Unit10MoneyPeriodFiveCommunicationWorkshop课时精练（北师大版必修4，广东专用）.doc

第  PAGE 8 页 共  NUMPAGES 8 页 Unit 10 Money Period Five Communication Workshop 课时精练（北师大版必修4，广东专用） 　　　时间：40分钟 Ⅰ.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.”　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 【语篇解读】 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．