Question

WARNING: Holding a cell phone against your ear or putting it in your pocket may be bad for your health.   

This sentence is a warning that you’d better not put it close to you when a new phone is bought. Apple company, for example, doesn't want IPhones to come closer to you than 1.5 centimeters; Research In Motion, BlackBerry's producer, recommends 2.5 centimeters.

(1)If cell phone use can        health problems, the         will be very serious. Americans spend 2.26 trillion minutes chatting on cell phones every year, which brings $109 billion for the wireless businessmen.

Devra Davis, an epidemiologist(皮膚病專家) who has worked for the University of Pittsburgh, has published a book about mobile phone radiation（輻射）"Disconnect." Davis studies how often brain cancer happens during different age groups. She finds a big increase in brain cancer in the 20-to-29 age group and a drop for the older people.

Children are more easily hurt by radiation than grown-ups, Ms. Davis and other scientists point out. But no studies have yet been finished on cell phone radiation and children, she says.

Henry Lai, a research professor, began lab radiation studies in 1980 and found that mice exposed to(暴露在) radiofrequency（電波頻率）radiation had destroyed DNA in their brains.

Ms. Davis recommends using wired earphones（有線耳機）or the phone's speaker. (2)Children should send text messages rather than call, she said, and pregnant（懷孕的） women should keep phones away from their bodies.

1.在（1）句空白處填入適當的詞使句意完整、上下文通順。

2.將（2）句翻譯成中文。

3.回答問題：What kind of people with brain cancer are getting more and more?

4.找出同義句。

Scientists are still carrying on with the studies on cell phone radiation and children

5.找出或寫出該短文的主題句。

 

Answer 1

【答案】

        

1.cause；result

2.孩子們應該發(fā)短信,而不是打電話,她說,孕婦應該保持電話遠離她們的身體。

3.The 20-to-29 age group

4.No studies have yet been finished on cell phone radiation and children。

5.Holding a cell phone against your ear or putting it in your pocket may be bad for your health。

【解析】

試題分析：本文大意：警告：把手機放在耳朵上或放在口袋里可能會對健康有害。蘋果公司建議手機離耳朵1.5厘米遠。一位皮膚專家出版了一本關于手機輻射的書，她研究了在不同群體中腦癌的發(fā)病情況，她發(fā)現在20-29歲年齡段里有腦癌發(fā)病率有一個大大的提高，而在老年人中發(fā)病率降低。兒童比成人更易于被輻射傷害。她建議使用有線耳機或話筒，孩子們應該發(fā)短信,而不是打電話,孕婦應該保持電話遠離她們的身體。

1.考查推理判斷題。根據語境可知假設cell phone use使用手機是產生health problems健康問題的原因，那么有因就有果，cause產生，result結果，故答案填cause；result。

2.考查英澤漢。Children孩子們， should 應該，send發(fā)送， text messages短信， rather than 而不是，call打電話, she said她說,  pregnant women孕婦， should 應該，keep保持， away from遠離， phones電話， their bodies她們的身體，故答案選孩子們應該發(fā)短信,而不是打電話,她說,孕婦應該保持電話遠離她們的身體。

3.細節(jié)理解題。根據She finds a big increase in brain cancer in the 20-to-29 age group and a drop for the older people.她發(fā)現在20-29歲年齡段里有腦癌發(fā)病率有一個大大的提高，而在老年人中發(fā)病率降低，可知答案填The 20-to-29 age group。

4.考查同義句。Scientists are still carrying on with the studies on cell phone radiation and children科學家們仍在進行關于手機輻射和兒童的研究。根據 But no studies have yet been finished on cell phone radiation and children, she says.她說，但是還沒有停止關于手機輻射和兒童的研究，可知答案填No studies have yet been finished on cell phone radiation and children。

5.標題歸納題。根據WARNING: Holding a cell phone against your ear or putting it in your pocket may be bad for your health.  警告：把手機放在耳朵上或放在口袋里可能會對健康有害，故答案填Holding a cell phone against your ear or putting it in your pocket may be bad for your health。

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