2013高考英语108所名校试题中(阅读表达)汇编(5)(答案)

第一节 阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上（请注意问题后的词数要求）。 Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.

"I think we are knocking at the door of live longer,' said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. "I think by 2075 we will and that's a conservative estimate (保守的估计)." At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology (纳米技术) make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. "There is a great push so that people can live from I20 to 180 years," he said. However, many scientists who specialize in ageing are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to live past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.

Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. "It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?" said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre. "At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all."

76.What is the main idea of the passage?(no more than 10 words) ____________________________________________________________________ 77.Please fill in the blanks in the second paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence(no more than 10 words) _____________________________________________________________________

78.What did Leonard Poon worry about? (no more than 15 words)

_____________________________________________________________________ 79.What does the word “it”(Line1,Paragraph4)probably refer to? (no more than 8 words)