内蒙古2020学年高二英语下学期教学质量调研试题三.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 13 - 高二英语下学期教学质量调研试题三 分值：120分 时间：100分钟） 注意事项： 1．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号填写在答题卡上。 2. 将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。 3. 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。 第I卷（选择题，共70分） 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) 阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 A To most of us, medicine comes from a drugstore. But originally, much of the medicine developed in the last century came from natural sources: plants or bacteria. Now, a group of scientists in Great Britain are hoping to develop a medicine from poisonous insects. They are researching whether the deadly venom（毒液）of some insects can work against bacteria. Venom tech laboratory About 400 insects live in plastic containers in the Venomtech laboratory. Each container has an image of a skull and crossbones. The images warn that a bite from the insects inside can be anything from painful to deadly. The venom from these insects contains hundreds of chemical components. Each component has a different target and effect. Medical researchers separate the venom into its component parts. Then they create a library of those components, looking for the ones that could be turned into new drugs. “Some of them we found can kill bacteria, like E Coli, so they’re very relevant at the moment where modern medicines are failing. And we’re also finding venom that is changing and killing cancer cells.” Finding new ways to kill bacteria is important to researchers. One reason is that people have used antibiotics (抗生素)so much that some bacteria can now resist it. For example, tuberculosis used to be curable with antibiotics. Now it is not. How do they get the venom out? To get as much venom as possible, researchers feed the insects well and then put them to sleep temporarily. Steven Trim of Venomtech says researchers anaesthetize the insects to make removing the venom safer. After all, an immobile insect cannot bite. Researchers then electrically stimulate the insect to contract(收缩)the muscle and squeeze the gland(腺). The pressure produces a small amount of venom.