题目内容
阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在表格中的空格处填入恰当的单词。
注意：每个空格只填一个单词。
“HEARTLESS”— a word you wouldn’t want to use to describe a person. But having his heart removed was what saved Craig Lewis’ life—and what made him the first living “heartless” man.
The 55-year-old，dying of heart disease，was told he only had 12 hours to live， when Billy Cohn and Bud Frazier, doctors from the Texas Heart Institute, decided to try something new. They removed Lewis heart and replaced it with an artificial (人造的) one. Less than a week after the operation, Lewis was able to sit and speak.
Lewis kept on living like a normal person, with only one difference—he didn’t have a heartbeat. The human heart usually pumps blood through our bodies by beating regularly. By contrast, this artificial heart pushes the blood forward with two moving blades(桨叶). If you were to touch Lewis or listen to his chest, you would not feel a heartbeat. If you hooked him up to an EKG(心电图) machine, the line would be flat.
Scientists have been trying to create a working artificial heart for years. Until now, all artificial hearts either broke down or caused blocks and infections.
But after five years of hard work, Dr Cohn and Dr Frazier developed this artificial heart. It is smaller and quieter than other artificial hearts and can last much longer. They tested it on 38 calves (牛犊) and all of them turned out energetic and healthy. Lewis is the first human proof that the machine is a success.
The doctors will have to work more on the device and decide on a final design before it can be widely used. The US Food and Drug Administration will also need to say that the machine is safe. But this artificial heart looks likely to bring a ray of hope to thousands of patients.
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A 1. in the history of medicine |
◆ 55-year-old Lewis was on the 2. of death. He was told that he only had 12 hours to live. ◆ Two American doctors had his heart 3. and replaced it with an artificial one. That made Lewis the first living heartless man. |
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Differing from the human heart |
◆ Lewis’ new heart pushes the blood forward with two moving blades. ◆ His heart rate is at 4. with a 5. line on the screen of an EKG machine. |
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6. of this artificial heart |
◆ It is smarter and quieter than other artificial hearts and can last much longer. ◆ It hasn’t yet broken down. Nor has it got 7. and infected. |
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Reasons for being8. about this artificial heart. |
◆ The doctors will have to further 9. the device before it is massively produced. ◆ Yet this artificial heart looks likely to bring the opportunity of 10. to thousands of patients. |
1.wonder/ miracle
2.edge
3.removed
4.zero
5.flat
6.Characteristics/Features /Strengths/Advantages/Benefits
7.blocked
8.hopeful/optimistic/positive
9.improve
10.recovery /life
【解析】
试题分析：55岁的Craig Lewis因为心脏病而被医生宣告生命仅剩下12小时，但是得克萨斯心脏研究所的人员通过移除他的心脏，用人造的心脏取而代之，结果他竟然奇迹般的幸存了下来。在本文中作者介绍了人造心脏这一科学研究成果。
1.wonder/ miracle 信息归纳题。文章讲述了在死亡线上的Craig Lewis通过移植了人造心脏而幸存下来的故事，这是人类医学史上的一个奇迹，所以答案填wonder/ miracle。
2.edge信息转换题。根据文章第二段 The 55-year-old，dying of heart disease，was told he only had 12 hours to live可知Craig Lewis处于死亡的边缘，填edge.
3.removed 细节查找题。根据第二段They removed Lewis heart and replaced it with an artificial (人造的) one可知答案填removed.
