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2016

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第一周（

2

）

一、考纲必背单词

absurd, academic, accelerate, accommodation, accompany, accomplish, accountant, accumulate,

accuracy, acid

1.

People have digestive ________________ in the stomach.

2.

We have ________________ all we set out to do.

3.

Measures must be taken to ________________the rate of economic growth

.

4.

Children under 14 must be ________________ by an adult.

5. Universities have to provide student ________________ for first-year students.

6. An ________________ is someone whose job is to keep and check financial accounts,

calculate taxes etc.

.

7.

Between 1980 and 1987 the number of

________________

staff in British universities

declined by 12 percent

8. Economists can predict future inflation rates with a reasonable degree of

_____________.

9. By the late 1950s scientists had already ________________enough evidence to show a

clear link between smoking and cancer.

10.

It seems quite

________________

to expect anyone to drive for 3 hours just for a 20 minute

meeting.

二、阅读理解：

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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

sam

e?”

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.

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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.

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

，

< br>，

，

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, b

ad 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

n

eed,

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

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who yelled in his fac

e, “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?

A. He collected all sorts of valuables as presents.

B. He cooked native food as a surprise for his wife.

C. He prepared a special Nigerian pepper soup carefully.

D. He travelled a lot, attempting to get his wife back.

69. What words can be used to describe Mr. Ezenwa?

A. Hopeless and pessimistic.

B. Mysterious and troublesome.

C. Affectionate and persistent.

D. Energetic and sympathetic.

70. What theme does the author want to express through the story?

A. Racial prejudice.

B. Hard life of the elderly.

C. Struggle for freedom.

D. Preservation of tradition.

三、任务型阅读

Escape from FoMO

Here’s a test you might enjoy: rate these situations on a number scale, ranging from 1 for mild

discomfort to 7 for unbearable distress.

Situation 1: you

，

re visiting New York City and realize there

’

s no way you

’

ll be able to get to

all the exhibits, see all the recommended plays or take in even part of the

“

musts

”

. How do you

feel now? Something like 5?

Situation 2: you

，

re at dinner with friends, and you

’

ve all agreed to make it a strictly phone-free

evening. But your smartphone won

’

t stop beeping Twitter and text alerts. Something is obviously

up in your social network, but you can

’

t check. Even 7 wouldn

’t match the stress you’re feeling

now.

Welcome to FoMO (Fear of Missing Out), the latest mental disorder caused by social media

connections sharing updates that leaves individuals feeling that they are missing out on something

more

exciting,

important,

or

interesting

going

on

somewhere

else.

It

is

an

outcome

of

technological advancement and booming social information. According to a recent study, 56 per

cent of those who use social networks suffer this.

It is not uncommon that at night when you

’

ve sworn again to put the phone aside or turn off

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