7 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

It was 40 years ago. One day, Emma came back to their apartment from work and realized that her husband, David, was extremely ill. He was throwing up and slurring (发音不清) his words. Immediately, Emma grabbed her purse and took him by taxi to the nearest hospital, on the Lower East Side of New York City. The minutes slowly passed as they waited to see a doctor.

They sat there for a couple of hours, and it was pretty clear that nobody was going to pay attention to David. So they rushed to a second hospital, where they were also ignored. Emma knew something was very wrong with David, so they went to a third hospital. As she told the receptionist what was happening, Emma sensed the person wasn’t going to treat their case with urgency.

Emma was on the edge of a breakdown. After three failed attempts to get help, she had reached her limit. She started to shout in the lobby (大厅). That’s when her unsung hero appeared.

That person was a young man with dark hair and a white physician’s coat. He came to Emma and said, “How can I help you? What’s going on here?” Emma explained what was happening to David, and that she was afraid it was serious.

The young man said, “You know, I just got done with my neurological residency (神经系统的实习期) up at Lenox Hill Hospital. I’ll take him in the back and look.” Within two or three minutes, the young man came out and said, “You are absolutely right. Something is very seriously wrong with your husband.”

The man told Emma to take her husband to Lenox Hill Hospital, and that he had called the doctor with whom he had done his residency.

“He’ll be waiting for you,” said the young man.

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But Emma began to cry, realizing she had no way of getting there, because she didn’t have any more cash for a taxi.

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Soon Emma and her husband arrived at the hospital.

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8 . A small study published Wednesday documents significantly restored hearing in five of six kids treated in China. “Hearing loss is hard to recover. That’s why we were always trying to develop a therapy (疗法),” said Zheng-Yi Chen, a senior author of the study.

Globally, 34 million children have deafness or hearing loss, and genes are responsible for up to 60% of cases.

All the children in the experiments have a condition that accounts for 2% to 8% of inherited (遗传的) deafness. It’s caused by mutations (变异) in a gene responsible for an inner ear protein called otoferlin, which helps hair cells transmit sound to the brain.

The therapy of Chen’s team delivers a functional copy of that gene to the inner ear during a surgery. It caused no major side effects. They observed the children for about six months and captured patients’ progress in videos. One shows a little girl 13 weeks after treatment repeating father, mother, grandmother, sister and “I love you.” They don’t know why the treatment didn’t work in one of them. But the five others, who previously had complete deafness, can now hear a regular conversation and talk with others.

Prior results from other researches have been just as positive. The Philadelphia hospital reported that their patient, Aissam Dam, is now able to hear his father’s voice and cars on the road. Dr. John Germiller, who led the research in Philadelphia said, “His hearing is improved from a state of complete deafness with no sound at all to the level of mild hearing loss.”

Columbia University’s Dr. Lawrence Lustig said, “Although the children in these studies don’t wind up with perfect hearing, even a mild hearing loss recovery in these kids is pretty astonishing.” Still, he added, “Many questions remain, such as how long the therapies will last and whether hearing will continue to improve in the kids.”

1. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．The result of Chen’s therapy.	B．The impact of gene mutations.
C．The trouble of curing hearing loss.	D．The analysis of children’s deafness.

2. What do most participants in the two researches have in common?

A．They showed positive response to the therapy.	B．Their power of speech was partially regained.
C．Their improvements were recorded by videos.	D．They had mild hearing loss after the treatment.

3. What is Dr. Lawrence Lustig’s attitude toward the therapy?

A．Dismissive.

B．Objective.

C．Doubtful.

D．Unclear.

4. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A．Gene Therapy: A Hope for the Deaf

B．Deaf Children: A Concern of Society

C．Chen’s Research: A Breakthrough in Surgery

D．Inherited Deafness: A Challenge for Treatment

9 . Gamba has a lifelong fear of dentists. “It was much easier to accept the toothache,” he says.

    1    , there are times when you have to seek proper dental care. Fortunately, many dentists are specially trained in handling fearful patients. A variety of methods are also available to reduce pain and fear when you are in the dentist’s chair.

The best dentists use simple methods to create a feeling of control. They gently explain what the patient will feel, and for about how long. They frequently ask the patient for permission to continue.    2    . Their working places are barely recognizable as a dentist’s office. Free of posters showing the horrors of dental diseases, some even have a fireplace in the waiting room and some have a treatment room overlooking a waterfall.     3    , your body may still fear that chair. Here are some tips that may help you:

➢   Go to the dentist with someone you trust, such as a close relative who has no fear of dentists. If possible, ask him/her to sit with you during the treatment.
➢       4    . Listen to your own music on headphones — a new CD, not one you’ve heard a lot, so you’ll be a little more interested in it. Or find a dental clinic with a TV in the treatment room.
➢   Try relaxation techniques. Controlled breathing — I taking a big breath, holding it, and letting it out slowly — will slow your heartbeat and relax your muscles.

As the pain from Gamba’s wisdom teeth worsened, he found support online through a forum for people with dental fear. He also found a dentist, who advertises his skill with fearful patients. “    5    ,” Gamba says before going. But the dentist put him so at ease that he agreed to receive treatment right away. And it was painless, he says.

A．Add your favorite songs to the playlist

B．Shift attention while in the dentist’s chair

C．It wouldn’t be possible without the dentists’ support

D．I convinced myself that I was just going to talk with the dentist

E．Even if your mind tells you you’ll be just fine in such circumstances

F．Although you would never look forward to a spell in the dentist’s chair

G．Some dentists even go out of their way to create a nonthreatening environment