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The idea of test-tube babies may make you either delighted at the wonders of modern medicine or irritated while considering the moral, or legal, or technological implications of starting life in a laboratory. But if you’’ve ever been pregnant yourself, one thing is certain: You wonder what it’’s like to carry a test-tube baby. Are these pregnancies normal Are the babies normal The earliest answers come from Australia, where a group of medical experts at the Queen Victoria Medical Center in Melbourne have taken a look at the continent’’s first nine successful invitro pregnancies. The Australians report that the pregnancies themselves seemed to have proceeded according to plan, but at birth some unusual trends did show up. Seven of the nine babies turned out to be girls. Six of the nine were delivered by Caesarean section. And one baby, a twin, was born with a serious heart defect and a few days later developed life-threatening problems.What does it all mean Even the doctors don’’t know for sure, because the numbers are so small. The proportion of girls to boys is high, but until there are many more test-tube babies no one will know whether that’’s something that just happened to be like that or something special that happens when egg meets sperm in a test tube instead of a fallopian tube. The same thing is true of the single heart defect. It usually shows up in only 15 out of 60,000 births in that part of Australia, but the fact that it occurred in one out of nine test-tube babies does not necessarily mean that they are at special risk. One thing the doctors can explain is the high number of Caesareans. Most of the mothers were older, had long histories of fertility problems and in some cases had had surgery on the fallopian tubes, all of which made them likely candidates for Caesareans anyway.The Australian researchers report that they are quite encouraged. All the babies are now making normal progress, even the twin with the birth defects.

What does the word "invitro" in Paragraph 2 most probably mean

A.Normal.

B.Test-tube.

C.Built-in.

D.Formal.

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参考答案:B

解析:词义题型。invitro在活体外部的,在人造环境内。而且本文探讨的是试管婴儿,根据上下文可推断出invitro的含义。

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The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became infuriated(愤怒的) when the child tried to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree. Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, "This is for you, Daddy."

The man was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his anger flared again when he found out the box was empty. He yelled at her, stating, "Don't you know, when you give someone a present, there is supposed to be something inside? The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and cried, "Oh, Daddy, it's not empty at all. I blew kisses into the box. They're all for you, Daddy."

The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her forgiveness.

Only a short time later, an accident took the life of the child. It is also told that her father kept that gold box by his bed for many years and, whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.

In a very real sense, each one of us, as humans beings, have been given a gold container filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family members, friends, and God. There is simply no other possession, anyone could hold, more precious than this.

小题1:The 3-year-old girl was punished by her father for ________.

A.wasting gold

B.wasting wrapping paper

C.putting the box under the Christmas tree

D.bringing the gift to her father小题2:What’s inside the box according to the little girl?

A.nothing

B.air

C.kisses

D.gold wrapping paper小题3:The father remembered the love of his daughter by ________.

A.kissing the gold box.

B.putting gold into the box.

C.taking out an imaginary kiss from the box.

D.keeping the little girl’s ash box by his bed.小题4:Choose the best title for the passage.

A.The kisses in the box.

B.A girl and his father

C. A love story

D.The box under the Christmas tree.

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