What would be the best title for the passage? A. The Greatest killer in the West B. Heart Disease:Treat or Prevent C. Modern Technollgy and Heart Surgery D. Heart Surgery:Advantages and Disadvantages 答案 56. C 57. C 58. A 59. B 第30题(2002年普通高等学校夏季招生考试英语上海卷) July 1994 Jupiter.the largest planet in our solar system.was struck by 21 pieces of a comet. When the fragmentslanded in the southern part of the giant planet.the explosions were watched by scientists here on earth. But what if our own planet was hit by a comet? The year is 2094. It has been announced that a comet is heading towards the Earth. Most of it will miss our planet.but two fragments will probably hit the southern part of the Earth. The news has caused panic. On 17 July.a fragment four kilometers wide enters the Earth’s atmosphere with a huge explosion. About half of the fragment is destroyed. But the major part survives and hits the South Atlantic at 200 times the speed of sound. The sea boils and an enormous wave is created and spreads. The wall of water rushes towards southern Africa at 800 kilometres an hour. Cities on the African coast are totally destroyed and millions of people are drowned. The wave moves into the Indian Ocean and heads towards Asia. Millions of people are already dead in the southern part of the Earth.but the north won’t escape for long. Tons of broken pieces are thrown into the atmosphere by the explosions. As the sun is hidden by clouds of dust.temperatures around the world fall to almost zero. Crops are ruined. Wars break out as countries fight for food. A year later civilization has collapsed. No more than 10 million people have survived. Could it really happen? In fact.it has already happened more than once in the history of the Earth. The dinosaurswere on the Earth for over 160 million years. Then 65 million years ago they suddenly disappeared. Many scientists believe that the Earth was hit by a space fragment. The dinosaurs couldn’t survive in the cold climate that followed and they became extinct. Will we meet the same end? 查看更多

 

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One of the greatest killers in the Western world is heart disease, The death rate (率) from the disease has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past thirty years. Today in Britain, for example, about four hundred people a day die of heart disease. Medical experts know that people can reduce their chances of getting heart disease by exercising regularly, by not smoking, by changing their diets, and by paying more attention to reducing stress(压力)in their work.

However, Western health-care systems are still not paying enough attention to the prevention of the disease. There is a need for more programs to educate the public about the causes and prevention of heart disease. Instead of supporting such programs, however, the U. S. health-care system is spending large sums of money on the surgical (外科的) treatment of the disease after it develops. This emphasis(强调)on treatment clearly has something to do with the technological advances that have taken place in the past ten to fifteen years. In this time, modern technology has enabled doctors to develop new surgical techniques. Many operations that were considered impossible of too risky(有风险的)a few years ago are now performed every day in U. S. hospitals. The result has been a huge increase in heart surgery.

Although there is no doubt that heart surgery can help a large number of people, some people point out that the emphasis on the surgical treatment of the disease has three clear disadvantages. First, it attracts interest and money away from the question of prevention. Second, it causes the costs of general hospital care to rice. After hospitals buy the expensive equipment that is necessary for modern heart surgery, they must try to recover the money they have spent. To do this, they raise costs for all their patients, not just those patients whose treatment requires the equipment. The third patients, not just those patients whose treatment requires the equipment. The third disadvantage is that doctors are encouraged to perform surgery-even on patients for whom an operation is unnecessary-because the equipment and expert skills are there. A government office recently stated that major heart surgery, for example, only 15 percent of patients improved their conditions after the surgery. However, more than 100,000 of these operations are performed in the United States every year.

1. What effect has modern technology had on medicine?

A. It has reduced the costs of medical treatment.

B. It has helped save the lives of most patients.

C. It has encouraged doctors to do more heart surgeries.

D.  It has helped educate people about the prevention of heart disease.

2. “To do this”(in Paragraph 3) means_______.

A. to help patients recover

B. to increase the number of heart surgeries

C. to get back the money spent on the equipment

D. to buy new equipment for the treatment of heart disease

3. The author would agree that ________.

A. more money should be spent on the prevention of heart disease

B. heart surgery has helped most patients improve their conditions

C. modern technology has made heart surgery more risky than before

D. the public have known a great deal about the causes of heart disease

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. The Greatest Killer in the West

