14．French surgeons have performed what they said on Wednesday was the world's first partial face transplant（移植）---giving a new nose，chin and lips to a woman attacked by a dog．
Specialists from two French hospitals carried out the operation on a 38-year-old woman on Sunday in the northern city of Amiens by taking the face from a brain-dead woman，who had hanged herself just hours before the operation．Her family agreed on the operation．
"The patient is in an excellent state and the transplant looks normal，"the hospitals said in a brief statement after waiting three days to announce the pioneering surgery．
The woman had been left without a nose and lips after the dog attacked her last May，and was unable to talk or chew properly．Such injuries are"extremely difficult，if not impossible"to repair using normal surgical techniques，the statement said．
The statement did not say what the woman would look like when she had fully recovered，but medical experts said she was unlikely to resemble the woman who had been the source of her new face．
The operation was led by Jean-Michel Dubernard，a specialist from a hospital in Lyon who has also carried out hand transplants．
Skin transplants have long been used to treat burns and other injuries，but operations around the mouth and nose have been considered very difficult because of the area's high sensitivity（敏感） to foreign tissue．
Teams in France，the United States and Britain had been developing techniques to make face transplants a reality
There was a short-term risk for the patient if blood vessels became blocked，a medium-term danger of her body rejecting the new skin and a long-term possibility that the drugs used could cause cancers．
Experts say that although such medical advances should be celebrated，the transplant had thrown up moral（道德的）and ethical（伦理的）issues．Little is known about the psychological effect of the transplant．
28．The best title for the passage would beA．
A．French Woman has First Partial Face Transplant
B．First Face Transplant Opens Debate
C．Risks and Ethical Problems of a Face Transplant
D．A Complete Face Transplant of a French Woman
29．Why did the woman need such an operation？A
A．Her face had been bitten by a dog B．Her face had been burnt in a fire．
C．She was born especially ugly D．She wanted to test such an operation．
30．The underlined word"resemble"meansD．
A．to remember forever B．to recognize immediately
C．to set as an example D．to present similarity or likeness to
31．What can we learn about the operation？B
A．The woman had used the dead woman's whole face．
B．There has arisen（引起） a debate about the operation．
C．The woman will suffer from psychological damage soon．
D．Such transplants have been performed by doctors．
32．Which of the following is NOT one of the risks of the operation？C
A．Block of blood vessels．B．Organ rejection
C．Heart damage．D．Side effect of the drugs．
分析 本文属于说明文阅读，作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了法国首次部分面部移植手术成功，移植虽然是巨大进步，但存在道德争议以及巨大风险．
解答 28．A．主旨大意题．根据第一段French surgeons have performed what they said on Wednesday was the world's first partial face transplant可知主要讲了法国首次部分面部移植成功；故选A．
29．A．细节理解题．根据第一段giving a new nose，chin and lips to a woman attacked by a dog可知她的脸被狗咬了失去了鼻子需要移植；故选A．
30．D．词义猜测题．根据文章but medical experts said she was unlikely to resemble the woman who had been the source of her new face她不太可能与这位新面孔的来源相似；可知意为相似；故选D．
31．B．推理判断题．根据最后一段Experts say that although such medical advances should be celebrated，the transplant had thrown up moral（道德的）and ethical（伦理的）issues可知出现了一个关于手术的争论；故选B．
32．C．细节理解题．根据文章手术存在的风险有血管阻断，器官排斥和药物的副作用；故选C．
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力，做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句，和题干进行比较，再做出正确的选择．在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实，要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断．
