江苏省房山高级中学2020-2021学年高一年级上期末模拟试题《英语考试卷》.docVIP

江苏省房山高级中学2020-2021学年高一年级上期末模拟 英语试题 第一部分：阅读能力 一、阅读理解（每题2分共24分） A How long could we live in the future? Late last year, US researchers at the Buck Institute of Age Research gave a very exciting answer: 500 years. Think about it.If that had been the case many years ago, a person could have lived from the Ming Dynasty until now. But that idea was challenged by scientists at a recent medical conference in the UK, The Times reported. Speaking at the conference, British neurobiologist (神经生物学家) Sir Colin Blakemore, 70, claimed there is a limit on how long humans can live, and how much the body can age