专题08 任务型阅读--2023-2024学年牛津上海版（试用本）八年级英语上学期期末备考

专题08 任务型阅读--2023-2024学年八年级英语上学期期末备考 牛津上海版（试用本） （2023上·上海长宁·八年级上海市延安初级中学校考期末）Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题) A day in the life of a heart surgeon I have been working at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge for the past 20 years. My day starts at 5:30, when I have two cups of black coffee while listening to the radio. Recently, I’ve been using the morning to work on a book I’m currently writing. I’ m in the hospital just before 8:00. If it’s a nice day, I’ll cycle the fifteen miles to my office, but my favourite way of getting to work is on my motorbike. My weekdays are divided into operating and non-operating days. Monday and Tuesday are my operating days and I like to come in early and stay late to check the progress of my patients. During the rest of the weekdays, I’m in clinics or doing research. On a typical operating day, I will conduct two to three operations. Some of the complex (复杂的) operations can take as long as ten to twelve hours. In certain cases, I think about them days, or even weeks, in advance. Last week, I had one of these cases which took a lot of thinking through beforehand. The patient was a young man who had a rare congenital heart abnormality (先天性心脏畸形). He needed an operation urgently, or he would die. I planned the operation in my head while at the dentist’s. Like many other doctors, I am always on call for my patients. When I do get to have some time to myself, I enjoy creating crossword puzzles (纵横填字游戏). I even make them for The Guardian (卫报) ! Answer the questions: 1．When did the author start to work at Papworth Hospital? 2．How far is it from the author’s home to the hospital? 3．What is the author’s favourite way of going to his office? 4．The author spends Wednesday to Friday in clinics or doing research, doesn’t he? 5．Why did the author think about the operation while he was at the dentist’s?