B. Heart Disease: Treat or Prevent

C. Modern Technology and Heart Surgery

D. Heart Surgery: Advantages and Disadvantages

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     One of the greatest killers in the Western world in heart disease. The death rate (率) from the disease
has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past thirty years. Today in Britain, for example, about
four hundred people a day die of heart disease. Mdical experts know that people can reduce their chances
of getting heart disease by exercising regularly, by not smoking, by changing their diets, and by paying
more attention to reducing stress (压力) in their work.
     However, Western health-care systems are still not paying enough attention to the prevention of the
disease. There is a need for more programs to educate the public about the causes and prevention of heart
disease. Instead of supporting such programs,however, the U.S. health-care system is spending large sums
of money on the surgical (外科的) treatment of the disease after it develops. This emphasis (强调) on
treatment clearly has something to do with the technological advances that have taken place in the past ten
to fifteen years. In this time,modern technology has enabled doctors to develop new surgical techniques.
Many operations that were considered impossible or too risky (有风险的) a few years ago are now
performed every day in U.S.hospitals. The result had been a huge increase in heart surgery.
     Although there is no doubt that heart surgery can help a large number of people, some people point out
that the emphasis on the surgical treatment of the disease has three clear disadvantages. First, it attracts
interest and money away from the question of prevention.Second, it causes the costs of general hospital
care to rise. After hospitals buy the expensive equipment that is necessary for modern heart surgery, they
must try to recover the money they have spent.  To do this, they raise costs for all their patients, not just
those patients whose treatment requires the equipment. The third disadvantage is that doctors are
encouraged to perform surgery-even on patients for whom an operation is unnecessary-because the
equipment and expert skills are there. A government office recently stated that major heart surgery was
often performed even though its chances of success were low. In one type of heart surgery, for example,
only 15 percent of patients improved their conditions after the surgery. However,more than 100,000 of these
operations are performed in the United States every year.
1. What effect has modern technology had on medicine?
A. It has reduced the costs of medical treatment.
B. It has helped save the lives of most patients
C. It has encouraged doctors to do more heart surgeries
D. It has helped educate people about the prevention of heart disease
2. "To do this" (in Paragraph 3)means _____.
A. to help patients recover
B. to increase the number of heart surgeries
C. to get back the money spent on the equipment
D. to buy new equipment for the treatment to heart disease
3. The author would agree that _____.
A. more money should be spent on the prevention of heart disease
B. heart surgery has helped most patients improve their conditions
C. modern technology has made heart surgery more risky than before
D. the public have known a great deal about the causes of heart disease
4. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Greatest Killer in the West
B. Heart Disease: Treat or Prevent
C. Modern Technology and Heart Surgery
D. Heart Surgery:Advantages and Disadvantages

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阅读理解

  One of the greatest killers in the Western world is heart disease. The death rate(率) from the disease has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past thirty years. Today in Britain, for example, about four hundred people a day die of heart disease. Medical experts know that people can reduce their chances of getting heart disease by exercising regularly, by not smoking, by changing their diets, and by paying more attention to reducing stress(压力) in their work.

  However, Western health-care systems are still not paying enough attention to the prevention of the disease. There is a need for more programs to educate the public about the causes and prevention of heart disease. Instead of supporting such programs, however, the US healthcase system is spending large sums of money on the surgical(外科的) treatment of the disease after it develops. This emphasis(强调) on treatment clearly has something to do with the technological advances that have taken place in the past ten to fifteen years. In this time, modern technology has enabled doctors to develop new surgical techniques. Many operations that were considered impossible or too risky(有风险的) a few years ago are now performed every day in US hospitals. The result has been a huge increase in heart surgery.

  Although there is no doubt that heart surgery can help a large number of people, some people point out that the emphasis on the surgical treatment of the disease has three clear disadvantages. First, it attracts interest and money away from the question of prevention. Second, it causes the costs of general hospital care to rise. After hospitals buy the expensive equipment that is necessary for modern heart surgery, they must try to recover the money they have spent. To do this, they raise costs for all their patients, not just those patients whose treatment requires the equipment. The third disadvantage is that doctors are encouraged to perform surgery-even on patients for whom an operation is unnecessary-because the equipment and expert skills are there. A government office recently stated that major heart surgery was often performed even though its chances of success were low. In one type of heart surgery, for example, only 15 percent of patients improved their conditions after the surgery. However, more than 100,000 of these operations are performed in the United States every year.

1.What effect has modern technology had on medicine?

[  ]

A.It has reduced the costs of medical treatment.

B.It has helped save the lives of most patients.

C.It has encouraged doctors to do more heart surgeries.

D.It has helped educate people about the prevention of heart disease.

2.“To do this” (in Paragraph 3) means ________.

[  ]

A.to help patients recover

B.to increase the number of heart surgeries

C.to get back the money spent on the equipment

D.to buy new equipment for the treatment of heart disease

3.The author would agree that ________.

[  ]

A.more money should be spent on the prevention of heart disease

B.heart surgery has helped most patients improve their conditions

C.modern technology has made heart surgery more risky than before

D.the public have known a great deal about the causes of heart disease

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

[  ]

A.The Greatest Killer in the West

B.Heart Disease, Treat or Prevent

C.Modern Technology and Heart Surgery

D.Heart Surgery; Advantages and Disadvantages

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阅读理解

  One of the greatest killers in the Western world is heart disease. The death rate from the disease has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past thirty years. Today in Britain, for example, about four hundred people a day die of heart disease. Medical experts know that people can reduce their chances of getting heart disease by exercising reducing stress in their work.