4.zero 细节转换题。根据第三段you would not feel a heartbeat，可知他是没有心跳的，所以心跳是零，填zero。
5.flat细节转换题。从文章第三段 If you hooked him up to an EKG(心电图) machine, the line would be flat.可知他的心电图是平的，填flat。
6.Characteristics/Features /Strengths/Advantages/Benefits细节归纳题。根据右栏的信息可知此处是介绍人工心脏的特点，性能等，所以答案是Characteristics/Features /Strengths/Advantages/Benefits。
7.blocked细节转换题。根据文章第四段 Until now, all artificial hearts either broke down or caused blocks and infections.可知人工心脏没有堵塞过，所以填blocked。
8.hopeful/optimistic/positive。信息归纳题。根据右栏信息可知人造心脏会给心脏病患者带来希望，所以人们有理由乐观，答案填hopeful/optimistic/positive。
9.improve细节转换题。根据文章末段he doctors will have to work more on the device and decide on a final design before it can be widely used可知医生要努力去研究提高改善人造心脏的功能等，所以填improve。
10.recovery /life。细节转换题。根据文章末段this artificial heart looks likely to bring a ray of hope to thousands of patients.可知人造心脏会给很多病人带来康复的机会，重新获得健康，所以答案填recovery /life。
考点：考查信息提取。
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Most people feel lonely sometimes, but it usually only lasts between a few minutes and a few hours. This kind of loneliness is not serious. In fact, it is quite normal. For some people, though, loneliness can last for years. Now researchers say there are three different types of loneliness.
The first kind of loneliness is temporary. This is the most common type. It usually disappears quickly and does not require any special attention. The second kind, situation—for example, family problem, the death of a loved one, or moving to a new place. Although this kind of loneliness can cause physical problems, such as headaches and sleeplessness, it usually does not last for more than a year.
The third kind of loneliness is the most severe. Unlike the second type, chronic（the opposite of “temporary”）usually lasts more than two years and has no specific cause. People who experience habitual loneliness have problems socializing and becoming close to others. Unfortunately, many chronically lonely people think there is little or nothing they can do to improve their condition.
Psychologists agree that one important factor in loneliness is a person’s social contacts, for example, friends, family members, co-workers, etc. We depend on various people for different reasons. For instance, our families give us emotional support, our parents and teachers give us guidance, and our friends share similar interests and activities. However, psychologists have found that, though lonely people may have many social contacts, they sometimes feel they should have more. They question their popularity.
Psychologists are trying to find ways to help habitually lonely people for two reasons: they are unhappy and unable to socialize and there is a connection between chronic loneliness and serious illness as heart disease, while temporary and situational loneliness can be a sad, and sometimes dangerous condition.
Loneliness and Disease
| Three different types of【小题1】 | The most common type is 【小题2】 . It disappears quickly and 【小题3】 no special attention. |
| The second type is situation, which usually lasts for 【小题4】 than a year. | |
| The 【小题5】 kind is chronic, which means if people experience habitual loneliness, they’ll have problems socializing with others | |
| An important 【小题6】 in loneliness | With the help of Psychologists, we know a person’s social contact is one important factor. |
| We depend on a wide variety of people for different reasons. For instance, we have interests and activities 【小题7】 to our friends’. | |
| 【小题8】 people may have many social contacts, but they sometimes feel they should have more. | |
| The 【小题9】 for finding ways to help the lonely people | One is that they are unhappy and unable to socialize. |
| The other is that temporary and situational loneliness can be a sad condition, sometimes 【小题10】 too. |
第二节：阅读填空（共10小题，每题1分，满分10分）
认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空填一个单词。
Whenever we meet with difficulty or failure, teachers, parents or others often say to us or perhaps we say to ourselves, “Never give up.” These can be encouraging words and words of determination. A person who believes in himself will keep trying to reach his goal no matter how many times he fails. In my opinion , the quality of determination to succeed is an important one to have. Therefore, I believe that we should never give up.
One reason is that if we give up too easily, we will rarely achieve anything. It is not unusual for us to fail in our first attempt at something new, so we should not feel disappointed and should try again. Besides, if we always give up when we fail , we will not be able to develop new skills and grow.
Another reason we should never give up is that we can learn from our mistakes so that we can not make the same ones. If we do not try again, the lesson we have learned is wasted.
Finally, we should never give up because as we work to reach our goals, we develop confidence, and this confidence can help us succeed in other areas of our lives. If we never challenge ourselves, we will begin to doubt our abilities.
