【題目】What will people die of 100 years from now? If you think that is a simple question, you have not been paying attention to the revolution that is taking place in biotechnology(生物技術(shù)). With the help of new medicine, the human body will last a very long time. Death will come mainly from accidents, murder and war. Today's leading killers, such as heart disease, cancer, and aging itself, will become distant memories.

In discussion of technological changes, the Internet gets most of the attention these days. But the change in medicine can be the real technological event of our times. How long can humans live? Human brains were known to decide the final death. Cells(細(xì)胞)are the basic units of all living things, and until recently, scientists were sure that the life of cells could not go much beyond 120 years because the basic materials of cells, such as those of brain cells, would not last forever. But the upper limits will be broken by new medicine. Sometime between 2050 and 2100, medicine will have advanced to the point at which every 10 years or so, people will be able to take medicine to repair their organs(The medicine, made up of the basic building materials of life, will build new brain cells, heart cells, and so on—in much the same way our bodies make new skin cells to take the place of old ones.)

It is exciting to imagine that the advance in technology may be changing the most basic condition of human existence, but many technical problems still must be cleared up on the way to this wonderful future.

【1】According to the passage, human death is now mainly caused by________.

A．diseases and aging

B．accidents and war

C．accidents and aging

D．heart disease and war

【2】In the author's opinion, today's most important advance in technology lies in________.

A．medicine

B．the Internet

C．brain cells

D．human organ

【3】Humans may live longer in the future because________.

A．heart disease will be far away from us

B．human brains can decide the final death

C．the basic materials of cells will last forever

D．human organs can be repaired by new medicine

【4】We can learn from the passage that________.

A．human life will not last more than 120 years in the future

B．humans have to make medicine to build new skin cells now

C．much needs to be done before humans can have a longer life

D．we have already solved the technical problems in building new cells

【答案】【1】A

【2】A

【3】D

【4】C

【解析】【1】根據(jù)文章中的“目前的主要殺手，例如心臟病、癌癥和衰老，都將成為遙遠(yuǎn)的記憶”來判斷，現(xiàn)在人類的死亡主要是由疾病和衰老引起的，所以選A。

【2】作者談到“醫(yī)學(xué)的變革是我們這個時代真正的技術(shù)事件”，由此我們可以看出作者所認(rèn)為的在技術(shù)方面的重要進(jìn)步就是“醫(yī)學(xué)”，因特網(wǎng)雖然能吸引很多人的注意力，但不是真正的“技術(shù)事件”。

【3】該題問的是將來人類能活得更長的原因。根據(jù)文章的“人們能服藥物來修復(fù)器官”判斷，“人類的器官可以通過新的藥物來修復(fù)”。

【4】推理判斷題。由于細(xì)胞可以不斷地修復(fù)，人們可以活到超過120歲，A項錯誤；文中提到的skin cells是比喻，D項和原句意思相悖。根據(jù)“還有許多技術(shù)問題需要解決”判斷，人類要想長壽還有許多工作需要做，所以C正確。

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