题目
题型:湖北省期中题难度:来源:
after only a month of weightlessness, according to French research published on Friday.
Laurence Vico and his fellow workers at St Etienne University called for more research
into the effects of microgravity, after their study of 15 astronauts from the Russian MIR station
showed bone loss continued throughout space flights.
"Bone loss was especially striking in four astronauts, " the scientists reported in the Lancet
Medical Journal.
They measured the bone mineral density (BMD) of bones in the forearm(前臂) and
lower leg of the astronauts who had spent one to six months in space.
The BMD loss was significant in the tibia(胫骨) of the lower leg, a weight-bearing bone,
but barely changed in the radius(桡骨) of the forearm. "Our results indicate the need to
investigate not only different bones, but also different areas of the same bone since not all
sites of the skeleton (骨架) are similarly affected by space conditions, " they added.
Without gravity the body isn"t bearing any weight so there is no need for calcium (钙)
which makes bones strong, and it becomes empty into the bloodstream.
The research team suggested in future scientists should try to determine if the loss of bone
density was only on weight-bearing bones on longer flights, also the possible recovery after
returning to Earth.
B. they were not interested in their own astronauts
C. the Russian government invited them to do their research
D. the Russian astronauts worked in space for a period of time
B. the BMD loss may cause some change in astronauts" bodies
C. astronauts shouldn"t care about the BMD loss
D. astronauts should take some calcium before space travel
B. The drinks they take in space.
C. The temperature in space.
D. The gravity in space.
B. simple
C. weak
D. slow
答案
核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 Space travel is definitely bad for astronauts" bones, reducing their b】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
much like ours. In fact, Charles Darwin"s theory of evolution says that monkeys and humans share
a common ancestor. We enjoy watching them because they often act like us, and we also love to
use many expressions about monkeys in almost every language This is why many monkey expressions
are about tricky people or playful acts.
Monkeyshine is one of these expressions to show tricks or foolish acts. The meaning is clear if
you have ever watched a group of monkeys playfully chasing each other:pulling tails, stealing food,
doing tricks.
Monkeying around with something means that you do not know what you are doing. When you feel
like doing something but have no firm idea of what to do, you are monkeying around. It is just a way
to pass the time.
Monkey business usually means secret, maybe illegal activities You may come across a news
report that there is monkey business involved in building the new airport, with some officials getting
secret payments from builders.
Monkey suits are common names for clothes or uniforms soldiers wear. In earlier years in many
American cities, you would find men playing musical hand organs on the street. Dancing to the music
would be the man"s small monkey that was dressed in a tight-fitting, colorful jacket similar to a military
uniform. So, people began to call a military uniform a monkey suit.
B. Monkeys have the same brains as humans.
C. Monkeys often act like humans in many ways.
D. Monkeys are humans closest relatives in species.
B. monkeying around
C. monkey suit
D. monkey business
B. are originally designed for American soldiers
C. share typical features with military uniforms
D. make American soldiers look like monkeys
B. used on some formal occasions
C. about tricks and naughtiness
D. about terrible funny behaviors
needs of man. The sea has provided man with food and a convenient way to travel to many parts of the
world. Today, nearly two-thirds of the world"s population lives within 80 kilometers of the sea coast.
In the modern technological world, the sea offers many resources to help mankind survive. Resources
on land are beginning to be used up. The sea, however, still can be hoped to supply many of man"s needs.
The list of riches of the sea yet to be developed by man"s technology is big. Oil and gas explorations
have been carried out for nearly 30 years. Valuable amounts of minerals exist on the ocean floor ready
to be mined.
Fish farming promises to be a good way to produce large quantities of food. The culture of fish and
shellfish (贝类动物) is an ancient skill practised in the past mainly by Oriental people, including people
in China.
Besides oil and gas, the sea may offer new sources of energy. Experts believe that the warm
temperature of the ocean can be used in a way similar to the steam in a steamship. Ocean currents and
waves offer possible use as a source of energy.
Technology is enabling man to explore ever more deeply under the sea. The development of strong,
new materials has made this possible.
The technology to harvest the sea continues to improve. Experts believe that by the year 2020 the
problems that prevent us from exploiting (开发) fully the food, minerals, and energy sources of the sea
will be largely solved.
