2016届高考英语阶段效果检测：20（含解析）_高考复习指南

2016届高考英语阶段效果检测：20（含解析）

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　　A team of more than 30 surgeons and nurses worked for about 15 hours to transplant the forehead, nose, lips, facial skin, underlying muscles and the nerves that power them and provide sensation(知觉)from a donor to Wiens, whose head came in contacted with a high-voltage line on Nov. 13, 2008.

　　Bohdan Pomahac, the surgeon, said the team was not able to bring back Wiens’s eyesight. But Wiens should be able to regain up to 90 percent of normal sensation on the right side of his forehead, right cheek, most of his upper lip and his entire lower lip. “Nerve damage was too great for there to be more than tiny sensation in the left cheek and left forehead, ” Pomahac said.

　　Doctors say the goal of the operation was to improve Wiens’s ability to breathe, eat, talk and restore his face’s social expression.

　　“When Wiens recovers, he will not look like he once did, nor will he look like the donor, but probably somewhere in the middle, ” Pomahac said. The match between the donor and the recipient(接受者)was made based on race, similar age and blood type, etc. .

　　Pomahac said he was worried the operation would not be successful when he first saw Wiens. His injuries were covering so large that doctors weren’t sure there were enough remaining nerves or structures to connect to a new face.

　　Pomahac said he was determined to try his best because of what a patient with similar injuries had told him some years ago. That patient had numerous surgeries(外科手术), with only modest results. When Pomahac asked why the patient sought repeated surgeries, he told the doctor,