People today expect to be examined when they enter a doctor's office. At least they expect their blood pressure and temperature to be measured. However, as recently as two hundred years ago, a doctor's treatment depended on talking with patients. In general, the communication between doctors and their patients was the most important part of medical methods. The modem age of medicine began with the stethoscope ,an instrument for listening to patients heartbeat and breathing. Before that, a doctor did not touch a patient. In fact, there was no such things as a medical examination.
The stethoscope──and all other medical instruments──-had a serious effect, on the practice of medicine. Doctors became better at finding the medical problems. More lives were saved. At the same time, doctors gave less importance to the communication between patients and doctors. Some doctors actually stopped talking to their patients. It is easy to understand why some sick people thought themselves as broken machines.
1. A stethoscope can be used to________.
A. check health conditions B. cure some illness
C. measure temperature D. treat heart disease
2. Doctors gave less importance to the communication between patients and doctors mainly because________.
A. modern medical instruments were used
B. they could cure more diseases and save more lives
C. they had much more medical experience than before
D. they were too busy to have time to talk with patients
3. Some sick people thought of themselves as broken machines, which suggested that_______.
A. modern doctors should treat their patients as machines
B. the level of the treatment was greatly improved
C. they thought they were useless just like broken machines
D. they were not satisfied with the manner in which doctors treated them
4. The best title for this passage should be________.
A. Medical Methods of Two Hundred Years Ago
B. The Development of Medical Methods
C. The Modem Age of Medicine
D. The Use of the Stethoscope
三、完型填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从31~50各题所给的四个选项（A、B 、C 、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
I am a teacher. Last Monday, at the beginning of class, I 31 asked my students how their weekend had been. A boy said that his weekend had not been so good. The boy then asked me 32 I always seemed to be so cheerful.
His question 33 me of something I’d read somewhere before, “Every morning when you 34 up, you have a 35 about how you want to face life that day.” I smiled and said to myself, “I choose to be cheerful.”
“Let me give you a(n) 36 ,” I said. “In addition to teaching here, I also teach in another college, 17 miles down the freeway from where I live. A few weeks ago, I 37 those 17 miles to the school. I only had to 38 another quarter mile to reach the school, but then my car 39 . I tried to start it again, but the engine wouldn’t start. So I took my 40 and walked to school.”
“As soon as I got there, I called AAA and arranged for a tow truck(拖车)to meet me at my car 41 class. The headmaster asked me what had happened. ‘This is my 42 day,’ I replied cheerfully. ‘Your car is broken and today is your lucky day?’ she was 43 . ‘What do you mean?’ ‘I live 17 miles from here,’ I replied. ‘My car could have broken down 44 along the freeway, but it didn't. 45 , it broke down in the perfect place: off the freeway and 46 walking distance from here. I’m still able to teach my class, and able to arrange for a tow truck to meet me.’ The headmaster’s eyes were 47 open and then she smiled.”
I 48 the faces in my class. Although it was the early hour, no one seemed to be 49 . My story had 50 them, or maybe it wasn’t the story at all.
31．A．anxiously B．angrily C．sadly D．cheerfully
32．A．why B．how C．that D．whether
33．A．warned B．told C．reminded D．thought
34．A．raise B．keep C．wash D．get
35．A．problem B．choice C．right D．chance
36．A．example B．answer C．story D．explanation
37．A．walked B．ran C．drove D．flew
38．A．stay B．repair C．run D．cover
39．A．burst B．died C．started D．hit
40．A．friends B．books C．ways D．students
41．A．after B．during C．before D．in
42．A．terrible B．great C．lucky D．special
43．A．surprised B．puzzled C．shocked D．amazed
44．A．somewhere B．everywhere C．nowhere D．anywhere
45．A．Instead B．Also C．Then D．Therefore
46．A．at B．within C．beyond D．off
47．A．hardly B．almost C．wide D．quite
48．A．watched B．saw C．made D．scanned
49．A．awake B．asleep C．alone D．cheerful
50．A．controlled B．defeated C．touched D．educated
It is strange that such a thing____ in your school.
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A．should happen |
B．would happen |
C．will happen |
D．happened |
In the Frick Collection you can also explore Frick’s beautiful home and garden which are_____ .
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A．very worth a visit |
B．well worth a visit |
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C．well worth being visited |
D．very worth visiting |
On her father’s death, she took the____ of a large house, but unfortunately she lost all her_____ including the house in the fire yesterday.
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A．possession; possession |
B．possessions; possession |
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C．possessions; possessions |
D．possession; possessions |
It shows that____ knowledge of first aid can make a real difference.
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A．a |
B．the |
C．one |
D．/ |
