you are ill.
If you have a headache，toothache，backache，earache or bad pain in the stomach，if you complain of a bad cough，if you run a high temperature and have a bad cold，or if you suffer from high or low blood pressure，I think you should go to the doctor’s.
The doctor will examine your throat，feel your pulse，test your blood pressure，take your temperature，sound your heart and lungs，test your eyes，check your teeth or have your chest Xrayed.After that he will advise some treatment，or some medicine.The only thing you have to do is to follow his advice.
Speaking about doctor’s advice，I can’t help telling you a funny story.
An old gentleman came to see the doctor.The man was very ill.He told the doctor about his weakness，memory loss and serious problems with his heart and lungs.The doctor examined him and said there was no medicine for his disease.
He told his patient to go to a quiet place for a month and have a good rest.He also advised him to eat a lot of meat，drink two glasses of red wine every day and take long walks.In other words，the doctor advised him to follow the rule，“Eat at pleasure，drink with measure and enjoy life as it is.” The doctor also said that if the man wanted to be well again，he shouldn’t smoke more than one cigarette a day.
A month later the gentleman came into the doctor’s office.He looked cheerful and happy.He thanked the doctor and said that he_had_never_felt_a_healthier_man.
“But you know，doctor，” he said，“it’s not easy to begin smoking at my age.”
64．The writer thinks that________.
A．health is more important than wealth
B．work is as important as studies
C．medicine is more important than pleasure
D．nothing is more important than money
65．The underlined part “he had never felt a healthier man” means “________”．
A．he was feeling better than ever
B．he wasn’t a healthy man
C．he was feeling worse than before
D．he will be well again
66．From the last sentence of the passage，we learn the man________before the doctor told him not to smoke more than one cigarette a day.
A．was a heavy smoker B．didn’t smoke so much
C．didn’t smoke D．began to learn to smoke
67．Which of the following is NOT true?
A．The doctor usually tests his/her blood pressure when a person is ill.
B．The man told the doctor he couldn’t remember things.
C．The man thanked the doctor.
D．The man didn’t follow the doctor’s advice.
What will man be like in the future-in 5000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today. For man is slowly changing all the time.
Let us take an obvious example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. Five hundred years is relatively short period of time, so we may suppose that man will continue to grow taller. Again, in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make use of only about 20% of the brain's capacity. As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and eventually we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring about a physical change to the head, in particular the forehead, will grow larger.
Nowadays our eyes are in constant use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become weaker and we have to wear glasses. But over very long period of time it is likely that man's eyes will grow stronger.
On the other hand, we tend to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive because they are used a great deal in modern life.
But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body altogether in course of time because it does not serve a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald.
Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very attractive creature to look at! This may well be true. All the same, in spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in common with use. He will still be a human being, with thoughts and emotions similar to our own.
71. The passage mainly tells us that ________.
A. man's life will be different in the future
B. future man will look quite different from us
C. man is growing taller as time passes
D. man will disappear
72. What serves as the evidence（证据）that man is changing?
A. Man has got stronger eyes now than he ever had.
B. Man's hair is getting thinner and thinner.
C. Man's arms and legs have become lighter and weaker.
D. Man has been growing taller over the past 500 years.
73. The change in man's size of forehead is probably because ________.
A. he makes use only 20 % of the brain's capacity
B. his brain has grown larger over the past centuries
C. the other 80% of his brain will grow in due time
D. he will use his brain more and more as time goes on
74. What is true about a human being in the future?
A. He is hairless because hair is no longer useful.
B. He has smaller eyes and wears better glasses.
C. His fingers grow weaker because he doesn't have to make use of them.
D. He thinks and feels in different way.
75. We can infer that _______.
A. human beings will become less attractive in the future.
B. less use of a bodily organ may lead to its becoming worse
C. human beings hope for a change in the future life
D. future life is always predictable
Sometime today — perhaps several times — Dick Winter will think about the 19-year-old who saved his life.
Because of this young man, Winter enjoys things like friendships, colours and laughter every day.
The young man saved Winter’s life by signing an organ donor card (器官捐献卡).
“I can’t say thank you enough,” Winter said yesterday at the news conference marking the tenth anniversary (周年纪念日) of the Multi Organ Transplant (移植) Program at Toronto General Hospital.
What Winter knows of the 19-year-old who saved his life is only that he died in a car accident and that his family was willing to honour his wishes and donate his organs for transplantation.
His liver (肝脏) went to Winter, who was dying from liver trouble. “Not a day goes by that I don’t think of what a painful thing it must have been for them,” Winter said yesterday.
