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广西柳江县2016高考英语(二轮)阅读理解摸底练习（7）及答案 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 【2014高考英语综合能力测试题】 Michael DeBakey performed more than sixty thousand operations during his long career as a heart surgeon. His patients included American presidents John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. They also included Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the Shah of Iran. Doctor DeBakey died on July 11, 2008 in Houston, Texas, two months short of his one hundredth birthday. As a medical student, he invented the roller pump in 1931. Years later it was used for blood transfusions during heart operations. The roller pump became a major part of the heart-lung machine. The machine pumps oxygen-rich blood to the brain and other organs so that doctors can operate on the heart. Michael DeBakey was a pioneer of open-heart surgery, who had saved countless lives. Open-heart surgery means that the chest is open and surgery is performed on the heart. Doctors may or may not open the heart itself as well. Michael DeBakey was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on September 7, 1908. His parents were Lebanese immigrants. When he was a child, his mother taught him to sew. Later he sewed polyester tubes (多元酯管) for patients to perform heart bypass operations(搭桥手术).He developed a way to replace or repair .a blood vessel with Dacron, a man-made material and he continued to improve it in the process. Today this technology is used around the world. He was also a pioneer in artificial hearts, heart transplants and recording surgery on film. He brought a revolution to medicine in the 1950s and 1960s. During World War II, he helped develop the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. Michael DeBakey earned his medical degree in 1932 from Tulane University in New Orleans. For years he led the Baylor College of Medicine in, Houston. He joined the college in 1948 when the school was still part of Baylor University. He became president of the medical college in 1969. Over the years, he received many awards. In Apr