Question

B [2015 •安徽合肥高三二檢]

Severely disabled people may soon be able to use their noses to write, drive a wheelchair or surf the Internet, thanks to a device(裝置)developed by doctors in Israel.

The device will be used by breathing in and out through the nose, according to a study. Healthy people who tested the device quickly learned to play computer games and write sentences by sniffing. Encouraged by the results, the re?searchers decided to test their device on people who are para?lysed (雜 疾的) but whose intelligence remains normal. Ten paralysed people who tested the device quickly learned to use their noses to write words, open a web page, copy words and put them into a search engine.

With their success in helping severely disabled people to communicate, the researchers decided to make use of the new technology to design an electric wheelchair to be driven by sniffs.

Ten healthy people easily mastered sniff-driving a wheel?chair through a maze, and a 30-year-old man who had been paralysed from the neck down for six years was as good a sniff-driver as the healthy participants at his second attempt. In other words, a paralysed person could use the sniff con?troller to drive an electric wheelchair.

At the moment, sniff-controlled technology is still in the stage of development, and the Weizmann Institute of Science has already applied for a patent on the device. "I'll be very happy if it can help us to make money, but the real problem is that I hope someone will develop it, because this would help a lot of people," said Sobel, one of the lead researchers of the study.

4.What's the purpose of the passage?

 A.     To introduce a new invention.

B.     To equip the disabled with life skills.

C.     To show the nose's special functions.

D.     To instruct doctors to apply for a patent.

5.In the test, the paralysed people with normal intelligence can use their noses to .

 A.     type long sentences quickly

B.     play computer games easily

C.      enter a website without much difficulty

D.     communicate with others successfully

 6.With the help of the sniffing device, a 30-year-old disabled man_________ .

 A.     spent six years learning how to drive a wheelchair

B.     failed to drive through the maze at his first attempt

C.     took the wheelchair controlled by healthy participants

D.     managed to drive an electric wheelchair by sniffing

7.From the last paragraph* we can infer that the sniff-con-trolled technology___________ .

 A.     will be applied to other fields of research

B.      needs further developing to serve more people

C.      has become a patent invention

 D.   shows the wisdom and talents of Israeli doctors

Answer 1

B [文章大意]本文是一篇說明文，主要介紹了一項新發(fā)明。這項發(fā)明可以幫助殘疾人利用他們的鼻子去完成一些本來難以完成的事情。

4. A 主旨大意題。根據(jù)首段的"Severely disabled people may soon be able to use their noses to write, drive a wheelchair or surf the Internet, thanks to a device(裝置)developed by doctors in Isra-el."及全文內(nèi)容來看，本文主要介紹了一項新的發(fā)明，故選A項。

5. C 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段的"Ten paralysed people who tested the device quickly learned to use their noses to write words* open a web page, copy words and put them into a search engine."可知選C項。

6.D 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段的"Ten healthy people easily mas-tered sniff-driving a wheelchair through a maze, and a 30-year-old man who had been paralysed from the neck down for six years was as good a sniff-driver as the healthy participants at his second at-tempt."可知，利用這個裝置，一個30歲的殘疾人像正常人一樣自由控制輪椅，故選D項。

7. B 推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段的"At the moment, sniff-con?trolled technology is still in the stage of development, and the Weizmann Institute of Science has already applied for a patent on the. device."可以判斷這個裝置仍處于試驗階段，故選B項。