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【题目】 Imagine having an ear made out of an apple. It seems like a crazy idea from a horror movie. But it could happen in the near future.

Canadian biophysicist, Andrew Pelling used an apple to grow a human ear. He thinks fruit and vegetables can be used to cheaply repair human body parts in the future.

Scientists have been trying to grow organs( 器官) in labs to replace our old ones. But it is a hard Job. For example, liver cells( 肝细胞)can grow in a lab, but the cells still need things like blood vessels( 血管) to actually work. These things have to grow inside a scaffold(支架) In the past, scientists have used manmade materials, animal parts and even dead people as scaffolds. But that has proved to be difficult and expensive.

Pelling and his team, however, found the apple to be a cheap and easy to use scaffold.

They first out an apple into the shape of an ear. Then they used a special way to take out the apple’s cells and make it a scaffold. The team then added human cells to the apple and watched it grow

You can implant these scaffolds into the body, and the body will send in cells and a blood supply and actually keep these things alive, “Pelling said during a Ted Talk speech.

The team put the apple scaffold inside a living mouse and the mouse’s cells slowly took over the pieces of apple.

Now Pelling is thinking of other fruit, plants or vegetables to use,

He says that the shape of flower petals could be perfect for repairing skin. And asparagus(芦苇) could fix a broken spine(脊柱).

Now, Pelling and his team are trying hard to put these crazy ideas into reality

【1】Pelling’s idea of manmade ear seems crazy because he used ________ as scaffolds.

A.animal partsB.dead people

C.manmade materialsD.ordinary apples

【2】The underlined word “implant” in Paragraph 7 probably means ________.

A.pickB.putC.produceD.protect

【3】Which is the right order of making an ear out of an apple according to the passage

a. Put the apple scaffold inside a mouse.

b. Add human cells to the apple scaffold.

c. Cut an apple into the shape of an ear.

d. Make the apple ear a scaffold.

e. Take out the apple’s cells in a special way.

A.abcdeB.bedaeC.cedbaD.cdaeb

【4】From the last three paragraphs, we can infer that Pelling will experiment with other fruit, plants or vegetables ________.

A.to make human earsB.to repair burnt skin

C.to fix a broken spineD.to make human body parts

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】C

【4】D

【解析】

短文大意：本文是新闻类阅读，介绍了加拿大生物物理学家安德鲁·佩林计划用苹果来种植耳朵的实验，他甚至设想用水果、蔬菜来制造其他人体器官。

【1】考查细节理解。根据开头“Imagine having an ear made out of an apple. It seems like a crazy idea from a horror movie想象一个苹果做成的耳朵。这似乎是恐怖电影里的疯狂想法”，可知是因为他使用普通的苹果作为支架，故选D。

【2】考查词义理解。pick捡；put放；produce生产；protect保护。根据后文的举例“The team put the apple scaffold inside a living mouse研究小组将苹果支架植入一只活老鼠体内”，可知本句“implant”意思是“放置put”，故选B。

【3】考查细节排序。a. 把苹果支架放在老鼠体内。b. 将人类细胞添加到苹果支架上。c. 把苹果切成耳朵的形状。d. 把苹果穗做成支架。e. 用特殊的方法取出苹果细胞。根据文章第六段和第八段：先把苹果切成耳朵的形状；再用特殊的方式取出苹果的细胞；接着把切成耳朵的苹果做成器官；然后把人体细胞加人到苹果支架；最后把苹果耳朵植入小白鼠体内；可知c-e-d-b-a顺序正确，故选C。

【4】考查推理判断。根据第二段第二句“He thinks fruit and vegetables can be used to cheaply repair human body parts in the future. 他认为，未来可以用水果和蔬菜来廉价修复人体器官”和倒数第二段“He says that the shape of flower petals could be perfect for repairing skin. And asparagus could fix a broken spine花瓣的形状可以完美地修复皮肤。芦笋可以修复断了的脊椎”，可知他想用水果蔬菜来造人体器官，to make human body parts（制作人体器官）符合题意，故选D。