【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 pletely, bringing happiness and more living days to the patients, but also the great amount of money people spend on curing their diseases can be saved, therefore it benefits the economy as well. In addition, human life span(壽命) can be prolonged. Gene technology can help people to give birth to more healthy and clever children. Some families, with the English imperial(皇室) family being a good example, have hereditary(遺傳的) diseases. This means their children will for sure have the family disease, which is a great trouble for these families. In the past, doctors could do nothing about hereditary diseases. But gene technology can solve this problem perfectly. The scientist just need to find the wrong gene and correct it and a healthy child will be born. Some people are worrying that the gene research can be used to manufacture human beings in large quantities. In the past few years, scientists have succeeded in cloning a sheep。 therefore these people predict that human babies would soon be cloned. But I believe cloned babies will not e out in large quantities, for most couples in the world can have babies in very normal way. Of course, the governments must take care to control gene technology.（1）What does these two killers in the second paragraph refer to? A.Gene technology and another treatment of the two diseases.B.The two murderers who killed the cloned baby.C.The two diseases of cancer and heart disease.D.Hereditary diseases and cancer.（2）What39。s the main idea of the third paragraph? A.How gene technology can be applied in the field of treating hereditary diseases.B.Gene technology can be used to clone human babies.C.Gene technology can help people to give birth of a baby.D.Gene technology can help the English imperial family out.（3）In what way gene technology can help to treat hereditary diseases? A.Using gene technology, people with hereditary diseases can have more living days.B.Using gene technology, scientist finds the wrong gene and corrects it.C.Using gene technology, human babies can be cloned.D.Doctors can cure cancer and heart disease with the help of gene technology.（4）What is the main purpose of writing this passage? A.Expressing the writer39。s idea that gene technology will benefit peopleB.Telling people the advantages of gene technologyC.Telling the readers that gene technology will not benefit peopleD.Explaining that gene technology will also do harm to the humanity【答案】 （1）C（2）A（3）B（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了基因技術(shù)，詳細(xì)講述了基因技術(shù)的好處。 （1）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第二段中的“The greatest thing that gene technology can do is to cure serious diseases that doctors at present can almost do nothing with, such as cancer and heart disease.”基因技術(shù)所能做的最偉大的事情就是治愈嚴(yán)重的疾病，而這些疾病是目前醫(yī)生們幾乎無能為力的，比如癌癥和心臟病，及劃線詞所在句“Every year, millions of people are murdered by these two killers.”每年都有數(shù)百萬人被這兩名殺手殺害，可知，每年造成數(shù)百萬人死亡的元兇就是癌癥和心臟病。由此可知，these two killers 指的是上文做的cancer and heart 。 （2）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)第三段中的“In the past, doctors could do nothing about hereditary diseases. But gene technology can solve this problem perfectly. The scientist just need to find the wrong gene and correct it and a healthy child will be born.”在過去，醫(yī)生對遺傳病無能為力。但是基因技術(shù)可以完美地解決這個問題。科學(xué)家只需要找到錯誤的基因并加以糾正，一個健康的孩子就會誕生?？芍?，第三段主要介紹了基因技術(shù)可以被應(yīng)用于治愈家族病。故選A。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的“The scientist just need to find the wrong gene and correct it, and a healthy child will be born”科學(xué)家只需要找到錯誤的基因和糾正它,和一個健康的孩子將出生，可知，利用基因技術(shù)，科學(xué)家發(fā)現(xiàn)錯誤的基因并加以糾正，這樣就可以治愈家族病了。故選B。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)標(biāo)題“Gene technology to benefit people”基因技術(shù)造福人類；及最后一段中的“But I believe cloned babies will not e out in large quantities, for most couples in the world can have babies in very normal way. Of course, the governments must take care to control gene technology.”但我相信克隆嬰兒不會大量出現(xiàn)，因為世界上大多數(shù)夫婦可以用非常正常的方式生育。當(dāng)然，政府必須小心控制基因技術(shù)，可知，文章主要表達(dá)作者了認(rèn)為基因技術(shù)將造福人類的觀點。故選A。 【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測，推理判斷和主旨大意四個題型的考查，是一篇科技類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。5．閱讀理解 The term smiling depression —appearing happy to others while actually suffering depressive symptoms—has bee increasingly popular. In fact, many people who experience a low mood and a loss of pleasure in activities manage to hide their condition in this way. And these people might be particularly easy to suicide. While smiling depression is not a technical term that psychologists use，it is certain to be depressed and manage to successfully mask the symptoms. The closest technical term for this condition is atypical depression: It can be very hard to spot people suffering depression because they may seem like they don39。t have a reason to be sad — they have a job, an apartment and maybe even children or a partner. They smile when you greet them and can carry pleasant conversations. In short, they often put on a mask to the outside world while leading seemingly normal and active lives. Inside, however, they often feel hopeless and down, sometimes even having thoughts about ending it all. People with smiling depression put on a happy face to the outside world, but they can experience a lift in their mood as a result of positive occurrences in their lives. Other symptoms of this condition include overeating, feeling a sense of heaviness in the arms and legs and being easily hurt by criticism or rejection. They are also more likely to feel depressed in the evening and feel the need to sleep longer than usual. With other forms of depression, however, your mood might be worse in the morning and you might feel the need for less sleep than you are normally used to. So how can they break this circle? A starting point needs to be known that this condition actually exists and that it39。s serious. Only when we stop ignoring our problems because we think they39。re not serious enough can we start making an actual difference. Then we can find purpose by taking the attention away from ourselves and placing it onto something else. Feeling that our lives matter is finally what gives us purpose and meaning — and this can make a significant difference for our mental health and wellbeing.（1）What do we know about people suffering smiling depression? A.They are wearing masks all day.B.They are difficult