A New Heart

LONDON: A pioneering new plastic heart is (1) doctors to keep (2) seriously ill children while they wait for (3) transplants.

Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London have (4) to stabilize three young children by using the Berlin Heart, a device (5)keeps the blood pumping around the body when the child’s own organ is too (6)to work properly.

Jodie Lansdale told how her daughter, Claudia, was helped by the (7) as she waited for a heart to be donated. Claudia had been a (8)child, but at 13 months old she was diagnosed as having dilated （加寬的）cardiomyopathy. （心肌癥）

Claudia was put on different medicines but started to deteriorate. Her parents were told she might need to go to Great Ormond Street Hospital and (9) intensive care. “But we didn’t know how (10)we would have to wait until a donor （捐贈人）organ became available (11)very few people who have lost a child decide to donate their child’s heart.”

Surgeon Carin Van Doom told the parents that there was a new device which might help Claudia, but that she would be only the second person to go on it.

In November, Claudia underwent a six-hour operation when the pump was fitted, taking (12) the function of her heart’s left chamber (心室). The device was (13) by tubes to the heart but remained outside the body. “The change was astonishing,” said Lansdale.

“Claudia went (14) being very weak to being able to sit up and move around. It was marvelous to see the change.”

A child’s heart became available 27 days after the operation and Claudia received a transplant. “We are just so (15) to the donor’s family for allowing our daughter to live,” said Lansdale.

1.A.enabling B.preventing C.troubling D.bothering

正確答案:A

解析:一個先進的塑料心臟使醫生能夠在患重病的兒童等待心臟移植期間保證他們的生存。enable sb to do, 使（某人）能夠（做某事）。因此A正確。B阻止；C使困難；D困擾。

3.A.naughty B.alive C.asleep D.dead

正確答案:B

解析:句意同上。keep alive保持…活著。B正確。A淘氣；C睡眠；D死亡。

4.A.kidney B.heart C.lung D.liver

正確答案:B

解析:句意同上。縱觀全文不難看出，通篇都是關于心臟移植的，因此此處應為heart心臟。

5.A.tried B.attempted C.managed D.failed

正確答案:C

解析:醫生已經成功的利用“柏林心臟”穩定住了三個兒童的病情。A努力；B試圖；C設法（并成功）；D失敗。

5.A.where B.what C.how D.which

正確答案:D

解析:定語從句。由which引導。

6.A.strong B.weak C.healthy D.energetic

正確答案:B

解析:too weak to work properly太弱而不能正常工作。

7.A.medicine B.device C.treatment D.doctor

正確答案:B

解析:Jodie Lansdale講述了她的女兒是如何在這個設備的幫助下等候心臟捐獻的。文中提到的new heart其實是一種設備，而不是藥物或療法。

8.A.healthy B.naughty C.weak D.sick

正確答案:A

解析:轉折句，后面說她被診斷患有心臟病，由此推斷前面應該說她之前是一個健康的孩子，因此A正確。B淘氣；C虛弱；D有病。

9.A.refuse B.receive C.return D.reject

正確答案:B

解析:receive intensive care接收特別護理，因此B正確。A拒絕；C返還；D拒絕。

10.A.often B.far C.soon D.long

正確答案:D

解析:how long多長時間是與后面wait等待正確的搭配。ABC均不合適。

11.A.when B.so C.because D.but

正確答案:C

解析:因果關系，前面說不知道要等多久才會有器官捐贈，是因為很少有人會決定捐獻他們死去的孩子的心臟。因此C正確。

12.A.over B.beyond C.above D.on

正確答案:A

解析:起搏器接管左心室的功能。A接管正確。BCD意思不正確。

13.A.attacked B.attached C.attracted D.affected

正確答案:B

解析:這個設備被通過導管連在心臟上，但是被放在身體外面。be attached to連接，因此B正確。A攻擊；C吸引；D影響。

14.A.to B.from C.on D.over

正確答案:B

解析:句意判斷。Claudia從非常虛弱變的能夠坐起來并能走動。from… to…從…到…

15.A.careful B.hateful C.thankful D.beautiful

正確答案:C

解析:我們非常感謝捐贈器官的家庭讓我們的女兒能夠活下去。從句意判斷，此處應該是C感謝的。A仔細的；B憎恨的；D漂亮的。

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