Question

B [2015 •安徽合肥高三二检]

Severely disabled people may soon be able to use their noses to write, drive a wheelchair or surf the Internet, thanks to a device(装置)developed by doctors in Israel.

The device will be used by breathing in and out through the nose, according to a study. Healthy people who tested the device quickly learned to play computer games and write sentences by sniffing. Encouraged by the results, the re?searchers decided to test their device on people who are para?lysed (雜 疾的) but whose intelligence remains normal. Ten paralysed people who tested the device quickly learned to use their noses to write words, open a web page, copy words and put them into a search engine.

With their success in helping severely disabled people to communicate, the researchers decided to make use of the new technology to design an electric wheelchair to be driven by sniffs.

Ten healthy people easily mastered sniff-driving a wheel?chair through a maze, and a 30-year-old man who had been paralysed from the neck down for six years was as good a sniff-driver as the healthy participants at his second attempt. In other words, a paralysed person could use the sniff con?troller to drive an electric wheelchair.

At the moment, sniff-controlled technology is still in the stage of development, and the Weizmann Institute of Science has already applied for a patent on the device. "I'll be very happy if it can help us to make money, but the real problem is that I hope someone will develop it, because this would help a lot of people," said Sobel, one of the lead researchers of the study.

4.What's the purpose of the passage?

 A.     To introduce a new invention.

B.     To equip the disabled with life skills.

C.     To show the nose's special functions.

D.     To instruct doctors to apply for a patent.

5.In the test, the paralysed people with normal intelligence can use their noses to .

 A.     type long sentences quickly

B.     play computer games easily

C.      enter a website without much difficulty

D.     communicate with others successfully

 6.With the help of the sniffing device, a 30-year-old disabled man_________ .

 A.     spent six years learning how to drive a wheelchair

B.     failed to drive through the maze at his first attempt

C.     took the wheelchair controlled by healthy participants

D.     managed to drive an electric wheelchair by sniffing

7.From the last paragraph* we can infer that the sniff-con-trolled technology___________ .

 A.     will be applied to other fields of research

B.      needs further developing to serve more people

C.      has become a patent invention

 D.   shows the wisdom and talents of Israeli doctors

Answer 1

B [文章大意]本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了一项新发明。这项发明可以帮助残疾人利用他们的鼻子去完成一些本来难以完成的事情。

4. A 主旨大意题。根据首段的"Severely disabled people may soon be able to use their noses to write, drive a wheelchair or surf the Internet, thanks to a device(装置)developed by doctors in Isra-el."及全文内容来看，本文主要介绍了一项新的发明，故选A项。

5. C 细节理解题。根据第二段的"Ten paralysed people who tested the device quickly learned to use their noses to write words* open a web page, copy words and put them into a search engine."可知选C项。

6.D 细节理解题。根据第四段的"Ten healthy people easily mas-tered sniff-driving a wheelchair through a maze, and a 30-year-old man who had been paralysed from the neck down for six years was as good a sniff-driver as the healthy participants at his second at-tempt."可知，利用这个装置，一个30岁的残疾人像正常人一样自由控制轮椅，故选D项。

7. B 推理判断题。根据最后一段的"At the moment, sniff-con?trolled technology is still in the stage of development, and the Weizmann Institute of Science has already applied for a patent on the. device."可以判断这个装置仍处于试验阶段，故选B项。