B. minerals and oil
C. warm temperature and ocean currents
D. the food, energy sources, and minerals
B. the sea, in the broad sense, has not yet been developed
C. the problems preventing our using the resources of the sea have already been solved.
D. by the year 2020, the technology will be good enough to exploit all the sea resources.
B. African people
C. European people
D. American people
B. Technology for Exploiting the Sea
C. Sea Harvest
D. Man, nature and the Sea
Kind-hearted parents have unknowingly left their children defenseless against failure. The
generation born between 1980 and 2001 grew up playing sports where scores and
performance were played down because "everyone"s winner." And their report cards
sounded more positivethan ever before. As a result, Stanford University professor Carol
Dweck, PhD, calls them "the overpraised generation."
Dweck has been studying how people deal with failure for 40 years. Her research
has led her to find out two clearly different mind-sets that have a great effect on how we
react to it. Here"s how they work:
A fixed mind-set is grounded in the belief that talent (才能) is genetic - you"re a born
artist, point guard, or numbers person. The fixed mind-set believes it"s sure to succeed
without much effort and regards failure as personal shame. When things get difficult, it"s
quick to blame, lie, and even stay away from future difficulties.
On the other hand, a growth mind-set believes that no talent is entirely heaven-sent
and that effort and learning make everything possible. Because the ego (自尊) isn"t on t
he line as much, the growth mind-set sees failure as a chance rather than shame. When
faced with a difficulty, it"s quick to rethink, change and try again. In fact, it enjoys this
experience.
We are all born with growth mind-sets. (Otherwise, we wouldn"t be able to live in
the world.) But parents, teachers, and instructors often push us into fixed mind-sets by
encouraging certain actions and misdirecting praise. Dweck"s book, Mind-set: The New
Psychology of Success, and online instructional program explain this in depth. But she
says there are many little things you can start doing today to make sure that your children,
grandchildren and even you are never defeated by failure.
B. They are often misunderstood.
C. They are eager to win in sports.
D. They are given too much praise.
B. cares a lot about personal safety
C. cannot share his ideas with others
D. can succeed with the help of teachers
B. Talent comes with one"s birth.
C. Scores should be highly valued.
D. Getting over difficulties is enjoyable.
B. Prevent them from making mistakes.
C. Guide them in doing little things.
D. Help them grow with praise.
A new review based on a research shows that stress affects the way the brain considers
the advantages and disadvantages, causing it to focus on pleasure and ignore the possible
negativeconsequences(results) of a decision.
The research suggests that stress may change the way people make choices.
"Stress affects how people learn," says Professor Mara Mather. "People learn better
about positive than negative outcomes under stress."
For example, two recent studies looked at how people learned to connect images with
either rewards or punishments. In one experiment, some of the participants were first
stressed by having to give a speech and do difficult math problems in front of an audience;
in the other, some were stressed by having to keep their hands in ice water. In both cases,
the stressed participants remembered the rewarded material more accurately(精确) and
the punished material less accurately than those who hadn"t gone through the stress.
This phenomenon is likely not surprising to anyone who has tried to resist eating cookies
or smoking a cigarette while under stress -at those moments, only the pleasure associated
with such activities comes to mind. But the findings further suggest that stress may bring
about a double effect. Not only are rewarding experiences remembered better, but negative
consequences are also easily recalled.
The research also found that stress appears to affect decision-making differently in men
and women. While both men and women tend to focus on rewards and less on consequences
under stress, their responses to risk turn out to be different.
Men who had been stressed by the cold-water task tended to take more risks in the
experiment while women responded in the opposite way. In stressful situations in which
risk-taking can pay off big, men may tend to do better, when caution weighs more,
however, women will win.
This tendency to slow down and become more cautious when decisions are risky might
also help explain why women are less likely to become addicted than men: they may more
often avoid making the risky choices that eventually harden into addiction.
B. recall consequences more effortlessly
C. make risky decisions more frequently
D. learn a subject more effectively
B. preference for pleasure
C. tolerance(容忍) of punishments
D. responses to suggestions
B. men have a greater tendency to slow down
C. women focus more on outcomes
D. men are more likely to take risks
diseased kidney from a woman.What"s so unusual about that?David Nichol was in his
office in Australia while the woman lay on an operating table in New Zealand.
What connected them was a technology called remote surgery(手术).
Remote surgery itself is not new.In 2001,a group of doctors in New York,US,removed
a gall bladder (胆囊)from a patient lying in France.It was the first successful case of remote
surgery used on a human across international borders.