“They are very, very special people.”
Winter, 63, is fitter now than he was 10 years ago, when he got the transplant. He has five medals from the 1995 World Transplant Games in swimming and hopes to collect some more next year in Japan.
“At one time, we were probably strange people in the eyes of other people. Now it’s expected you should be able to go back and do everything you did before, only better.”
The biggest change for Winter, however, isn’t that he has become a competitive athlete. The biggest change is how deeply he appreciates every little thing about his life now.
“ I have no time for arguments,” said Winter.
“You change everything. Material things don’t mean as much. Friendships mean a lot.”
Also at yesterday’s news conference was Dr. Gray Levy, Winter’s doctor.
Levy said he has bitter-sweet feelings when he looks at Winter and hears of his athletic exploits.
Levy knows that for every recipient (接受者) like Winter, there are several others who die even though they could be saved because there aren’t enough donated organs.
“For every Mr. Winter, we have five to ten people that will never be given the chance that Mr. Winter was given,” Levy said.
Levy said greater public awareness (意识，认识) and more resources are needed. He noted that in Spain and the United States, hospitals receive $10,000 per donor to cover the costs of the operating room, doctors, nurses and teams to work with the donors’ families.
1．Which of the following is true about the 19-year-old?
A. He died of liver trouble. B. He got wounded in a battle.
C. He was willing to donate his organs. D. He became a recipient of a prize.
2．What do we learn about Dick Winter?
A. He is becoming less competitive now.
B. He is always thinking about his early life.
C. He knows all about the young man and his family.
D. He values friendships more than material things.
3．Dr. Levy would agree that __________.
A. Spanish hospitals have more favorable (有利的) conditions for organ transplant
B. the Canadian public have realized the importance of organ donation
C. Spanish hospitals received more money from the donors
D. Canadian hospitals now have enough donated organs
4．What’s the author’s purpose in writing this article?
A. The public should give more support to organ transplant.
B. Transplant patients are thankful for the help they receive.
C. Transplant can change a patient’s life greatly.
D. It is not easy to get organs for transplant.
Bobby was sitting out in his back yard in the snow. The thin sneakers he wore had a few holes in them. Try as he might, he could not come up with an idea for his mother’s Christmas gift.
Ever since his father had passed away three years ago, his mother worked nights at the hospital, but the small wage could only be stretched so far.
What the family lacked in money and material things, they more than made up for in love and family unity. They ran the household in their mother’s absence. All three of his sisters had already made beautiful gifts for their mother.
It was Christmas Eve already, and he had nothing. Bobby started to walk down to the street. He walked from shop to shop. Everything seemed so beautiful and so out of reach. It was starting to get dark, then suddenly his eyes caught a shiny dime. Never has anyone felt so wealthy as Bobby did at that moment.
He went inside a flower shop. When the owner asked if he could help him, Bobby presented the dime and asked if he could buy one flower. The shop owner looked at Bobby, then said, “You just wait here and I’ll see what I can do for you.”
The shop owner returned holding red roses all tied together with a big silver bow. Bobby’s heart sank as the owner placed them gently into a long white box. “That will be ten cents, young man,” said the shop owner, reaching out his hand for the dime. Slowly, Bobby moved his hand to give the man his dime.
Then the shopkeeper’s wife appeared. “Where are the roses you were fixing?”
The shop owner replied, “A strange thing happened to me this morning. I thought I heard a voice telling me to set aside a dozen of my best roses for a special gift. I wasn’t sure at the time whether I had lost my mind or what, but I set them aside anyway. When I saw that little boy tonight, I knew who that voice was.”
56. According to the first three paragraphs we know that _____.
A. Bobby’s sisters didn’t help Bobby to buy a gift
B. Bobby had known what gift he’d give to his mother
C. the children in the family all loved their mother
D. Bobby’s family was rich before his father died
57. Why did Bobby walk along the street?
A. Because he didn’t know what to do.
B. Because he wanted to try his luck there.
C. Because he wanted to get some money.
D. Because he hoped to see what he could get.
58. What could he buy with a dime then?
A. A flower. B. Nothing. C. A piece of cake. D. Many flowers.
59. Bobby slowly gave the dime to the shop owner because _______.
A. he did not want any rose flowers
B. the flowers weren’t worth a dime
C. the shop owner would cheat him
D. he hardly believed what had happened
60. From the last two paragraphs we can infer that the shop owner ______.
A. was shocked by the voice he heard
B. was always ready to help others
C. didn’t know how to run a business
D. was good at making up stories
