第三部分:阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)

第一节(共15小题,每题2分,共30分)

His parents were told to take him home to die after his rare leukaemia(白血病)returned a THIRD time.”They said there was nothing more they could do and gave him a few weeks to live,” says his mum Claire,26. “But that was six months ago and just look at him now! No one can explain why the cancer has suddenly disappeared. The surgeon who phoned me with the news asid he couldn’t believe it. I just burst into tears”.

Jordan, now three, began his amazing battle with leukaemia at just ten weeks old.Claire and her husband Gery,30, were told their son only had a 10% chance of survival. Jordan put up with six months of chemotherapy(化疗) despite being the youngest patient with cancer that doctors at Yorkhill Children’s Hospital in Glasgow had ever treated. And after he had a bone marrow transplant(骨髓移植) in April,2006 it seemed that the cancer was gone.”He started nursery and we really thought we had put this behind us,” says Claire. But in February the following year Jordan fell ill again and was saved by more chemotherapy and a transplant of matching stem cells(干细胞) from a baby in Barcelona. His family sighed with relief again. But in November, 2008 blood tests showed it was back. “The doctors told us to enjoy what few weeks he had left,” says Claire.

But just before Christmas after further bolld tests, came the phone call Claire and Gerry had never dared dream of. Jordan had another test in February which was also clear. Ken Campbell, of the Leukaemia Research Fund, told us: “There is no medical explanation for his recovery.”

56.Which is the right order of the following events?

a.Jordan started nursery.

b.Jordan had the important blood test showing he was all right.

c.Jordan got a terrible disease leukaemia.

d.Jordan had a transplant of matching stem cells from a baby.

A. a-c-b-d-e     B. c-a-d-e-b       C.c-e-d-b-a        D.c-e-a-d-b

57.From the passage we can know_________________.

A. Jordan’s mother didn’t believe what the doctor said about his son’s recovery.

B. Jorda was not the youngest patient with leukaemia in Yorkhill Children’s Hospital

C. it was the doctors who saved little Jordan’s life

D. nobody knows the reason for the disappearance of the cancer.

58.The underlined part in Paragraph 2 probably means”_________”.

A.our son had been left behind us

B.life was too hard for us

C.the difficulties were gone

D.only doctors knew the story behind our son

59.Which would be the best title for the passage?

A.Cancer, not frighting any more

B.A brave boy

C.An unbelievable wonder

D.An interesting story

Electronic waste, or e-waste, refers to electronic products that are no longer usable. This can include TVs, cell phones and computers and other office electronics, electronic toys and videos machines. Today, the average turnover(更换)rate for a computer in the United States is every two years, according to the environmental group, Greenpeace.

The group's Dai Yun says e-waste is a global problem. "The electronic industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The high speed of growth in this industry means more and more electronic products are being wasted and thrown away. If no one decides to retrieve the old products and process them properly, the electronic waste will sweep over the earth like the huge wave behind me and pollute the Earth seriously."

Greenpeace works out that 20 to 50 million tons of e-waste are produced globally each year. The components(部件)in many electronic products contain harmful chemicals that pollute ground water and the environment.

At present , the U.S. has no federal law for the disposal (处理) of e-waste although a few states have e-waste recycling programs in place, but there is no law. The U.S. exports much of its e-waste to third world countries, such as India and China, where workers took apart computers for valuable parts, hoping to sell them for money. But harmful wastes expert, Dr. Bakul Rao, says that's a dangerous practice. "From now on, the recyclers are not very educated. All they know is they can retrieve copper or gold out of it. So, the easiest way to do that is leach (过滤) it out in an acid or burn it off to retrieve it. So, that's where they don't know how to deal with it, neither do they have any health systems in place. So, their exposure is more."

57. What does the underlined word "retrieve" (paragraph 2) probably mean?

 A. look into   B. take apart   C. get back   D. throw away

58. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. The U.S. has strict national laws for dealing with e-waste.

B. Third world countries import e-waste to get valuable parts, which is a safe and easy way to make money.

C. The way uneducated workers deal with old computers does great harm to the environment as well as to their own health.

D. More and more electronic waste is being wasted and thrown away mainly because of

people's bad habits.

59. What is the purpose of writing the passage?

A. To attract more people's attention to e-waste.

B. To call on people not to throw away e-waste anywhere.

C. To tell people what e-waste is and how to deal with it well.

D. To warn people to break away from the electronic industry.

60. The next paragraph probably concerns_______.

A. how to deal with e-waste properly

B. how to protect ourselves from harm by e-waste

C. How to slow down the development in the electronic industry

D. how to make full use of e-waste

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