In short, it is important that we do not give up when working for our goals. Whether we succeed in the end or not , we will learn something , and what we learn will help us to become better and more confident. Furthermore, if we give up , we have no chance of attaining our goals any more , but if we keep making great efforts, there is always a chance that we will succeed one day.
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1.If we give up too easily, maybe we will achieve ____74___, so when we fail in our first attempt at something new, we should not___75____ ourselves but try again. 2.Always giving up means that we will not be able to ___76____ any progress. 3.Never giving up will make us learn from the mistakes we’ve made before and learn the ___77____ so as not to make the same mistakes. 4.To reach our goals and develop the confidence which can help us ___78____ourselves, we must not give up but challenge ourselves. |
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If you give up, you will have no__79____of reaching your goals. Never give up and you will attain your goals sooner or ___80____ |
第II卷（非选择题，共35分）
第四部分：任务型阅读（共10小题；每空1分，满分10分）
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New research says 35 percent of child deaths worldwide are caused by hunger. The research comes from poor to middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Robert Black from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland is the lead writer of the research. He says more than 3.5 million mothers and children under five die in poor countries each year because of hunger.
He says about two million children die from underdevelopment, either before or after birth. Millions of others who survive face a lifetime of disabilities or early death and the effects are not just physical. Poor mental development also results from hunger as children grow. Then the
cycle of poverty and hunger often continues for their children.
Doctor Black says hungry children can have conditions like high blood pressure and heart disease as a result of hunger. He says the studies show that food programs need to place the greatest importance on the first two years of life. Hungry children can suffer their whole life damage from age two.
It is high time their diets were improved. Diets should include foods rich in vitamin A and other vitamins and minerals. The researchers say early help such as this could reduce child deaths by 25%.
This research has also faced some criticism. A medical aid group says the researchers underestimate(低估) the number of child deaths due to hunger. The researchers say there are findings that support this treatment but more studies are needed to compare it to hospital care.
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﹡Of all child deaths throughout the world, 35 percent (72) ▲ from hunger. ﹡The children in poor or middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are faced with such a situation. ﹡Each year hunger causes (73) ▲ 3.5 million mothers and children under 5 in poor countries to die. |
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﹡Around two million children die of huger before or after they are (75) ▲ . ﹡Millions of the survivors will be disabled all their lives or die at an early (76) ▲ . ﹡Hunger can also result in children’s bad mental development. ﹡Hunger can (77) ▲ to high blood pressure and heart trouble, too. |
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﹡Food programs must realize the period between the birth and the age of two is the most (79) ▲ for children’s physical development. ﹡Diets should be improved. ﹡Diets should contain food with (80) ▲ vitamins and minerals. |
第四部分：任务型阅读（每小题1分，满分10分）
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注意：每空格1个单词。
At the age of twelve years, the human body is at its most vigorous. It has yet to reach its full size and strength, and its owner his or her full intelligence; but at this age the likelihood of death is least. Earlier we were infants and young children, and consequently more vulnerable; later, we shall undergo a progressive loss of our vigour and resistance which, though not felt at first, will finally become so sudden and quick that we can live no longer, however well we look after ourselves, and however well society, and our doctors, look after us. This decline in vigour with the passing of time is called ageing. It is one of the most unpleasant discoveries which we all make that we must decline in this way, that if we escape wars, accidents and diseases we shall eventually die of old age, and that this happens at a rate which differs little from person to person, so that there are heavy odds in favour of our dying between the ages of sixty-five and eighty. Some of us will die sooner, a few will live longer-- on into a ninth or tenth decade. But the chances are against it, and there is a virtual limit on how long we can hope to remain alive, however lucky and strong we are.
