Just seven years ago,the Jarvik-7 artificial(人造的)heart was being cheered as the model of human creativeness. The sight of Barney Clark―alive and conscious after trading his diseased heart for a metal-and-plastic pump^convinced the press,the public and many doctors that the future had arrived. It hadn't. After monitoring production of the Jarvik-7, and reviewing its effects on the 150 or so patients (most of whom got the device as a temporary measure ) ,the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration concluded that the machine was doing more to endanger lives than to save them. Last week the agency cancelled its earlier approval, effectively banning the device.
The recall may hurt Symbion Inc.,maker of the Jarvik-7,but it won' t end the request for an artificial heart. One problem with the banned model is that the tubes connecting it to an external power source created a passage for infection. Inventors are now working on new devices that would be fully placed,along with a tiny power pack,in the patient's chest. The first sample products aren't expected for another 10 or 20 years. But some people are already worrying whether they'll work―and that America's overextended (开支过大的)health-care programs will lose a precious $2.5 billion to $ 5 billion a year providing them for a relatively few dying patients. If such expenditures(开支)cut into funding for more basic care,the net effect could actually be a decline in the nation,s health.
( ) 8. According to the passage,the Jarvik-7 artificial proved to be .
A. a good life-saver
B. a technical wonder
C. an effective means to treat heart disease
D. a technical failure
( ) 9. From the passage we know that Symbion Inc. .
A. has been banned by the government from producing artificial hearts
B. will review the effects of artificial hearts before designing new models
C. may continue to work on new models
D. can make new models of artificial hearts available on the market in 10 to 20 years ( ) 10. The new models of artificial hearts are expected .
A. to have a working life of 10 or 20 years
B. to be set fully in the patient' s chest
C. to be equipped with an external power source
D. to create a new passage for infection
( ) 11. The underlined word "them" refers to ―.
A. doctors who treat heart diseases B. makers of artificial hearts
C. America's health-care programs D. new models of artificial hearts
( ) 12. Some people feel that .
A. artificial hearts are seldom effective
B. the country is not spending enough money on artificial hearts
C. the country should not spend so much money on artificial hearts
D. America's health-care programs are not doing enough for the nation's health
8. D逻辑推理题。从第一段"Food and Drug Adminis?tration concluded that the machine was doing more to endanger lives than to save them",推断出现在大家认为Jarvik-7更多的是在威胁人的生命,而不是像以前认为的可以挽救生命。
9.C逻辑推理题。第二段提到,虽然人造心脏有很多弊端,但人们对它的需求却仍然存在。从"Inventors are now working on new devices that would be fully placed, along with a tiny power pack,in the patient's chest"中看出,它的发明者在继续研究新的人造心脏。
10. B逻辑推理题。第二段提到"Inventors are now working on new devices that would be fully placed, along with a tiny power pack,in the patient' s chest." 即现在研究人员正在研发一种心脏,它有一个小的能量包,能完全放到人的胸腔内。
11. D细节理解题。第二段最后两句提到,现在有人开始担忧这种新型的人造心脏是否真的有效。而且花这么多钱,仅仅是为少数人提供这种设备,是否值得呢?所以看出them指代的是上文中提到的正在研发的新型人造心脏。
12. C逻辑推理题,从文章最后两句话可以看出
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