Question

    Jim suffered heart problems. In conversation he expressed little joy and it seemed that his life was drawing to a close.

    When his heart problems led to operation, Jim went through it successfully, and a full recovery was expected. Within days, however, his heart was not beating properly. Jim was rushed back to operation, but nothing was found to explain the cause of his illness. He died on the operating table on the day before his 48th birthday.

    Dr. Bruce Smaller, a psychologist (心理學家), had had many conversations with him, and the more he learned, the stranger he realized Jim’s case was. When Jim was a child, his father, a teacher, suffered a heart attack and stayed home to recover. One morning Jim asked his father to look over his homework, promising to come home from school at noon to pick it up. His father agreed, but when Jim returned his father had died. Jim’s father was 48.

    “I think all his life Jim believed he killed his father，” Dr. Smoller says.“He felt that if he had not asked him to, too. at his homework，his father would have lived. Jim had been troubled by the idea. The operation was the trial(判決) he had expected for forty years.” Smoller believes that Jim willed himself not to live to the age of 48.

    Jim’s case shows the powerful role that attitude (態度) plays m physical health, and that childhood experiences produce far-reaching effect on the health of grown-ups. Although most cases are less direct than Jim’s, studies show that childhood events, besides genes, may well cause such midlife diseases as cancer, heart disease and mental illness.

59. Jim was sent back to operation because__________.

A. his heart didn’t work well                                    B. he expected a full recovery

C. his life was drawing to a close                              D. the first one wasn’t well performed

60. What made Dr. Smaller feel strange about Jim’s case?

A. Jim died at a young age.                                      B. Jim died on the operating table.

C. Both Jim and his father died of the same disease.   

D. Jim’s death is closely connected with his father’s.

61. From Smoller’s words, we can infer that__________.

A. Jim’s father cared little about his study           B. Smoller agreed that Jim did kill his father

C. Jim thought he would be punished some day   D. Smoller believed Jim wouldn’t live to the age of 48

62. Which of the following could have strong effect on one’s physical health according to the text?

a. One’s genes. b. One’s life in childhood. c. One’s physical education. d. The date of one’s birthday. e. The opinions one has about something.

A. a, b, d          B. a, b, e            C. a, c, e          D b, c, d

Answer 1

59---62   ADCB     

解析:

 59. A

解析：這是一道細節推斷題。根據第二段“Within days,however,his heart was not beating properly.Jim was rushed back to operation”可知手術后Jim的心臟跳動不正常，所以再次手術。

60. D

解析：這是一道歸納題。從第三段和第四段可以分析出，Jim一直認為自己導致了父親的死，所以他認為也只能活到48歲，Jim的死和他父親的死有很大關系，這點讓Smoller教授感到吃驚。

61. C

解析：這是一道推理題。根據第四段“Jim had been troubled by the idea. The operation was the trial he had expected for forty years.”可知這個手術是Jim等待了40年的判決，也就是說Jim一直認為自己殺死了父親，會受到懲罰。

62. B

解析：這是一道歸納題。根據最后一段“Jim’s case shows the powerful role that attitude plays in physical health...studies show that childhood events, besides genes, may well cause such midlife diseases as cancer, heart disease and mental illness.”可知影響身體狀況的有3個因素：態度、童年時期的事情和基因。