2016静安区高中二模试题汇总以及解析讲义.docx

2016静安区高中二模试题汇总以及解析 2016静安区高中二模解析之十一选十 Section?B Directions:?Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. ? A. immeasurably?B. replaced?C. priority?D. failing??E. frustratinglyF. potential??G. minor??H. trick??I. unrepaired?J. prospect?K. wiring Scientific breakthroughs mean that life expectancy continues to rise every year. But the medical advances which now make it possible to think about living to a very great age if not forever also raise profound practical and ethical issues.????Is immortality (永生) a realistic __41__?? ?Not for the foreseeable future. In last year’s Reith lectures, the gerontologist (老年病学家) Professor Tom Kirkwood firmly quashed (打消) the idea that genetic engineering might result in some kind of “fountain of youth”. Considering how __42__slow the battles against cancer, heart disease and strokes have been, he said, it is fanciful to imagine that we could conquer death. On the other hand, scientists do now understand more about why we age, and what can be done to slow down the process. “Our ancestral genes placed limited __43__on long-term maintenance and repair,” says Kirkwood. “Ageing comes about through the gradual build-up of __44__ faults in the cells and tissues of our bodies, not as the result of some active mechanism for death and destruction.” The __45__ , then, is to help the body repair the damage done by wear and tear.?How can that be done?? ?In many different ways, some of which are already pretty common. Organ transplants from pigs and monkeys are now old news the American politician Jesse Helms has just had a ten-year-old pig valve (瓣膜) in his heart __46__. Doctors have succeeded in __47__computerized implants directly to nerve fibres, allowing the deaf to hear, and there is hope that electrodes (电极) planted in the brain may soon offer hope for the blind to see. But the real __48__at the moment lies in the field of stem cells