高三英语二模阅读理解

　　B. Romance novels are not of much “nutrition”.

　　C. Romance novels are as popular as hot dogs.

　　D. Romance novels are an essential part of contemporary life.

　　60. In the author’s opinion, what is missing in the lives of contemporary women?

　　A. Authority. B. Dignity. C. Liberty. D. Care.

　　61. Which sentence can be put in the blank in the last paragraph?

　　A. they prefer tales of innocent romance to classics

　　B. they are unhappy with how the world has turned out

　　C. true love described in romance novels does exist in reality

　　D. romance novels provide them with an access to society

　　英语阅读理解C

　　For centuries, medical pioneers have refined a variety of methods and medicines to treat sickness, injury, and disability, enabling people to live longer and healthier lives.

　　“A salamander (a small lizard-like animal) can grow back its leg. Why can't a human do the same?” asked Peruvian-born surgeon Dr. Anthony Atala in a recent interview. The question, a reference to work aiming to grow new limbs for wounded soldiers, captures the inventive spirit of regenerative medicine. This innovative field seeks to provide patients with replacement body parts.

　　These parts are not made of steel; they are the real things --- living cells, tissue, and even organs.

　　Regenerative medicine is still mostly experimental, with clinical applications limited to procedures such as growing sheets of skin on burns and wounds. One of its most significant advances took place in 1999，when a research group at North Carolina’s Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine conducted a successful organ replacement with a laboratory-grown bladder. Since then, the team, led by Dr. Atala, has continued to generate a variety of other tissues and organs 一 from kidneys to ears.

　　The field of regenerative medicine builds on work conducted in the early twentieth century with the first successful transplants of donated human soft tissue and bone. However, donor organs are not always the best option. First of all, they are in short supply, and many people die while waiting

　　for an available organ; in the United States alone, more than 100,000 people are waiting for organ transplants. Secondly, a patient’s body may ultimately reject the transplanted donor organ. An advantage of regenerative medicine is that the tissues are grown from a patient’s own cells and will not be rejected by the body’s immune system.

　　Today, several labs are working to create bioartificial body parts. Scientists at Columbia and Yale Universities have grown a jawbone and a lung. At the University of Minnesota, Doris Taylor has created a beating bioartificial rat heart. Dr. Atala’s medical team has reported long-term success with bioengineered bladders implanted into young patients with spina bifida (a birth defect that involves the incomplete development of the spinal cord). And at the University of Michigan, H. David Humes has created an artificial kidney.

　　So far, the kidney procedure has only been used successfully with sheep, but there is hope that one day similar kidney will be implantable in a human patient. The continuing research of scientists such as these may eventually make donor organs unnecessary and, as a result, significantly increase individuals’ chances of survival.

　　62. In the latest field of regenerative medicine, what are replacement parts made of?

　　A. Donated cells, tissues and organs.

　　B. Rejected cells, tissues and organs.

　　C. Cells, tissues and organs of one’s own.

　　D. Cells, tissues and organs made of steel.

　　63. What have scientists experimented successfully on for a bioartificial kidney?

　　A. Patients. B. Rats. C. Sheep. D. Soldiers.

　　64. Why is generative medicine considered innovative?

　　A. It will provide patients with replacement soft tissues.

　　B. It will strengthen the human body’s immune system.

　　C. It will shorten the time patients waiting for a donated organ.

　　D. It will make patients live longer with bioartificial organs.

　　65. What is the writer’s attitude towards regenerative medicine?

　　A. Positive. B. Negative. C. Doubtful. D. Reserved.

　　英语阅读理解D

　　An old man in a faded yellow shirt sat in a windowless room on a raised concrete form. The only source of heat came from somewhere beneath the plastic mattress and the rough blanket the blank-faced police woman had handed him after taking his thumb prints. He heard voices and metallic clang as the cell door swung open.

　　At the front desk a tired looking policeman handed the old man back his belongings, his worn-out cap and the Seiko watch that had stopped working the day his beloved Evelyn left. The policeman dramatically held the blue plastic bag at an arm’s length to the old man who took it and made sure its contents were undamaged: the goat meat, palm oil, leaves and spices. He ignored the confused expression on the officer’s face and signed the document declaring he had been returned the possessions they had taken off him the night before.

　　No one spoke to him as he walked slowly towards the exit.

　　“Mr. Easy-nwa?” He stopped and prayed to the God who now took care of Evelyn to please take him far away from this unhappy place of expressionless faces, clipped accents and people who did not even attempt to pronounce his name right.

　　“Ezenwa,” He said and looked at a woman with tangerine lips, her name tag said Jessica Harlow, Social Services. “A bit far from home，，，she said as she drove fast and with confidence the way Evelyn used to. He wondered if she meant the 50 miles from Liverpool or the 50,000 miles from Enugu，a city in Nigeria. He did not bother replying as this woman had plenty to say about the weather, bad drivers, her daughter’s school play...

　　At last she drew up outside the block of flats where he lived.

　　“Got here in the end”，said she seriously, “Really Mr. Easy-nwa, if you keep getting lost, we will have to consider moving you into a home”.

　　“No need, I was not lost，，，he answered. He carefully rolled up the sleeves of the oversize bomber jacket he wore and turned on the tap to wash his hands, relieved the pipes were not frozen. In a clean pan he placed the chopped pieces of goat meat. The herbs and spices that had taken him three months to track down, the uziza seeds had taken him into the heart of Granby Market in Liverpool, his uchanwu leaves down a shady back alley in Manchester, and yesterday, among other food items, the finest goat meat from a Sierra Leonean Butcher in Birmingham. That had taken some time, so much he missed the last train and when the police found him shivering outside the locked up station, so cold he couldn’t answer loudly enough the pink-faced big copper who yelled in his face, “What’s your name sir?” spraying his face with spittle (吐沫)as he did so, leaving them with no choice but to search an exhausted, frozen old black man and finding him in possession of mysterious condiments (调味品)including a bag of dried bitter-leaf which could of course be mistaken for anything that resulted in him getting read his rights and charged with ...possession???

　　He lifted the lid of the bubbling soup, the room was filled with the rich and spicy scent of his culinary (烹饪的)effort. He served two bowls, taking the chipped one and placing the other opposite where Evelyn would have sat. He would tell her about his adventure, it was their anniversary and this was the perfect pepper soup to celebrate.

　　Ken Onyia, UK (Nigeria) Commonwealth Sport Short Story Prize

　　66. Why was Mr. Ezenwa taken to the prison for a night?

　　A. He was too weak to move.

　　B. He couldn’t find his way back home.

　　C. He then had nowhere else to go.

　　D. He was suspected of possessing drugs.

　　67. When Mr. Ezenwa was to leave the prison, •

　　A. his thumb print was taken immediately

　　B. the policeman was confused about what he had

　　C. a social worker was assigned to drive him back home

　　D. the policeman was so kind as not to damage his belongings

　　68. What did Mr. Ezenwa do for his wedding anniversary?