Question

[1] Have you ever had the wish to live another 100 years or more? Experts say that scientific advances will some day enable us to live tens of years longer than what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.

[2] “I guess we are knocking at the door of living longer,” said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “I think by 2075 we will ____________ and that’s a conservative estimate（保守的估計）.”

[3]At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louris, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology（納米技術） make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. “There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said.

[4]However, many scientists who specialize in aging are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to live past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.

[5]Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. “It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have a good quality of life?” said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre. “At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.”

1.What is the main idea of the passage? （no more than 10 words）

2.Please fill in the blanks in the second paragraph with proper words.（no more than 5 words）

3.According to Donald Louris, what will enable humans to live longer?（no more than 8 words）

4.What does the word “it” （Line 1, Paragraph 4) probably refer to? （no more than 10 words）

5.What did Leonard Poon worry about? （no more than 15 words）

 

Answer 1

1.Scientific advances will enable humans to live longer.

2.reach / achieve/ accomplish that goal.

3.Advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology.

4.Whether people can live from 120 to 180 years.

5.Whether we could be healthy enough to have a good quality of life.

【解析】

試題分析：科學的進步將會使人類能夠活得更久。

1.Experts say that scientific advances will some day enable us to live tens of years longer than what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span. ”

2.Michael Zey所說的話，而他的前一句話：“I guess we are knocking at the door of living longer,”即“我認為我們正在叩開長壽之門”所以，緊接著說“我認為到2075年我們將會“實現這一目標”。那么就應填reach / achieve/ accomplish that goal.

3. Donald Louris,…said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology（納米技術） make it likely that humans will live in the future…”可知，是“使用基因及納米技術的進步”使得人們在將來能活得更長久成為可能。故該空填 Advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology.

4.

5. Leonard Poon的觀點出現在最后一段，在此“‘…could you be healthy enough to have a good quality of life?’said Leonard Poon”直接道出了他的擔心。

考點：考查學生的語言綜合能力（語言的輸入、整合及輸出）