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(皮肤病专家) who has worked for the University of Pittsburgh, has published a book about mobile phone radiation（辐射）"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（电波频率）radiation had destroyed DNA in their brains.

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

1.在（1）句空白处填入适当的词使句意完整、上下文通顺。

2.将（2）句翻译成中文。

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

4.找出同义句。

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

5.找出或写出该短文的主题句。

Answer

1.cause；result

2.孩子们应该发短信,而不是打电话,她说,孕妇应该保持电话远离她们的身体。

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】

试题分析：本文大意：警告：把手机放在耳朵上或放在口袋里可能会对健康有害。苹果公司建议手机离耳朵1.5厘米远。一位皮肤专家出版了一本关于手机辐射的书，她研究了在不同群体中脑癌的发病情况，她发现在20-29岁年龄段里有脑癌发病率有一个大大的提高，而在老年人中发病率降低。儿童比成人更易于被辐射伤害。她建议使用有线耳机或话筒，孩子们应该发短信,而不是打电话,孕妇应该保持电话远离她们的身体。

1.考查推理判断题。根据语境可知假设cell phone use使用手机是产生health problems健康问题的原因，那么有因就有果，cause产生，result结果，故答案填cause；result。

2.考查英泽汉。Children孩子们， should 应该，send发送， text messages短信， rather than 而不是，call打电话, she said她说,  pregnant women孕妇， should 应该，keep保持， away from远离， phones电话， their bodies她们的身体，故答案选孩子们应该发短信,而不是打电话,她说,孕妇应该保持电话远离她们的身体。

3.细节理解题。根据She finds a big increase in brain cancer in the 20-to-29 age group and a drop for the older people.她发现在20-29岁年龄段里有脑癌发病率有一个大大的提高，而在老年人中发病率降低，可知答案填The 20-to-29 age group。

4.考查同义句。Scientists are still carrying on with the studies on cell phone radiation and children科学家们仍在进行关于手机辐射和儿童的研究。根据 But no studies have yet been finished on cell phone radiation and children, she says.她说，但是还没有停止关于手机辐射和儿童的研究，可知答案填No studies have yet been finished on cell phone radiation and children。

5.标题归纳题。根据WARNING: Holding a cell phone against your ear or putting it in your pocket may be bad for your health.  警告：把手机放在耳朵上或放在口袋里可能会对健康有害，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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