英语四级备考笔记

英语四级备考笔记

　　Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:

　　Just seven years ago, the Jarvik-7 artificial heart was being cheered as the model of human creativeness. The sight of Barney Clark - alive and conscious after trading his diseased heart for a metal-and-plastic pump - convinced the press, the public and many doctors that the future had arrived. It hadnt. After monitoring production of the Jarvik-7, and reviewing its effects on the 150 or so patients the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded that the machine was doing more to endanger lives than to save them. Last week the agency cancelled its earlier approval, effectively banning the device.

　　注：1.cheer 欢呼、喝彩

　　2.convince 使 相信

　　3.monitor 监视

　　4.review 回顾

　　5.the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 美国食物药品管理局简写FDA

　　●成果型文章：

　　1.文章中只有一个成果，作者正评价

　　2.文中出现新、老两个成果，新成果正评，老成果负评，抓住正负评价原因

　　3.抓住新老成果各自技术特点

　　The recall may hurt Symbion Inc, maker of the Jarvik-7, but it wont end the request for an artificial heart. One problem with the banned model is that the tubes connecting it to an external power source created a passage for infection . Inventors are now working on new devices that would be fully placed, along with a tiny power pack, in the patients chest. The first sample products arent expected for another 10 or 20 years. But some people are already worrying that theyll work - and that Americas overextended health-care programs will lose a precious $2.5 billion to $5 billion a year providing them for a relatively few dying patients. If such expenditures cut into funding for more basic care, the net effect could actually be a decline in the nations health.

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