高三英语阅读训练15.doc

高三英语阅读训练（十五）ONCE again, I was in new school. 36 was a girl in my class named Paris. Thats where the similarities 37 . I was tall and she was small. I was one of the 38 in the class while she was the youngest. I was awkward and shy. She wasnt. I couldnt stand her, considering her my 39 . 40 she wanted to be friends.One day, she invited me 41 and I said yes I was too shocked to say no42 no one had invited me over to play beforeBut this girl, who wore the 43 fashions, wanted to see meShe lived on the fourth floor in a two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister- When we got to the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies which was my next 44 I would have thought shed outgrown themI had 45 played with themBut we sat on the floor of a walk-in cupboard laughing as we 46 crazy stories about the BarbiesThats when we found out that we both wanted to be 47 when we were olderWe both had wild 48 We had a great day that afternoonOur jaws （下巴） 49 from smiling so muchShe showed me her 50 , which had mostly come from a designer clothing store （时装设计店） down the blockThe woman who owned it used her as a 51 sometimes for her newspaper ads and gave her clothes in exchangeParis had the whole 52 charmedThe bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines, the 53_ gave her free passes and the pizza place let her have free piecesSoon I was 54 in her magic worldWe slept over at each others houses, spent every free moment togetherMy dark hair grew out and I learned to love being tallParis, my first real friend since childhood, helped me get through the 55 teenage years and taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends: your worst enemy can turn out to be your best friend36AIt BSo CShe DI37Aended Bstarted Ccame Dbegan38Ayoungest Bshortest Coldest Dtallest39Aenemy Bfriend Csister Drival40AAnd BBut CSo DOr 41Aoff Bup Cover Din42AHowever BActually CTherefore DBesides43Amodem Bnew Clate Dlatest44Asurprise Bjoy Cdelight Dhappiness 45Aonce Bever Cnever Dyet 46Amade for Bmade up Cput up Dmade into 47Awriters Bsingers Cdancers Ddesigners48Alaugh Bimaginations Cbehaviors Dexperience49Aharmed Bached Cinjured Dwounded50Abooks Bpaintings Cfood Doutfits 51Awriter Boutfits Cmodel Dexchange52Afamily Bneighborhood Cclass Dschool53Acolleges Bclothing stores Crestaurant Dmovie theater54Aattracted Bdrawn Cincluded Dattached55Atough Bhappy Ccolorful DrichHolding a cell phone against your ear or stalling it in your pocket may be hazardous to your healthThis paraphrases a warning that cell phone; manufacturers include in the small print that is often tossed aside when a new phone is purchasedApple, for example, doesnt want iPhones to come closer to you than 15 centimeters; Research In Motion, Blackberrys manufacturer, recommends 2.5 centimeters If health issues arise from cell phone use, the implications are hugeVoice calls - Americans chat on cell phones 226 trillion minutes annually - generate $109 billion for the wireless carriersDevra Davis, an epidemiologist who has worked for the University of Pittsburgh, has published a book about cellphone radiation, Disconnect. The book surveys scientific research and concludes the question is not settled.Brain cancer is a concern that Ms. Davis examines. Over all, there has not been an increase in its incidence since cellphones arrived. But the average masks an increase in brain cancer in the 20-to-29 age group and a drop for the older population.Most cancers have multiple causes, she says, but she points to laboratory research that suggests low-energy radiation could damage cells that could possibly lead to cancer.Children are more vulnerable to radiation than adults, Ms. Davis and other scientists point out. Radiation that penetrates only five centimeters into the brain of an adult will reach much deeper into the brains of children because their skulls are thinner and their brains contain more absorptive fluid. No studies have yet been completed on cellphone radiation and children, she says.Henry Lai, a research professor in the bioengineering department at the University of Washington, began laboratory radiation studies in 1980 and found that rats exposed to radiofrequency radiation had damaged DNA in their brains.Ms. Davis recommends using wired headsets or the phones speaker. Children should text rather than call, she said, and pregnant women should keep phones away from the abdomen.60We can infer from the passage that_ACell phone may do harm to our health if we hold it against our ear or store in our pocketBDevra Davis thinks that there are many factors contributing to cancerCThe increase in brain cancer in the young adults may have something to do with cell phoneDChildren are more likely to be affected by radiation61According to the passage, how could children avoid being hurt by cell phone radiation?AThey can keep cell phones away from the abdomenBThey can send short massage instead of making phone calls directlyCThey can pay more attention to the small print on the phoneDThey should use more advanced cell phones62From this passage we can learn that_AAmerican cell phone manufacturers did not give any warning to their customersBAmerican cell phone manufacturers benefit greatly from their productsCScientists have found the connection between brain cancer and ceil phoneDCell phone should be banned because of the increase in brain cancer63In which column can we most probably read this passage?AAdvanced technology BEntertainmentCScience and life DCelebrityHealth researchers have noticed that some groups of people are more consistently healthy than others, and wondered Is it race? Income? Where you live? In the United States, these disagreements in health outcomes have been the focus of intense research for the past several decades.Harvard University health policy researcher Ellen Meara says scholars have found some clues as to why some groups of people have more or less disease than others. She says one important factor in peoples health is the amount of education they have.In her most recent paper, Meara looked at data from the United states census. These counts of people occur every 10 years. Meara and her colleagues examined data from several decades. “We looked at life expectancy(预测寿命) at age 25,” Meara says.“How many additional years can you expect to live if you arrive at age 25 and your education has stopped at high school, or sooner? Versus how many years, can you expect to live if youve reached aged 25 and youve gone on to at least some college”Meara says they found that in 1990, a 25-year-old who only had some secondary school could expect to live for a total of 75 years. In 2000, a 25-year-old with some secondary education could also expect to live to the age of 75.In contrast, for a better educated 25-year-old, they could expect to live to the age of 80 in 1990. Someone with a similar education level in the year 2000, could expect to live to be more than 81 years, 81.6 years to be exact.Meara says, not only do better-educated people live longer to begin with, but in the past ten years, more educated people have made gains in the length of their lives. Meanwhile, the life expectancy hasnt changed for less educated people.Some of these gains can be explained. Meara says researchers know that people who are more educated are more likely to quit smoking cigarettes, or not start at all, compared to people with less education.“I think its a reminder not to be satisfactory,” Meara says. “Just because a population overall appears to be getting healthier, it doesnt always mean that those advantages and successes that many people have enjoyed really extend into all parts of the population. And I think thats something to really pay attention to regardless of whether you live in the US or elsewhere.”Meara points out that education can often determine income-people with more education frequently make more money. This makes them aware of health care, and purchase other resources and services that can keep them healthier. But the data on income do NOT show that people who make more mo