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1、職稱英語綜合類閱讀理解原文模擬第6篇1閱讀下面的短文。每篇短文的后面有五個問題,每個問題有四個 備選答案。請根據(jù)短文的內容選擇答案。每個試題計3分,共計15分Who Wants to Live Forever?If your doctor could give you a drug that would let you live a healthy life for twice as long f would you take it?The good news is that we may be drawing near to that date.Scientists have already
2、 extended the lives of flies , worms and mice in laboratories.Many now think that using genetic treatments we will soon be able to extend human life to at least 140 years.This seems a great idea.Think of how much more time we could spend chasing our dreams , spending time with our loved ones , watch
3、ing our families grow and have families of their own.11 Lon ger life would give us a cha nee to recover from our mistakes and promote long term thinking z “says Dr Gregory Stock of the University of California School of Public Health.nIt would also raise productivity by adding to the yearwe can work
4、.11Lon ger lives dorft just affect the people who live them.They also affect society as a whole.“We have war z poverty qII sorts of issues around Qnd I dont think any of them would be at all helped by having people live longer, says US bioethicist Daniel CallaharVThe question is What will we get as
5、a society? I suspect it wont be a better society.It would certainly be a very d iff ere nt society.People are already fin ding it more difficult to stay married.Divorce rates are rising.What would to marriage in a society where people lived for 140 years?And what would happen to family life if nine
6、or 10 gen eratio ns of the same family were all alive at the same time?Research into ageing may enable women to remain fertile for longer.And that raises the prospect of having 100-year-old parents z or brothers and sisters bom 50 years apart.We think of an eider sibli ng as some one who can protect
7、 us and offer help and advice.That would be hard to do if that sibling came from a completely different generation.Working life would also be affected , especially if the retire me nt age was lifted.More people would stay in work for longer.That would give us the benefits of age-skill # wisdom and g
8、ood judgement.On the other hand , more people worki ng for Ion ger would create greater competition forjobs.lt would make it more difficult for younger people to find a job.Top posts would be dominated by the same few individuals , making career progress more difficult.And how easily would a 25year-
9、old employee be able to communicate with a 125-year-old boss?Young people would be a smaller part of a society in which people lived to 140.lt may be that such a society would place less importanee on guiding and educating young people , and more on making life comfortable for the old.And society wo
10、uld feel very d iff ere nt if more of its members were older.There would be more wisdom , but less energy.Young people like to move about.Old people like to sit still.Yo ung people tend to act without thin king.Old people tend to think without acting.Young people are curious and like to experience d
11、ifferent things.Old people are less enthusiastic about change.In fact , they are less enthusiastic about everything.The effect of antiageing technology is deeper than we might think.But as the scienee advances , we need to think about these changes now.If this could ever happen,then wed better ask w
12、hat kind of society we want to get , says Daniel Callahan.nWe had better not go anywhere near it2 until we have figure those problems out.詞匯:mice/mals/n.老鼠(復數(shù))bioethicist/7aIE5WIsIst/n.生物倫理學家sibling/5sIblIN/n 兄弟姐妹注釋:1. brothers and sisters bor n 50 years a pa n 出生年份 才目隔50年的兄弟姐妹2. We had better not g
13、o anywhere near it 我們離它遠點,這里的it指代前面講的anti-ageing technologyo備注說明,非正文,實際使用可刪除如下部分。本內容僅給予閱讀編輯指點:1、本文件由微軟0阡ICE辦公軟件編輯而成,同時支持WPS。2、文件可重新編輯整理。3、建議結合本公司和個人的實際情況進行修正編輯。4、因編輯原因,部分文件文字有些微錯誤的,請自行修正,并不影響本文閱讀。Note: it is not the text. The following parts can be deleted for actual use. This con tent only gives readi ng and editing instructions:1. This document is edited by Microsoft office office software and supports WPS2. The files can be edited and reorganized3. It is suggested to revise and edit accord
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