2018高考倒计时第九天英语必考题型阅读理解专练.PDF

2018 高考倒计时第九天英语必考题型 阅读理解专练 第 1 卷 评卷人 得分 一、阅读理解 1. Heart transplant surgery is a common medical treatment in the United States. Some doctors are skilled at removing the heart from someone who has just died, and then preparing it for another person who needs a new heart. Nationwide, about 4,000 new patients a year are listed for a heart transplant. But only about 2,500 are able to have the operation. The reason is that there is a shortage of organ donors. Some people do not want to donate their organs or those of a loved one. But also, some donated organs do not make it to the surgery room in the right condition for transplant. Once the organ is removed from the donor, there is only a short time to get the organ to the person who needs it. The average length is four to six hours. After that, the organ begins to fail. This can be a problem if the donor died far away from the recipient (接受者). Traditionally, the donated hearts are transported in an ice box. Keeping the organ on ice has been the best way to preserve it. Medical workers sometimes carry the box on a helicopter or airplane. Now, a new travel box contains equipment that keeps the heart beating during transport. The only time it stops beating is for a few minutes — just before it is placed into the chest of the person receiving it. For more than a year, the Organ Care System has been tested in the United States. The system, also known as “heartin a box”, has an American manufacturer, a company called TransMedics. TransMedics develops a transport pump to preserve the heart function, which allows doctors to better match the hearts to the recipients so that more of the hearts that are being donated can actually be used and implanted into recipients. The equipment has been tested on flights up to 11 hours long. The machine pumps donated blood th