Now,Nichol"s operation is to be the first one performed on the kidneys.Nichol used
joysticks (操纵杆)to direct robotic arms in the New Zealand operating room during
the two-hour operation.The joysticks and the robotic arms are linked by a computer
network.Nichol could watch the robot"s work while doctors in New Zealand checked
the patient and changed the instruments as needed."Before this technology,I would have
been in the operating theatre (手术室)when they were performing the operation," Nichol
said.During remote surgery,the doctor is the one in control.The robots carry out the
operation using a complex method.
Doctors have found that a robot is better than a human surgeon at carrying out this
difficult operation—even when it is controlled thousands of miles away.Unlike humans,
robotic "arms" do not shake when they target a small piece of tissue (组织)or organ.In
remote surgery such as the removal of kidney stones,the robotic arm inserts a long special
needle into the patient"s body and X-rays guide it to the kidney.
Once the robotic arm has reached the hard kidney stone,the needle gets wider so that
a tiny telescope can travel down it and look at the organ.Then instruments are used to
break up the stone and get rid of the remaining waste.
For doctors,the technology means less stress in the operation room.And for patients,it
means far less chance of suffering blood loss or damage to a nearby organ.
However,the remote surgery is not widely used because it"s still very expensive.A remote
operation on a gall bladder costs more than US $1 million.A normal operation costs US
$2000.It will be some time yet before the price falls and the operation is available to people
throughout the world.
B.it as a robot that was carrying out the operation
C.the patient and the doctor in control were in different countries
D.it was the first successful operation of remote surgery performed on kidneys
B.cure
C.meet with
D.get close to
A.The joysticks.
B.The robot.
C.The network.
D.The doctor. .
B.It is more convenient for doctors to perform the operations.
C.The patients will have less chance of suffering blood loss or damage to a nearby organ.
D.The robot is better than a human surgeon
最新试题
- 1阅读下面一段话,按要求答题。(4分) 成,如朗月照花,深tán微澜,不论顺逆,不论成败的超然,是“扬鞭策马,登高临远”的
- 2—Why is Harvey"s mother so happy?—Because only three student
- 3枯叶蝶的腹面颜色鲜艳,在飞行时格外引人注目,但落地后,其颜色和形状却俨象一片枯叶.这种现象的形成是由于桔叶蝶的祖先(
- 4下列图片反映的历史事件发生的先后顺序是( )A.①②③④B.④②③①C.①④②③D.④③②①
- 5第十一届全国人大代表由各省、自治区、直辖市、香港特别行政区、澳门特别行政区和中国人民解放军等35个选举单位选举产生,共2
- 6Speak, speak, speak!Practise speaking as often as you can. S
- 7【题文】下图中表示的热力环流中,错误的是 ( )
- 8据报道:某化工厂一装有数十吨浓盐酸的贮酸罐突然发生泄漏,并冒出浓浓的白雾,水泥地面上冒出许多气泡。消防队员们赶赴现场,用
- 9---It’s a lovely day, isn’t it?---Yes. I love _____ when the
- 10已知函数f(x)=xm+ax的导函数f′(x)=2x+1,,点An(n, Sn)在函数y="f(x)" (n∈N*)的图
热门考点
- 1下表是我国几个城市某年一月份的平均气温,其中气温最低的城市是( )城市哈尔滨厦门武汉北京平均气温(单位:℃)-19.4
- 2如右图所示,光滑半球形容器固定在水平面上,O为球心.一质量为m的小滑块,在水平力F的作用下静止于P点。设滑块所受支持力为
- 3分析图2-2-4,下列选项正确的是( )A.造纸厂由①搬迁到②,MN段铁路由③改线到④B.造纸厂由①搬迁到⑦,MN段
- 4翻译下列句子1. 他们在世界各地举办音乐会,音乐会的票总是销售一空. They"ve ________ _____
- 5已知(x,y)在映射f下的象是(x+y2,x-y2),那么(-5,2)在f下的原象是( )A.(-10,4)B.(-6
- 6计算:(-3)2-9-38-1+916+(-12)2.
- 71937年2月,中国共产党致电国民党,提出了“工农政府改名为中华民国特区政府,红军改名为国民革命军,直接受南京中央政府与
- 8阅读 试跳成功。紧接着,一对对斑羚凌空跃起,在山涧上空画出一道道令人眼花缭乱的孤线。每一只年轻斑羚的成功飞跳
- 9小芳对好朋友晓菲说:“上了中学以后,我们就不太愿意和父母谈心,有心事,我宁愿向好朋友倾述。”晓菲说到:“我也深有同感。”
- 10解不等式(1)9-2(x-2)≥6 (2)12-3x<8-2x