高三英语培优外刊阅读学案：医学话题.docxVIP

高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜首例猪肾移植人体获成功，突破还是噱头？ 上周，一则猪肾脏移植人体并成功存活的新闻震惊了医学界。看到这则新闻，我们的第一反应恐怕都是满满的问号：猪肾真的能移植到人体吗？有没有副作用？手术能大范围推广吗？《纽约时报》的这篇报道，就讲述了这项试验的经过以及未来前景。 In a First, Surgeons Attached a Pig Kidney to a Human, and It Worked By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons in New York have successfully attached a kidney grown in a genetically altered pig to a human patient and found that the organ worked normally, a scientific breakthrough that one day may yield a vast new supply of organs for severely ill patients. Researchers have long sought to grow organs in pigs that are suitable for transplantation into humans. Technologies like cloning and genetic engineering have brought that vision closer to reality in recent years, but testing these experimental organs in humans has presented daunting ethical questions. So surgeons at N.Y.U. Langone Health took an astonishing step: With the familys consent, they attached the pigs kidney to a brain-dead patient who was kept alive on a ventilator, and then followed the bodys response while taking measures of the kidneys function. It is the first operation of its kind. The researchers tracked the results for just 54 hours, and many questions remained to be answered about the long-term consequences of such an operation. The procedure will not be available to patients any time soon, as there are significant medical and regulatory hurdles to overcome. Still, experts in the field hailed the surgery as a milestone. The prospect of raising pigs to harvest their organs for humans is bound to raise questions about animal welfare and exploitation, though an estimated one hundred million pigs already are killed in the United States each year for food. 【词汇过关】 请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。 1.surgeon [?s??d?n] n. ______________________ 2.surgery /?s??d??ri/ n. ______________________ 3.breakthrough [?bre?kθru?] n.______________________ 4.yield [ji?ld] v.______________________n. ______________________ 5.vast [vɑ?st] adj. ___________