French surgeons have performed what they said on Wednesday was the world's first partial face transplant--- giving a new nose, chin and lips to a woman attacked by a dog.

Specialists from two French hospitals carried out the operation on a 38-year-old woman on Sunday in the northern city of Amiens by taking the face from a brain-dead woman, who had hanged herself just hours before the operation. Her family agreed on the operation.

 “The patient is in an excellent state and the transplant looks normal,” the hospitals said in a brief statement after waiting three days to announce the pioneering surgery.

The woman had been left without a nose and lips after the dog attacked her last May, and was unable to talk or chew properly. Such injuries are “extremely difficult, if not impossible” to repair using normal surgical techniques, the statement said.

The statement did not say what the woman would look like when she had fully recovered, but medical experts said she was unlikely to resemble the woman who had been the source of her new face.

The operation was led by Jean-Michel Dubernard, a specialist from a hospital in Lyon who has also carried out hand transplants,

Skin transplants have long been used to treat burns and other injuries, but operations around the mouth and nose have been considered very difficult because of the area's high sensitivity to foreign tissue.

Teams in France, the United States and Britain had been developing techniques to make face transplants a reality

There was a short-term risk for the patient if blood vessels became blocked, a medium-term danger of her body rejecting the new skin and a long-term possibility that the drugs used could cause cancers.

Experts say that although such medical advances should be celebrated, the transplant had thrown up moral(道德的)and ethical(伦理的)issues. Little is known about the psychological effect of the transplant.

The best title for the passage would be ________.

A. French Woman has First Partial Face Transplant

B. First Face Transplant Opens Debate

C. Risks and Ethical Problems of a Face Transplant

D. A Complete Face Transplant of a French Woman

Why did the woman need such an operation?

A. Her face had been bitten by a dog

B. Her face had been burnt in a fire.

C. She was born especially ugly

D. She wanted to test such an operation.

The underlined word "resemble"  means ________.

A. to remember forever

B. to recognize immediately

C. to set as an example

D. to present similarity or likeness to

What can we learn about the operation?

A. The woman had used the dead woman' s whole face.

B. There has arisen a debate about the operation.

C. The woman will suffer from psychological damage soon.

D. Such transplants have been performed by doctors.

Now that I am no longer young, I have friends whose mothers have passed away. I have heard these sons and daughters say they never fully appreciated their mothers ___【小题1】___ it was too late to tell them. I am blessed (赐福) with the dear mother who is still alive. I ___【小题2】___ her more each day. My mother does not change, but I ___【小题3】___ . As I grow older and wiser, I realize ___【小题4】___ an extraordinary person she is. How ___【小题5】___ that I am unable to speak these words in her ___【小题6】___ , but they flow easily from my pen.
  How does a daughter begin to thank her mother for life itself? For the love, patience and just ___【小题7】___ hard work that go into ___【小题8】___ a child? For running after a toddler (学走步的小孩), for understanding a ___【小题9】___ teenager, for tolerating (忍受;容忍) a college student who knows ___【小题10】___ ? For waiting for the day when a daughter ___【小题11】___ how wise her mother really is?
  How does a ___【小题12】___ woman thank a mother for ___【小题13】___ to be a mother? For being ready ___【小题14】___ advice (when asked) or remaining ___【小题15】____ when it is most appreciated? For not saying, “I told you so,” when she could have uttered these words ___【小题16】___ ? For being ___【小题17】___ herself-loving, thoughtful, patient, and forgiving?
  I don’t know how, dear God, except to ask you to bless her as richly as she ___【小题18】___ and to help me live up to the example she has ___【小题19】___ . I pray that I will look as good in the eyes of my children as my mother ___【小题20】___ in mine.

【小题21】
A.asB.thatC.untilD.when
【小题22】
A.approveB.appreciateC.needD.resemble
【小题23】
A.doB.haveC.didD.will
【小题24】
A.howB.thatC.whoD.what
【小题25】A.sad           B.glad              C.comic            D tragic
【小题26】
A.absenceB.presenceC.appearanceD.existence
【小题27】
A.commonB.plainC.normalD.usual
【小题28】
A.raisingB.risingC.developingD.training
【小题29】
A.childishB.energeticC.fearlessD.moody
【小题30】
A.anythingB.somethingC.everythingD.nothing
【小题31】
A.detectsB.discoversC.recognizesD.realizes
【小题32】
A.prettyB.foolishC.greenD.grown
【小题33】
A.failingB.intendingC.continuingD.keeping
【小题34】
A.byB.withC.forD.on
【小题35】
A.silentB.quietC.coolD.noiseless
【小题36】
A.dozen timesB.a dozen of times C.dozens of times D.dozen of time
【小题37】
A.valuablyB.essentiallyC.naturallyD.virtually
【小题38】
A.devotesB.desertsC.deservesD.desires
【小题39】
A.setB.settledC.placedD.fixed
【小题40】
A.seesB.findsC.isD.looks

 French surgeons have performed what they said on Wednesday was the world's first partial face transplant--- giving a new nose, chin and lips to a woman attacked by a dog.

Specialists from two French hospitals carried out the operation on a 38-year-old woman on Sunday in the northern city of Amiens by taking the face from a brain-dead woman, who had hanged herself just hours before the operation. Her family agreed on the operation.

 “The patient is in an excellent state and the transplant looks normal,” the hospitals said in a brief statement after waiting three days to announce the pioneering surgery.

The woman had been left without a nose and lips after the dog attacked her last May, and was unable to talk or chew properly. Such injuries are “extremely difficult, if not impossible” to repair using normal surgical techniques, the statement said.

The statement did not say what the woman would look like when she had fully recovered, but medical experts said she was unlikely to resemble the woman who had been the source of her new face.

The operation was led by Jean-Michel Dubernard, a specialist from a hospital in Lyon who has also carried out hand transplants,

Skin transplants have long been used to treat burns and other injuries, but operations around the mouth and nose have been considered very difficult because of the area's high sensitivity to foreign tissue.

Teams in France, the United States and Britain had been developing techniques to make face transplants a reality

There was a short-term risk for the patient if blood vessels became blocked, a medium-term danger of her body rejecting the new skin and a long-term possibility that the drugs used could cause cancers.

Experts say that although such medical advances should be celebrated, the transplant had thrown up moral(道德的)and ethical(伦理的)issues. Little is known about the psychological effect of the transplant.

1.The best title for the passage would be ________.

A. French Woman has First Partial Face Transplant

B. First Face Transplant Opens Debate

C. Risks and Ethical Problems of a Face Transplant

D. A Complete Face Transplant of a French Woman

2.Why did the woman need such an operation?

A. Her face had been bitten by a dog

B. Her face had been burnt in a fire.

C. She was born especially ugly

D. She wanted to test such an operation.

3.The underlined word "resemble"  means ________.

A. to remember forever

B. to recognize immediately

C. to set as an example

D. to present similarity or likeness to

4.What can we learn about the operation?

A. The woman had used the dead woman' s whole face.

B. There has arisen a debate about the operation.

C. The woman will suffer from psychological damage soon.

D. Such transplants have been performed by doctors.

 

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