2014年12月英语六级选词填空模拟试题

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2014年12月英语六级选词填空模拟试题

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

Basic health interventions may significantly reduce

deaths among young children with sickle cell anemia ( 镰状细胞血症) The illness causes the body to produce sickle or disc

shaped red blood cells making it difficult for them to

(36)______oxygen from the lungs. The number of newborns

with the inherited blood disease is increasing, (37)______ in

sub-Saharan Africa

A new study in PLOS Medicine says by 2050 over

400-thousand babies will be born every year with sickle cell

anemia Sherry Webb is given an (38)______for pain relief by a

nurse at the Sickle Cell Center in Truman Medical Center,

Wednesday, March 7, 2007 in Kansas City. Pain management

is vital in the care of patients (39)______ from Sickle Cell

disease. That's an increase of about 100-thousand per

year. Most of those births will occur in Nigeria, Democratic 2

Republic of Congo and India The three countries (40) ______ for

75 percent of sickle cell newborns in 2010. Dr. Frederic Piel

led the research by the University of Oxford in Kenya

"It's a genetic disorder and if you (41)______one copy of

the gene from one of your parents, you don't have any

symptoms and you're called a (42)______or a heterozygote

individual. If you inherit two copies from your parents, then

you have sickle cell anemia, which is quite(43)______and lethal

in countries where there is no treatment (44) ______," he said

It was initially limited to malaria endemic areas, but

because of population (45) ______it's now common in many

other parts of the world So this is clearly a global burden and

it's going to increase.

A. accounted

B. inherit

C. several

D. available

E. enlargement

F. transport

G. experiment

H. carder 3

I. suffering

J. send

K. injection

L. possible

M. movement

N. especially

O. severe

基本的健康干预能大大降低幼儿镰状细胞性贫血的死亡率。这种疾病会导致身体产生镰刀或者碟状的血红细胞,致使氧气很难从肺部(36) 传送出去。(37)尤其是在撒哈拉以南的非洲地区,遗传到这种疾病的新生儿数量正在增加。

美国科学公共图书馆医学杂志上的一项新的研究表明:到2050年,每年有超过40万婴儿生来就有镰状细胞性贫血。杜鲁门医学中心的护士就曾经在2007年三月七日在堪萨斯市给雪莉.韦伯(38) 注射缓解其疼痛。疼痛管理对于(39) 罹患镰状细胞性贫血的病人护理方面至关重要。每年有10万新增病例。其中大部分孩子都来自阿尔及利亚、刚果民主共和国和印度。这三个国家(40) 占了2010年患病新生儿的75%。肯尼亚牛津大学的弗雷德里克 皮尔博士主导进行了这项研究。

他说, “这是一种遗传混乱现象。如果你从父母身上(41) 继承了一组基因,你不会有任何的症状,只被称为(42) 携带者异形接合体人。如果你集成了两组基因,那么你就是镰状细胞性贫血患者,4

那在没有治疗(44) 条件的国家 就是很(43) 严重和致命的疾病。”

开始,这种病只是在疟疾盛行的地方,但因为人口(45) 流动,现在也在世界其它地方普遍起来。所以,这种疾病显而易见已经是世界的负担并且有增长的趋势。

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