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[单项选择]Last year, Sean Martinovich, from Whitianga, had life-saving surgery when a golf-sized tumor was removed from his brain stem. But the operation left half his face paralysed. He talked with a slur, sometimes dribbled out of the side of his mouth and could. not close his eye properly. Although he could run around with the other boys in the playground, when they laughed he could not laugh with them. Without a smile, he would suffer psychologically and emotionally.
Last week, 6-year-old Sean had seven hours of microsurgery that should give him back his smile. Doctor Bartlett removed a nerve from the back of one of Sean’s legs and transplanted it into his face, On the normal side of his face the nerve divides into lots of little branches. "We’ll cut those nerve branches and then we’ll take a nerve graft from one leg and tunnel it across his face from one side to the other end join that on to the nerve that’s been cut on the good side of his face," Doctor Bartlett said, before the opera
A. slur dribbled
B. without feeling or control of body muscles
C. unable to open one’s mouth
D. psychologically and emotionally disabled
[单项选择]It was until last year had he ( ).
A. left his hometown for a new start
B. came to realize the importance of learning English
C. worked as an English teacher at a middle school
D. set out to build a new house of his own
[填空题]Last year, researchers published new findings from the Women’s Health Initiative, a long-term study of more than 160000 midlife women. The data showed that multivitamin-takers are no (36) than those who don’t take the pills, at least when it comes to the big diseases-cancer, heart disease, and (37)
"Even women with poor diets weren’t helped by taking a multivitamin," says study author Marian Neuhouser, PhD, in the cancer (38) program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in Seattle.
Vitamin (39) came into fashion in the early 1900s, when it was difficult or impossible for most people to get a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables year-round. Back then, vitamin (40) diseases weren’t unheard-of: the bowed legs and (41) ribs caused by a severe shortage of vitamin D, or the skin problems and mental (42) caused by a lack of vitamin B.
But these days, you’re (43) unlike