山东省邹平双语学校高二英语下学期期中模拟试题文(一区,无答案)_图文精品.pdfVIP

山东省邹平双语学校高二英语下学期期中模拟试题文（一区，无答案） 邹平双语学校 2015-2016 学年度第二学期期中模拟试题 高二年级英语试卷（文科） （时间120 分钟，满分 150 分） 第 I 卷（共 100 分） 第一部分：听力 (共两节，满分 30 分) 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题 卡上。 略 第二部分：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，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项 涂黑。 A Eating 40 percent less food could extend a persons life by 20 years, according to scientists. Researchers at the Institute of Healthy Aging at University College London are developing a treatment that they hope will fight the “disease” of getting older. They are looking into genetics (遗传学) and find that lifestyle can affect aging and add years, possibly decades, to a persons life. Age­related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and neuro degeneration can also be treated, it is claimed. They want to find out how the life of a rat can be increased by up to 30 percent simply by reducing its food intake. Researcher Dr. Piper told The Independent: “Ifyou reduce the diet of a rat by 40 percent it will live for 20 or 30 percent longer. So we would be talking 20 years of human life. This has shown on all sorts of animals, even Labradors (a kind of dog).” The scientists are also studying fruit flies, which share 60 percent of human genes and age in a similar manner, and mice. They have already made the healthy lifespan (寿命) longer in both flies and mice by 1 / 10 山东省邹平双语学校高二英语下学期期中模拟试题文（一区，无答案） using drug treatments and a balanced diet. It is hoped that this combination will also work to extend (延长) human life. Dr. Piper said, “Ifwe discover the genes involved with aging, we should be able to delay aging itself. This is what weve found.” He added that the field of research into extending life is