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Unit 4 Cyberspace Period One Warm-up and Lesson 1　Tomorrows World时间：40分钟 .完形填空 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。 Is the common nature of cancer worldwide purely a man-made phenomenon? That is what some researchers now suggest. Cancer is a __1__ cause of death worldwide these days, however, scientists have only found one __2__ of the disease in investigations of hundreds of Egyptian mummies(木乃伊), __3__ Rosalie David of the University of Manchester in England said in a statement. “This might be related to the wide __4__of carcinogens(致癌物)in modern societies，” write Rosalie David and Michael Zimmermann of Villanova University, Pennsylvania. Cancers are “limited to societies that are affected by __5__ lifestyle issues, such as tobacco use and pollution __6__ industrialization”． In a review of published __7__of tens of thousands of ancient skeletons(骷髅)and hundreds of mummies, David and Zimmermann found only a handful of cases of cancer. One recent finding of cancer was __8__ as the first ever discovered in a mummy. They also examined __9__texts and literature from Egypt and Greece, and said that theres little __10__ that cancer was a common disease. A quote from David __11__ by the University of Manchester says：“There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. So it has to be a __12__ disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle.” Still, other specialists in cancer and in human fossils strongly __13__ this view.“Cancer is very rare in modern societies in humans under age 30，” said oncologist John Glaspy at UCLAs Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. “In ancient times, people rarely __14__ much older than that. So cancer was __15__. The ‘problem’ of modern societies is having people live much older.” 【解题导语】 本文主要讲述了科学家对癌症的新发现，认为癌症不是自然就有的，而是人为造成的，但有些科学家对这一观点持怀疑态度。 【重点词语】 in investigations of 在……的调查当中 diet and lifestyle饮食习惯和生活方式 human fossils人类化石 1．A．possible　　　　　 　B．leading C．future D．popular 答案　B　[文章是在讲述科学家的新发现，cancer是现代社会一个