1、第一篇 bringing Nanotechnology to Health Care for the poor1 :which of the following uses of nanotechnology is NOT mentioned in the passage?B:To proruce better and lighter building materials.2 How can quantum dots be used to confirm diseases?C: By linghtung up in the presence of a targeted molecule3How
2、can nanotechnology be used to make a drug more effective?A: By making a drug taeget the focus of a disease4 The following developing countries are doing very well scientific research on nanotechnology EXCEPT_.C;Lran5: Which of the following is the possible risk in using nano-materials mentioned in t
3、he passage?D: They may behave differently in the body and the environment.第二篇 Medical Journals 医学杂志1. The main readers of medical journals are? B. health professionals.2. Which of the following statements is NOT true?C. Most medical journals publish only online.3. How many major types of articles ar
4、e mentioned in the passage?A. Five.4. An article dealing with results from different studies on the same topic is called?B. a review article.5. Letters to the editor enable readers of a medical journal to express comments onC. articles published in that journal.第三篇 Cooking Oil Fumes Cause Tumor【厨房油烟
5、可致癌 】1. What a new tendency in lung cancer is concluded by the researchers?答案:D. Patients with lung cancer become younger, especially females. 2. Which of the following diseases is the most common among the local residents in Shanghai?B. Breast cancer.乳腺癌3. What symptoms may be complained of by most
6、 women with lung cancer after long term. Close contact with cooking oil fumes? A. Irritated eyes and throat。4. What was the local womens reaction when they learned that cooking oil fumes could lead to cancer: B.Surprised.惊奇的5. Which of the following has relatively little connection with womens lung
7、cancer? D. Personal health and physical condition.第四篇 Multivitamins Urged for All Pregnant Women1. How many babies are born with low birth weight in the developed countries every year according to WHO?C 2,000,000.2. A pill of multivitamins may contain all of the following substances EXCEPT D antivir
8、al substances. 3. Which of the following is NOT one of the effects of multivitamins mentioned in the passage.A To reduce the rate of babies born too early.4. What a role do lymphocytes play in the human body?B To raise the bodys immunity against infection.5. How many percent of babies were born with
9、 low birth weight to women who were notinfected with the AIDS virus and took the multivitamins according to a new study 答案:A Less than 8%.第五篇 U.S. Eats Too Much Salt1. Too much salt raises one s risk for? D all of the above.。2. How much salt do most American adults eat per day? B Closer to 3,500 mg.
10、 3. To improve their blood pressure, people should have a dietB rich in potassium and calcium.。4. The high-risk groups include thoseD. both A and B.5.Packaged, processed and restaurant foods are known to be C rich in salt. 富含盐第六篇 Pushbike Peril1. According to the passage, some engineers are trying t
11、o improve the handlebars because?B. they may kill children.2. In paragraph 2, the author mentions a study of serious abdominal injuries D. to tell us why Kristy Arbogast began the project. 3. Paragraph 3 mainly discusses? D . how serious injuries occur.5. The passage implies that A. it is not easy t
12、o persuade manufacturers to adopt the new design. 5. In which of the following ways the handgrip work? B.It reduces the dangerous forces in bicycle accidents.第七篇 Late-night Drinking1The author mentions “pick-me-up” to indicate that C. coffee is a stimulant. 2. Which of the following tells us how caf
13、feine affects sleep?C. Caffeine halves the bodys levels of sleep hormone.3. What does paragraph 3 mainly discuss? A. Different effects of caffeinated coffee and decaf on sleep. 4. What does the experiment mentioned in paragraph 4 prove? D. Caffeine drinkers produce less sleep hormone. 5. The author
14、of this passage probably agrees that? B. we should not drink coffee after supper. 第八篇 Eat Healthy【健康饮食】1. Parents in the United States tend to ask their children C. not to waste food 2. Why do American restaurants serve large portions? A. Because Americans associate quantity with value.3. What happe
15、ned in the 1970s?、 D. The American waistline started to expand. 4. What does the survey indicate? A. Many poor Americans want large portions.5. Which of the following is NOT true of working class Americans? C. They dont want to be healthy eaters.第九篇 U.S. to Start $3.2 Billion Child Health Study in J
16、anuary1. The aim of the study is to find new ways to Cprevent or treat illness. 2. Researchers will collect all the following EXCEPTD samples of air and water from hospitals.3. It is expected that through the study the nations health care costsA Will be lowered in the long run.4. The babies of the p
17、articipantsB for more than two decades.5. Which is NOT true of the people in the study? D Theyll be from all age groups. 第十篇 Cigars Instead?1. According to the report, smoking three or four cigars a dayD. greatly increases the risk of more than one cancer for smokers. 2. In the passage how many canc
18、ers are mentioned in relation to smoking cigars daily?B. Seven. 七种。3. What is the main idea of the article “Cigars: Health Effects and Trends” ? A. When it comes to cancer, cigars are not any safer than cigarettes. 4. What is the doctors advice to those cigar-smokers? A. To give it up completely 5.
