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【題目】 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( 肝細胞)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(蘆葦) 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：本文是新聞類閱讀，介紹了加拿大生物物理學(xué)家安德魯·佩林計劃用蘋果來種植耳朵的實驗，他甚至設(shè)想用水果、蔬菜來制造其他人體器官。

【1】考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)開頭“Imagine having an ear made out of an apple. It seems like a crazy idea from a horror movie想象一個蘋果做成的耳朵。這似乎是恐怖電影里的瘋狂想法”，可知是因為他使用普通的蘋果作為支架，故選D。

【2】考查詞義理解。pick撿；put放；produce生產(chǎn)；protect保護。根據(jù)后文的舉例“The team put the apple scaffold inside a living mouse研究小組將蘋果支架植入一只活老鼠體內(nèi)”，可知本句“implant”意思是“放置put”，故選B。

【3】考查細節(jié)排序。a. 把蘋果支架放在老鼠體內(nèi)。b. 將人類細胞添加到蘋果支架上。c. 把蘋果切成耳朵的形狀。d. 把蘋果穗做成支架。e. 用特殊的方法取出蘋果細胞。根據(jù)文章第六段和第八段：先把蘋果切成耳朵的形狀；再用特殊的方式取出蘋果的細胞；接著把切成耳朵的蘋果做成器官；然后把人體細胞加人到蘋果支架；最后把蘋果耳朵植入小白鼠體內(nèi)；可知c-e-d-b-a順序正確，故選C。

【4】考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段第二句“He thinks fruit and vegetables can be used to cheaply repair human body parts in the future. 他認為，未來可以用水果和蔬菜來廉價修復(fù)人體器官”和倒數(shù)第二段“He says that the shape of flower petals could be perfect for repairing skin. And asparagus could fix a broken spine花瓣的形狀可以完美地修復(fù)皮膚。蘆筍可以修復(fù)斷了的脊椎”，可知他想用水果蔬菜來造人體器官，to make human body parts（制作人體器官）符合題意，故選D。