  However, Western health-care systems are still not paying enough attention to the prevention of the disease. There is a need for more programs to educate the public about the causes and prevention of heart disease. Instead of supporting such programs, however, the U. S. health-care system is spending large sums of money on the surgical(外科的) treatment of the disease after it develops. This emphasis on the treatment clearly has something to do with the technological advances that have taken place in the past ten to fifteen years. In this time, modern technology has enabled doctors to develop new surgical techniques. Many operations that were considered impossible or too risky a few years ago are now performed every day in U. S. hospitals. The result has been a huge increase in heart surgery.

  Although there is no doubt that heart surgery can help a large number of people, some people point out that the emphasis on the surgical treatment of the disease has three clear disadvantages: First, it attracts interest and money away from the question of prevention. Second, it causes the costs of general care to rise. After hospitals buy the expensive equipment that is necessary for modern heart surgery, they must try to recover the money they have spent. To do this, they raise for all their patients, not just those patients whose treatment requires the equipment. The third disadvantage is that doctors are encouraged to perform surgery even on patients for whom an operation is unnecessary because the equipment and expert skills are there. A government office recently stated that major heart surgery was often performed even though its chances of success were low. In one type of heart surgery, for example, only 15 percent of patients improved their conditions after the surgery. However, more than 100000 of these operations are performed in the United States every year.

1.What effect has modern technology had on medicine?

[  ]

A.It has reduced the costs of medical treatment.

B.It has helped save the lives of most patients.

C.It has encouraged doctors to do more heart surgery.

D.It has helped educate people about the prevention of heart disease.

2.The underlined part “To do this”(in Paragraph 3) refers to ________.

[  ]

A.to help patients recover

B.to increase the number of heart surgery

C.to get back the money spent on the equipment

D.to buy new equipment for the treatment of heart disease

3.The author would agree that ________.

[  ]

A.more money should be spent on the prevention of heart disease

B.heart surgery has helped most patients improve their conditions

C.modern technology has made heart surgery more risky than before

D.the public have known a great deal about the causes of heart disease

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

[  ]

A.The Greatest Killer in the West

B.Heart Disease: Treat or Prevent?

C.Modern Technology and Heart Surgery

D.Heart Surgery: Advantages and Disadvantages

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  One of the greatest killers in the Western world is heart dis— ease.The death rate(率)from the disease has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past thirty years.Today in Britain,for example,about four hundred people a day die ofheart disease.Medical experts know that people can reduce their chances of get ting heart disease by exercising regularly,by not smoking,by changing their diets,and by paying more attention to reducing stress(压力)in their work.

  However,Western health-care systems are still not paying enough attention to the prevention of the disease.There is a need for more programs to educate the public about the causes and prevention of heart disease,lntead of supporting such programs,however,the US health-care system is spending large sums of money on the surgical(外科的)treatment of the disease after it develops.This emphasis(强调)ontreatment clearly has something to do with the technological advances that have taken place in the past ten to fifteen years.In this time,modern technology has enabled doctors to develop new surgical techniques.Many operations that were considered impossible or too risky(有风险的)a few years ago are now performed every day in us hospitals.The result has been a huge increase in heart surgery.

  Although there is on doubt that heart surgery can help a large number of people,some people point out that the emphasis on the surgical treatment of the disease has three clear disadvan— tages.First.it attracts interest and money away from the question of prevention.Second,it causes the costs of general hospital care to rise.After hospitals buy the expensive equipment that is nec-essary for modern heart surgery,theymust try to recover the money they have spent.To do this,they raise costs for all their patients,not just those patients whose treatment requires the equipment.The third disadvantage is that doctors are encouraged to perform surgery-even on patients for whom an operation is unnecessary-because the equipment and expert skills are there.A government office recently stated that major heart surgery was often performed even though its chances of success were low.In one type of heart surgery,for example,only 15 percent of patients improved their conditions after the surgery.However,more than 100,000.of these operations are performed in the United States every year.

(1)

What effect has modern technology had on medicine?

[  ]

A.

It has reduced the costs of medical treatment.

B.

It has helped save the lives of most patients.

C.

It has encouraged doctors to do more heart surgeries.

D.

It has helped educate people about the prevention of heart disease.

(2)

“To do this”(in Paragraph 3)means ________

[  ]

A.

to help patients recover

B.

to increase the number of heart surgeries

C.

to get back the money spent on the equipment

D.

to buy new equipment for the treatment of heart disease

(3)

The author would agree that ________

[  ]

A.

more money should be spent on the prevention of heart disease

B.

heart surgery has helped most patients improve their con-ditions

C.

modern technology has made heart surgery more risky than before

D.

the public have known a great deal about the causes of heart disease

(4)

What would be the best title for the passage?

[  ]

A.

The Greatest Killer in the West

B.

Heart Disease:Treat or Prevent

C.

Modern Technology and Heart Surgery

D.

Heart Surgery:Advantages and Disadvantages

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