课时作业37
Ⅰ.阅读理解
(2017·阳高县一中月考)
Among all the fast growing science and technology, the research of human genes, or biological engineering as people call it, is drawing more and more attention now. Sometimes it is a hot topic discussed by people.
The greatest thing that gene technology can do is to cure serious diseases that doctors at present can almost do nothing with, such as cancer and heart disease. Every year, millions of people are murdered by these two killers. And to date, doctors have not found an effective way to cure them. But if the gene technology is applied, not only these two diseases can be cured completely, bringing happiness and more living days to the patients, but also the great amount of money people spend on curing their diseases can be saved, therefore it benefits the economy as well. In addition, human life span (寿命) can be prolonged.
Gene technology can help people to give birth to more healthy and clever children. Some families, with the English imperial (皇家的) family being a good example, have hereditary diseases. This means their children will for sure have the family disease, which is a great trouble for these families. In the past, doctors could do nothing about hereditary diseases. But gene technology can solve this problem perfectly. The scientist just need to find the wrong gene and correct it, and a healthy child will be born.
Some people are worrying that the gene research can be used to manufacture human beings in large quantities. In the past few years, scientists have succeeded in cloning a sheep, therefore these people predict that human babies would soon be cloned. But I believe cloned
babies will not come out in large quantities, for most couples in the world can have babies in a very normal way. Of course, the governments must take care to control gene technology.
1．What does “them” in the second paragraph refer to? A．People with cancer or heart disease. B．Millions of people with serious diseases. C．Some diseases doctors can do nothing with. D．The two illnesses of cancer and heart disease.
2．What can gene technology do according to paragraph three? A．It can help the English imperial family out. B．It can be used to clone human babies. C．It can help people to give birth of a baby. D．It is likely to treat hereditary diseases.
3．What are people worried about according to the passage? A．Human babies may be cloned in a large scale. B．Healthy human babies will soon be cloned. C．Scientists may well find the wrong genes. D．The government may not control gene techs. 4．This passage is mainly written to ________. A．show gene technology will benefit people B．show gene technology will do harm as well C．tell that gene technology is a hot topic D．tell that gene technology is growing fast
答案与解析
基因技术可以帮助生产出更健康更聪明的孩子，可以有助于治愈家庭的遗传病，这表明基因技术将会有益于人类。
1．D 推理判断题。根据文中第二段中The greatest thing that gene technology can do is to cure serious diseases that doctors at present can almost do nothing with, such as cancer and heart disease. Every year, millions of people are murdered by these two killers. And to date, doctors have not found an effective way to cure them.现在医生还没有找到方法治愈癌症和心脏疾病。所以选D。
2．D 推理判断题。根据文中第三段中In the past, doctors could do nothing about hereditary diseases. But gene technology can solve this problem perfectly.可知，基因技术可以治愈遗传疾病。所以选D。
3．A 细节理解题。根据文章中最后一段中therefore these people predict that human babies would soon be cloned.可知，人们担心人类的宝宝将会被克隆。所以选A。
4．A 主旨大意题。这篇文章主要讲了基因技术将会对人类有益。所以选A。
Ⅱ.完形填空
(2017·河南省部分重点中学联考)
For much of the earliest history of our species, home may have been nothing more than a small fire and the light it cast on a few familiar faces. But whatever else __1__ is — and however it entered our consciousness — it's a way of organizing
home，and everything else is not-home.
Not that you can't feel “at home” in __3__ places. But there's a big psychological __4__ between feeling at home and being home. Feeling at home in other places is simply a way of saying that the not-home-ness of those places has __5__ since you first arrived. Some people，as they __6__ through their lives，rediscover home again and again. Some people never find another after once __7__ home. And，of course，some people
__2__in our minds. Home is
__8__ leave the only home they've always known. Homesick children know how __9__ the boundary between home and not-home can be because they __10__ the difference. I know the __11__ because I was one of them. I felt a strong connection between people __12__ in the small town I grew up in. But spending the __13__ away from home，such as sleeping at my friends' houses, made everything seem alien. And yet when I got back home in the morning，home was as usual. That was the __14__—home is a place so __15__ that you don't even have to notice it.
And there's something more. __16__my father died，my brothers and sisters and I went back to his __17__，where he'd lived alone. It wasn't only his __18__ we felt. It was as though something had __19__ from every object in the house. They had，in fact，become __20__ objects. The person whose heart and mind could combine(结合)them into a single thing—a home—had gone.
1．A.history C．fire 2．A.space C．work 3．A.enough C．such
4．A.connection C．relationship 5．A.changed C．reduced 6．A.move
B．home D．light B．time D．concept B．all D．other B．balance D．difference B．remained D．increased B．develop
C．search 7．A.returning C．finding 8．A.also C．never 9．A.limited C．sharp
10．A.learn from C．think about 11．A.feeling C．impression 12．A.nowhere C．somewhere 13．A.morning C．afternoon 14．A.result
C．problem 15．A.familiar C．similar 16．A.Before C．Though 17．A.office C．house 18．A.kindness C．absence
D．choose B．leaving D．forgetting B．again D．ever B．close D．common B．suffer from D．speak about B．illness D．sense B．everywhere D．anywhere B．noon D．night B．view D．point B．safe D．warm B．Until D．After B．hometown D．laboratory B．brightness D．appearance
高三英语（人教版）总复习课时作业37