Normal people tend to forget this process unless and until they are reminded of it. We are so familiar with the fact that man ages, that people have for years assumed that the process of losing vigour with time, of becoming more likely to die the older we get, was something self-evident, like the cooling of a hot kettle or the wearing-out of a pair of shoes. They have also assumed that all animals, and probably other organisms such as trees, or even the universe itself, must in the nature of things 'wear out'. Most animals we commonly observe do in fact age as we do if given the chance to live long enough; and mechanical systems like a wound watch or the sun, do in fact run out of energy in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics (whether the whole universe does so is a matter about which there may be disagreement or uncertainty at present). But these are not similar to what happens when man ages. A run-down watch is still a watch and can be rewound. An old watch, by contrast, becomes so worn and unreliable that it eventually is not worth mending. But a watch could never repair itself, it does not consist of living parts, only of metal, which wears away by friction. We could, at one time, repair ourselves well enough, at least, to overcome all but the most instantly fatal illnesses and accidents. Between twelve and eighty years we gradually lose this power; an illness which at twelve would knock us over, at eighty can knock us out, and into our grave. If we could stay as vigorous as we are at twelve, it would take about 700 years for half of us to die, and another 700 for the survivors to be reduced by half again.
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Infants and children under 12 are more easily ____72___ physically or emotionally. At 12, we are ____73____ active and full of energy. Later, we will ___74___ our energy or enthusiasm continuously. Finally we can’t live any longer no matter how ___75___ we are cared for. |
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Not noticeable at first Not avoidable in the end Not the ____76___ speed for everyone |
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Just taking the ageing with time ____77___ for granted. Simply thinking all living things or other systems also ___78___ the same way as we humans do. |
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We humans can ___79___ ourselves well enough to live a longer life, ___80___ the other living things or systems can’t. |
请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。
注意：每空格1个单词。
People say teenagers are no good. They make too much noise in shopping malls; they drive recklessly up and down America’s main streets; they carry chips on their shoulders as big as the Sears Tower. And at least some of the time those things are true. But we shouldn’t forget that there are hard moments in the life of a teenager too.
I watched such a moment not long ago at a woman’s funeral. I didn’t expect the event to affect me. Through much of the ceremony, in fact, I remained unmoved.
Then her teenage grandson stepped forward. With his very first deep breath, every heart in that church was achingly reminded of something we had all forgotten. Softly he began: “I want to share a few values that Nana taught me. She never failed to see light in any situation. When our family dog would literally attract her, what would Nana say? ‘Oh, what beautiful markings that dog has.’ That was Nana.
“She was a strong woman who often lived in the shadow of my grandpa, who was a successful businessman in this city. But she was the one behind the scenes who provided the strength and support for Grandpa’s career,” he said, with a voice now trembling. “That was Nana’s way.”
Through a muffled sob, he continued. “Whenever she did anything worth recognition, you’d have to hear about it from a different source, because she was never one to brag.”
Finally, in a voice breaking free of sorrow, he looked up and said, “Nana taught me courage. She put up an incredible fight to the end, when she died peacefully, which is how she lived her life. That was Nana’s way, and I hope I can carry on in the same manner.”
There are no hearts as sensitive as those of teenagers, because everything is happening to them for the first time. The trouble with teenagers is that they haven’t learned to be controlled.
When that boy rose to speak about the woman who surely had been his truest ally and dearest friend, his honest voice dragged each of us out into the open where we could no longer hide in the calm ritual. He exposed us to the truth about this very real woman who believed in a boy who probably tried the patience of many adults. He reminded us that his grandmother was more than another dot on the chart of life and death.
All over again we felt those powerful losses crisscrossing our own hearts, and we knew that when you say good-bye to a beloved grandparent, you say good-bye to something happy, something young in yourself. And that something never really returns, and the pain never really goes away.
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I seldom felt (2) ________at a funeral. But from the boy’s speech, I know his grandmother had great (3) _________ on the boy when she was alive. |
This time at the (4)_________, the author felt differently. |
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She would always found something (5) _______ even in some unpleasant situation. |
She was a respectful woman who never (6) ________ off her talent in business. |
She had a strong will and would never (7) ______ her career till she died. |
The author was in deep (8) ____ at the moving situation. |
The author has changed his (9) ________ on teenagers through this funeral ceremony. |
The only problem with the young is that they can’t (10)________ themselves well. |