How long do you want to live? How many years might be added to a life? Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.（壽命）
“I think we are knocking at the door of immortality(永生) , " said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. "I think by 2075 we will see it and that's a conservative estimate(保守的估計(jì))."
At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology(納米技術(shù)) 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. "Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.
However, many scientists who research into ageing are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say the failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.
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 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."
小題1:By saying "we are knocking at the door of immortality", Michael Zey means ______.
A．they have got some ideas about living forever
B．they are sure to find the truth about long living
C．they believe that there is no limit of living
D．they are able to make people live past the present life span
小題2:Donald Louria's attitude towards long living is that ______.
A．people can live from 120 to 180
B．it is possible for humans to live longer in the future
C．the human body is designed to last past about 120 years
D．it is still doubtful how long humans can live
小題3:The underlined word "it"( in Paragraph 4)refers to______.
A．using genes as well as nanotechnology
B．the idea of living beyond the present life span
C．a(chǎn) great push
D．the conservative estimate
小題4:What would be the best title for this text? 
A．No Limit for Human LifeB．Science, Technology and Long Living
C．Living Longer or NotD．Healthy Lifestyle and Long Living

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:B
小題4:C

試題分析：文章介紹隨著科技的發(fā)展人類可能比現(xiàn)在更長壽，但是有人卻是持有懷疑態(tài)度的，即使可以長壽，健康狀況也是很差的。
小題1:猜義題。根據(jù)短文第一段的內(nèi)容Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.（壽命）可判斷出 Michael Zey 的意思是“他們已經(jīng)獲得了使人們永生的主意”選A。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)推斷題。第三段“Some have suggested that there is no limit and that peoplecould live to 200 or 300 or 500 years”說明 Donald Louria 認(rèn)為將來人們的壽命會(huì)更長。選B
小題3:指代題：根據(jù)第三段的最后句子"Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years和根據(jù)第四段的內(nèi)容可判斷出 it 所指的是“人們將來的壽命將會(huì)超過現(xiàn)在人的壽命”的觀點(diǎn)。選B
小題4:標(biāo)題確定題：文章就人類是否能比現(xiàn)在過的長，闡述了不同人的觀點(diǎn)，有人持樂觀的態(tài)度，但是有人卻是懷疑的，所以Living Longer or Not 是最好的標(biāo)題。選C
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