French surgeons have performed what they said on Wednesday was the world's first partial face transplant--- giving a new nose, chin and lips to a woman attacked by a dog.
Specialists from two French hospitals carried out the operation on a 38-year-old woman on Sunday in the northern city of Amiens by taking the face from a brain-dead woman, who had hanged herself just hours before the operation. Her family agreed on the operation.
“The patient is in an excellent state and the transplant looks normal,” the hospitals said in a brief statement after waiting three days to announce the pioneering surgery.
The woman had been left without a nose and lips after the dog attacked her last May, and was unable to talk or chew properly. Such injuries are “extremely difficult, if not impossible” to repair using normal surgical techniques, the statement said.
The statement did not say what the woman would look like when she had fully recovered, but medical experts said she was unlikely to resemble the woman who had been the source of her new face.
The operation was led by Jean-Michel Dubernard, a specialist from a hospital in Lyon who has also carried out hand transplants,
Skin
transplants have long been used to treat burns and other injuries, but
operations around the mouth and nose have been considered very difficult
because of the area's high sensitivity to foreign tissue.
Teams in France, the United States and Britain had been developing techniques to make face transplants a reality
There was a short-term risk for the patient if blood vessels became blocked, a medium-term danger of her body rejecting the new skin and a long-term possibility that the drugs used could cause cancers.
Experts say that although such medical advances should be celebrated, the transplant had thrown up moral（道德的）and ethical(伦理的)issues. Little is known about the psychological effect of the transplant.
1.The best title for the passage would be ________.
A. French Woman has First Partial Face Transplant
B. First Face Transplant Opens Debate
C. Risks and Ethical Problems of a Face Transplant
D. A Complete Face Transplant of a French Woman
2.Why did the woman need such an operation?
A. Her face had been bitten by a dog
B. Her face had been burnt in a fire.
C. She was born especially ugly
D. She wanted to test such an operation.
3.The underlined word "resemble" means ________.
A. to remember forever
B. to recognize immediately
C. to set as an example
D. to present similarity or likeness to
4.What can we learn about the operation?
A. The woman had used the dead woman' s whole face.
B. There has arisen a debate about the operation.
C. The woman will suffer from psychological damage soon.
D. Such transplants have been performed by doctors.
The United Nations says forty million people or so around the world went hungry in 2008, mainly because of higher food prices. Early estimates from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) show that 963 million people did not get enough to eat.
World food prices have dropped since early 2008. Prices of major crops have decreased by more than half from their height earlier last year. But they remain high compared to earlier years.
But FAO official Hafez Ghanem says lower prices have failed to end the food crisis (危机) in many poor countries. “For millions in developing countries,” he says, “getting enough food every day to live an active and healthy life is a distant dream. ”
The FAO says food shortage is a threat to people's health. Today, two-thirds of the world's undernourished people live in just a few countries. These are India, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Ethiopia and so on.
A report on food insecurity warns that the current economic crisis could send even more people into hunger and poverty.
In sub-Saharan Africa, the percentage of the people who continually go hungry fell from 34% in 1997 to 30% in 2008. But the FAO says Ghana is the only country that has reached two sets of hunger reduction targets. These were set by the 1996 World Food Summit and the Millennium Development Goals. The main reason is the growth in agricultural production in Ghana.
The
FAO says some countries in Southeast Asia like Thailand and Vietnam have made
progress in hunger reduction goals. But South Asia and Central Asia haven't,
and North Korea is still in hot water.
1.What FAO official Hafez Ghanem says implies（暗示）__________
A. it's easy but takes long to provide people with enough food
B. enough food can make people more active and healthier
C. there is difficulty solving the food shortage in a short time
D. people in developing countries will never get enough food
2.The underlined word "undernourished" in Para. 4 probably means ________.
A. hungry and unhappy B. unhealthy for lack of food
C. not fat because of poverty D. undeveloped and poor
3.What is the best title of this passage?
A. The food production of the world
B. The hunger reduction target of the FAO
C. The food shortage around the world
D. The solution to the global food shortage
My parents operated a small restaurant in Seattle. It was open twenty-four hours a day, six days a week. And my first real job，when I was six years old，was1.the diners’ shoes. My father had done it when he was young，so he taught me2.to do it efficiently，telling me to 3.to Re-shine the shoes if the customer wasn’t4..
Working in the restaurant was a cause of great5.because I was also working for the good of the family. But my father6.that I had to meet certain standards to be part of the team. I7.to be punctual，hard-working，and polite to the8..
I was9.paid for the work I did at the restaurant. One day I made the mistake of advising Dad that he10.give me $10 a week. He said，“OK. How about you paying me for three meals a day you have here? And11.the times you bring in your friends for free soft drinks?” He12.I owed him about $40 a week.
I remember returning to Seattle after being13. in the US Army for about two years. I had just been promoted to Captain at that time. And full of pride，I walked into my parents’ restaurant，but the14.thing Dad said was，“How about your15.up tonight?” I couldn’t16.my ears! I am an officer in the Army! But it didn’t 17.as far as Dad was concerned，I was just 18.member of the team. I reached for the mop. Working for Dad has taught me the devotion to a19.is above all. It has nothing to do with20. that team is involved in a family restaurant or the US Army.
21.A．cleaning 
shining C．removing D．keeping
22.A．why what C．when D．how
23.A．offer refuse C．love D．learn
24.A．interested annoyed C．relaxed D．satisfied
25.A．fun pride C．trouble D．effort
26.A．got it right kept it a rule C．made
it clear D．took
it for granted
27.A．had tended C．hated D．managed
28.A．family workers C．customers D．friends
29.A．never always C．seldom D．ever
30.A．must should C．might D．could
31.A．at before C．around D．for
32.A．worked out found out
C．put out
D．thought out
33.A．alone away C．outside D．off
34.A．usual
last C．next D．first
35.A．washing
taking C．cleaning D．moving
36.A．ignore follow C．believe D．understand
37.A．happen care C．go D．matter
38.A．no other C．some D．another
39.A．team family C．leader D．restaurant
40.A．why whether C．when D．how
Some of the roads were flooded, _________ made our journey more difficult.
A. which B. it C. what D. that
Look! That fellow is too sleepy to work. He ______ up reading until midnight.
A. mustn't stay B. mustn't have stayed
C. ought not to stay D. should not have stayed
According to Lee, it was Ben’s carelessness that _______ the accident. But Ben _______ his wrong doing.
A. led to; got the hang of B. caused; got away from
C. accounted for; got away with D. resulted in; went away with
