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大单元限时评估卷(三)
UNIT 5
(时间:100分钟 分值:120分)
Ⅰ. 阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)
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Jennifer Toth, who survived cancer as a child, is now a nurse at the hospital that helped save her life.
Toth was diagnosed (诊断) with hepatoblastoma (肝母细胞瘤) when she was just 2 years old. No signs showed that anything was wrong with Toth until early 1995 when her mother felt a lump on her stomach. Her parents took her to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where scans showed she had a tumour (肿瘤) the size of a softball on her liver.
Hepatoblastoma is a tumour that begins in the liver and is usually found in children up to three years old. It is a rare form of cancer, affecting fewer than one in a million children, according to St Jude Children's Research Hospital. The exact cause is unknown. The survival rate is 80 percent if the tumour does not spread, and it can be removed following chemotherapy (化疗). If the entire liver is affected, then patients may need a liver transplant.
Toth's tumour was too large to remove so she went through six months of chemotherapy first. Luckily, after a few years of treatment at Children's Hospital, Toth was declared cancerfree.
Later she was awarded a college scholarship for cancer survivors, spending four years at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing.
Now, Toth is working as a nurse at that very same hospital. She told a news agency that she didn't hide the fact that she was a cancer survivor. “I always thought that it would be amazing to come full circle and work at the same hospital where I had been a patient,” Toth said. “I hope that my experience as a patient and survivor shapes my nursing practice in a way that conveys (传递) deep sympathy and understanding.”
【语篇解读】本文是一篇新闻报道。短文报道了Toth在她两岁的时候被诊断为肝母细胞瘤。幸运的是,在儿童医院接受了几年治疗后,Toth被宣布癌症痊愈。大学毕业之后Toth选择回到挽救她生命的儿童医院工作,希望自己既是病人又是幸存者的经历能向病人传递深深的同情和理解。
1. What can we know about hepatoblastoma from the passage?
A. The cause of it has been found out without any risk.
B. Patie