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题型组合提升练三 班级: 姓名: 得分: Ⅰ.阅读理解 On January 7, David Bennett went into the operating room at the University of Maryland Medical Center for a surgical procedure never performed before on a human. The 57-year-old Maryland resident had been hospitalized for months due to a life threatening disease. His heart was failing him and he needed a new one. Bennett􀆳s condition left him unresponsive to treatment and ineligible (不 合 格 ) for the transplant list or an artificial heart pump. The physician-scientists at the center, however, had another also risky-option: transplant (移植) a heart from a geneticaly-modified pig. “It was either die or do this transplant,” Bennett had told surgeons a day before the operation. “I want to live. I know it􀆳s a shot in the dark, but it􀆳s also my last choice.” It took the medical team eight hours to finish the operation, making Bennett the first human to successfuly receive a pig􀆳s heart. “It􀆳s working and it looks normal. We are thriled, but we don􀆳t know what tomorrow wil bring us. This has never been done before,” Barkley Griffith, who led the transplant team, told the New York Times. While it􀆳s only been five days since the operation, the surgeons say that Bennett􀆳s new pig heart was, so far, functioning as expected and his body wasn􀆳t rejecting (排斥) the organ. They are stil monitoring his condition closely. “I think it􀆳s extremely exciting,” says Robert Montgomery, transplant surgeon and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, who was not involved in Be