2009年中级英语考试考试试卷(答案).docVIP

PAGE 第 PAGE 5 页 高化公司2009年中级任职资格外语考试试卷 英语 （120分钟内完成） 单位 ： 姓名： 题 号 一 二 三 总分 1 2 1 2 1-5 得 分 阅读理解（每题3分，共30分） 短文1（15分） Pain inflicted in infancy—including circumcision,needle sticks,and other procedures—may render children especially hypersensitive to pain in later life, researchers suggest. “Infants may ‘learn’ about pain through their early experiences and those ‘memories’ affect their future reactions to pain,” explain investigators led by Dr.Fran Lang Porter of Washington University School of Medicine St.in St.Louis,Missouri. Their findings are published in the August issue of The Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Until recently, most healthcare professionals assumed that the immature developing nervous systems of newborns and infants served to dull their sensitivity to physical pain. But “reserch over the 20 years has unequivocally shown that the newborn infan,whether born prematurely or at full term detects and responds to painful stimuli,” according to the investigators.They believe that pain experiences in early life “may have long-lasting effects on future pain behavior.” For example,one study found that low birth weight”preemie” babies were more likely to be sensitive to pain as adolescents than babies born at normal birth weight. This makes sense,the authors explain,because underweight babies kept in neonatal intensive care units are subject to many painful tests, including repeat diagnostic needle-pricks and other interventions. Neonatal pain may also impact on childhood psychology.Porter’s team points out that rats exposed to pain in infancy displayed “increased anxiety and defensive…behavior”as adults compared with unexposed rats,Likewise, “very low birth weight(human) babies ofen have more educational,psychological,behavioral and emotional difficulties…during school-age and adolescence as compared with their peers.” Questions: The people who are extremely sensitive to pain( B ). are quite