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
2.A.naughty B.alive C.asleep D.dead
3.A.kidney B.heart C.lung D.liver
4.A.tried B.attempted C.managed D.failed
5.A.where B.what C.how D.which
6.A.strong B.weak C.healthy D.energetic
7.A.medicine B.device C.treatment D.doctor
8.A.healthy B.naughty C.weak D.sick
9.A.refuse B.receive C.return D.reject
10.A.often B.far C.soon D.long
11.A.when B.so C.because D.but
12.A.over B.beyond C.above D.on
13.A.attacked B.attached C.attracted D.affected
14.A.to B.from C.on D.over
15.A.careful B.hateful C.thankful D.beautiful
答案:ABBC BBABD CABBC
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