2017届北京市高考英语一轮复习综合练习：69 （含解析）_高考复习指南

2017届北京市高考英语一轮复习综合练习：69 （含解析）

　　62．What's the main idea of the last paragraph?

　　A．Americans value time more than any other culture．

　　B．Americans should be understood by other cultures．

　　C．Communication between cultures is easier than before．

　　D．Harmony should be achieved despite cultural differences．A woman in the US is able to speak for the first time in 11 years after a pioneering voice box transplant （）．

　　Brenda Jensen said the operation was a great success which had saved her life．Thirteen days after the surgery she said her first words: "Good morning, I want to go home．"It is the first time a voice box and windpipe have been transplanted at the same time and only the second time a voice box has ever been transplanted．

　　Ms．Jensen, 52, had been unable to speak on her own since her voice box was damaged during surgery in 1999．Since then, she has been unable to taste or smell food, could breathe only through a hole in her windpipe and could talk only with the help of an electronic voice box．

　　In October, surgeons at the University of California Davis Medical Centre removed the voice box and 6cm of the windpipe from a donor body．In an 18-hour operation, this was transplanted into Ms．Jensen's throat and the team connected it to her blood supply and nerves ）．

　　Professor Martin Birchall from University College London, who was part of the surgery team, said: "We've learned that we can repair nerves to make even very complex organs function again． It'll open the door to better facial transplants and will be extremely important as tissue engineering develops．"