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辽宁省沈阳市和平区2016-2017学年高一英语下学期期中试题 时间：100分钟 分数：120分 第I卷 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节 （共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分） 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 ANew research has found that even if you give up smoking, the damage it has done to your genes (基因) will stay there for a much longer time. In the research, a team of US scientists studied the blood of 16,000 people. Among them, some were smokers, some used to smoke, and the rest were non-smokers. Scientists compared their genes and found that more than 7,000 genes of smokers had changed--a number that is one-third of known human genes. According to NBC News, both heart disease and cancer are caused by genetic changes. Some people may have had the changes when they were born, but most people get them in their day-to-day lives while doing things like smoking. When you stop smoking, a lot of these genes will return to normal within five years. This means your body is trying to heal (治愈) itself of the harmful effects of smoking. But the changes in some of the genes stay for longer. They can stay for as long as 30 years, It’s almost like leaving a footprint on wet cement (水泥) --it will always be there, even when you’ve walked away and when the cement becomes dry. Although the study results may make people unhappy, there is a bright side: the findings could help scientists invent medicine to treat genetic damage caused by smoking or find ways to tell which people have heart disease or cancer risks. 1．The function of Paragraph 1 is to_________ . A. give an example B. show the main idea of the passage C. make an argument D. introduce the topic of the passage 2．Most genetic changes happen because of___________ . A. people’s bad living habit B. environmental pollution C. people’s condition at birth D. heart disease and cancer 3．The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refers to__________ . A. the footprint B. the cement C. the harmful effect D. the genetic change