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【题目】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 presents 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.

【5】 Which of the following is NOT one of the risks of the operation?

A. Block of blood vessels.

B. Organ rejection

C. Heart damage.

D. Side effect of the drugs

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】A

【3】D

【4】B

【5】C

【解析】

试题分析：文章说的是一位女士被狗咬，法国外科医生为她做了世界上第一例面部移植手术。并关于这种手术引发的一些事情进行了叙述。

【1】A细节理解题。根据第一段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.法国外科医生在星期三给一个被狗袭击的妇女做了世界上第一例面部移植手术。故选A。

【2】A细节理解题。根据第一段the world's first partial face transplant--- giving a new nose, chin and lips to a woman attacked by a dog.从这里可知这位妇女要做面部手术，她的脸被狗咬了，故选A。

【3】D词义猜测题。根据第五段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. 声明没有说当她完全恢复这位女士会看起来像什么，但是医学专家说她不太可能像女人新面孔的来源。故划线单词意思应该是“相似”，故选D。

【4】B推理判断题。根据第三段“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.等了三天之后，医院简短的陈述“病人处于极好的状态，一直看起来很正常。”宣布动手术。可知手术引起了辩论，故选B。

【5】C排除题。根据倒数第二段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.可知手术要遇到的风险有blood vessels became blocked血管被堵塞；danger of her body rejecting the new skin她的身体拒绝新皮肤；the drugs used could cause cancers药物可能引起癌症的可能性。文章中没有提到“heart damage”，根据句意可知选C。