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? ??Part?I?Reading?Comprehension?(30%)? ??Directions:?There?are?three?passages?in?this?part.?Each?passage?is??followed?by?some?questions?or?unfinished?statements.?For?each?of?them?there??are?four?choices?marked?A,?B,?C?and?D.?You?should?decide?on?the?best?choice??and?blacken?the?corresponding?letter?on?the?Answer?Sheet。???Passage?1? ??Questions?I?to?5?are?based?on?the?following?passage:? ??Spending?50?minutes?with?a?cell?phone?close?to?your?ear?is?enough?to??change?brain?cell?activity?in?the?part?of?the?brain?closest?to?the?antenna(?天线).?But?whether?that?causes?any?harm?is?not?clear,?scientists?at?the??National?Institute?of?Health?said?at?a?conference?last?month,?adding?that??the?study?will?not?likely?settle?concerns?of?a?link?between?cell?phones?and??brain?cancer.?“What?we?showed?is?glucose?(葡萄糖)?metabolism(代谢)(a?sign??of?brain?activity)?increases?in?the?brain?in?people?who?were?exposed?to?a??cell?phone?in?the?area?closest?to?the?antenna,”?said?Dr.?Nora?Volkow?of?the??NIH,?whose?study?was?published?in?the?Journal?of?the?American?Medical??Association.?(76)?The?study?was?meant?to?examine?how?the?brain?reacts?to??electromagnetic?fields?caused?by?wireless?phone?signals。? ??Volkow?said?she?was?surprised?that?the?weak?electromagnetic?radiation(电?磁辐射)?from?cell?phones?could?affect?brain?activity,?but?she?said?the??findings?do?not?shed?any?light?on?whether?cell?phones?cause?cancer.?“This??study?does?not?in?any?way?indicate?that.?What?the?study?does?is?to?show?the??human?brain?is?sensitive?to?electromagnetic?radiation?from?cell?phone??exposures。”?Use?of?the?devices?has?increased?dramatically?since?they?were??introduced?in?the?early?1980s,?with?about?5?billion?cell?phones?now?in?use??worldwide。? ??Some?studies?have?linked?cell?phone?exposure?to?an?increased?risk?of??brain?cancers,?but?a?large?study?bu?the?World?Health?Organization?did?not??offer?a?clear?answer?to?this.?Volkow’s?team?studied?47?people?who?had?their??brain?examined?while?a?cell?phone?was?turned?on?for?50?minut