19、In the context of this passage, “secondhand smoke” may mean D. being near cigar smokers when they are smoking. 第十一篇 Sleeplessness【失眠】1. The word “insomnia”in the first paragraph means A. having trouble falling asleep.2. How many possible causes of sleeplessness are mentioned in the second paragraph?
20、B. Six. 六种 .3. The expression “Second on the list” in the second paragraph means B. the second most important cause of sleeplessness.4. Concerning the use of sleeping pills, which of the following statements is true?D.Sleeping pills should be used in a very small amount5. Which of the following does
21、 not fit with sleep hygiene?A. Make a rule to go to bed at a specific time every day. 第十二篇 Common-cold Sense1. According to the essay, you may have a cold because B. the spread of rhinoviruses gets people infected. 2. The best way to keep yourself from getting colds is A. to keep yourself clean.3. C
22、hildren have more colds because B. they are not immune to many cold viruses. 4. When you are having a cold,C. it is certainly not the same kind of cold that you had last time. 5. When one is having a cold, he often has some symptoms EXCEPT D. having a stomachache. 第十三篇 Drug ReactionsA Major Cause of
23、 Death1. Researchers at the University of Toronto believe thatC. ADRs have caused many deaths in America over the past 30 years. 2. The investigators say that C. 6. 7% of all hospitalized patients in American experience ADRs each year on average. 3. An American research estimates that the total sum
24、of money spent in treating ADRs each year is as much asB. $ 4, 000, 000, 000. 40 亿4. The Canadian investigators think that? C. the ADR incidence figures from their research are perhaps too low. 5. According to Dr. David Bates, hospitals in America A. are not paying enough attention to possibilities
25、of ADR happenings.第十四篇 Dreams【梦】1. There are in general two opinions about what we experience in a dream: 我们在梦中的经历大致有两种。答案:C. one, dreams put new information into our memories, and two, dreams have real meanings in pictures different from our logical thinking. 一,梦放新信息在我们记忆中,二;梦有不同于我们逻辑思维图片的真正意义。2. A
26、ccording to this article, we 根据这篇文章,我们 答案:D. almost always see different “pictures” when we are dreaming.当我们做梦的时候几乎总是看到不同的画面。3. In your dreams, you 在你的梦里,你? 答案:C. seldom feel fear now and joy later.很少感觉喜悦后恐惧。4. This essay tells us that 这篇文章告诉我们?答案:B. people usually dream in an REM sleep.人们经常做梦在 REM
27、睡眠中。5. Based on what is discussed in this writing, an adult may have at most about _ of the time of his or her sleep dreaming. 基于本文写作的讨论,一个成年人最多有多少时间做梦在他的或者她的睡眠里。答案:C. 25%第十五篇 Warm People Likely to Keep Cold at Bay【乐观情绪助你远离感冒】1. According to a study author, when people with a positive emotional styl
28、e do get a cold, they may think 根据作者的研究,当一个有积极情绪的人患感冒的时候,他们可能认为? 答案: B that their illness is not so serious 他们的病情并不严重。2. People with a positive emotional style may have all of the following characteristics EXCEPT 一个有积极情绪的人可能有下列特征除了? 答案:B selfish 自私自利。3. Which of the following is NOT one of the chara
29、cteristics that people with a negative emotional style may have? 下列哪个不是一个消极的人的特征之一?答案:C Warm-blooded. 热情洋溢的。4. How did the researchers test their volunteers? 研究人员怎么测试他们的志愿者? 答案:A By giving everyone nasal drops containing either a cold virus or a particular flu virus.给大家含有感冒病毒或某种流感病毒的滴鼻剂。5. Which of
30、the following items is NOT included in the data that the researchers collected? 以下哪一项不包括在研究人员收集的数据?答案;D. Blood test. 血液测试。第十六篇 Eat to Live【为生存而食】1. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? 根据这篇文章下面哪一个的不真实的?答案:D We have to begin dieting since childhood. 我们必须开始节食从儿童食物开始。2. Why doe
31、s the author mention an elderly mouse in paragraph 2? 作者在第二段为什么提到一只老老鼠?答案:B To illustrate the effect of meager food on mice.举例说明节食对老鼠的影响结果。3. What can be inferred about completely normally fed mice mentioned in the passage? 在文中,全部常量喂养意味着什么?答案:D They are more likely to suffer from inflammation.他们更容易患
32、炎症。4. According to the author, which of the following most interested the researchers? 根据文章,研究人员对哪一项更感兴趣?答案:A The mice that started dieting in old age.老鼠在老年开始节食。5. According to the last two paragraphs, Spindler believes that 根据最后两段,斯潘德尔相信什么? 答案:C dieting is not a good method to give us health and long life. 我们健康长寿节食不是一个好办法。