题目内容
A severely handicapped teenager who cannot walk,talk or hold a paintbrush has won a place at Oxford to study fine art.
Hero Joy Nightingale,16,who communicates through hand movements,is to be given assistants to paint and sculpt on her behalf.Her mother Pauline Reid “translated for” her daughter during interviews for the place at Magdalen College.
The teenager is the most severely handicapped student ever to be granted a place at Oxford.She suffers from “locked-in syndrome”,a profound apraxia caused by brain damage that renders her body useless and her voice mute.
She is unlikely ever to be able to walk,feed or care for herself but,thanks to the efforts of her mother,she can communicate.When Hero was four,Pauline devised a complicated system of hand gestures that equate to the alphabet.
A spokesperson for Oxford said,“The university welcomes applications from students with disabilities.In cases where students are profoundly disabled,there may be many issues that need to be carefully addressed before an individual can take up a place,such as establishing how the student can best be taught and examined.”
Hero,who suffers almost daily epileptic fits and has a hole in her heart,has not attended school since she was six.She has been taught at home by her mother and father,the pro-vice chancellor of Kent University.
Peter Giles,her art tutor until last year,said she has a genuine talent for art.“She is ferociously gifted.We would sit together and her mother would grab her daughter’s hand and then we would begin work,”he said.
Together,they built several modern sculptures from plaster and metal.“The instructions would take a while to decipher.But eventually,they would come,and eventually make sense.”
Hero’s classes will be held at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
Hero communicates with others _________.
A.through common hand movements
B.by typing words on computer
C.through a complicated system of hand gestures devised by her mother
D.by drawing pictures on a board
According to the passage,how does Hero paint or sculpt?
A.She instructs her assistants to paint or sculpt through hand movements.
B.She gives instructions,and her mother paints or sculpts following her instructions.
C.She paints or sculpts with her own hands.
D.She gives instructions,her mother “translates” them,and her assistants paint or sculpt according to the “translations”.
From the story we can infer _________.
A.Oxford welcomes any handicapped student who is good at fine art
B.Hero has not attended school since she was six
C.Hero is gifted in fine art
D.Hero is a strong-minded girl who loves life very much
Which of the following is NOT true?
A.Hero is the most seriously handicapped student ever to be admitted to Oxford.
B.Oxford will admit a disabled student without any requirements.
C.Hero has been taught by her parents at home for10 years.
D.Hero is not able to walk,talk or hold a paintbrush.
【小题1】C
【小题2】A
【小题3】D
【小题4】B
解析:
【小题1】归纳题。由第二段第一句及第四段可知。
【小题2】细节理解题。由第二段第一句可知。
【小题3】推理判断题。从全文可知,Hero的身体高度残疾,却能克服困难,努力向上,可推知其意志坚定,热爱生活。
【小题4】细节理解题。由第五段可知。
LONDON (Reuters)—New faces given to a Chinese man after a bear tore off part of his face and a FrenchCaribbean man disfigured by a rare tumor show that such transplants can work and are not medical oddities (怪异),researchers said.
The findings give hope to some people with severe facial disfigurement and suggest the transplants could prove longlasting without major problems.Despite the tissue rejection in the first year after their transplants,neither men had psychological problems accepting their new faces and have been able to rejoin society,they reported.
Only three people have received face transplants.The world’s first was carried out on French woman Isabelle Dinoire in November 2005 after she was disfigured in an attack by her dog.In 2007,her doctors reported that she had recovered slowly and steadily,overcoming two periods of rejection.
In 2006,Chinese doctors performed a face transplant on a 30yearold hit by a bear.While there were some complications with tissue rejection following the operation,two years later the man was doing well,his doctors said.“This case suggests that facial transplantation might be an option for restoring a severely disfigured face,and could enable patients to bring themselves back into society,” Shuzhong Guo and colleagues at Xijing Hospital in China wrote.
A French team described their work on a 29yearold man who suffered from Von Recklinghausen disease,an illness that changes the shape of his face.“The man,who was not named,was given a new nose,mouth and chin in a 2007 operation.He began to work 13 months after the transplant has more function in his face and has not rejected the new tissue,” his doctors said.
“Our case confirms that face transplantation is practical and effective for the correction of specific disfigurement,” Dr.Laurent Lantieri and colleagues at the HenriMondor hospital outside Paris wrote.
【小题1】What’s the main idea of this passage?
A.Face transplants help regain confidence. | B.Face transplants can work. |
C.Three people have received face transplants. | D.Disfigured people need face transplants. |
A.removing | B.recovering | C.repairing | D.rejecting |
A.The patients usually suffered from tissue rejection. |
B.It was hard for the patients to get along with others. |
C.It took some time for the patients to recover from the operation. |
D.The patients wouldn’t accept the facial change. |