SANTO DOMINGO, Domincan Republic ---An infant girl born with a second head bled to death Saturday after complex surgery (外科手術(shù)) to remove her partially formed twin , her parents and doctors said.
A medical team completed the 11- hour operation Friday night and said 8-week-old Rebecca Martinez died seven hours later. Doctors had warned after the surgery that the girl would be at great risk of death.
“ We knew this was a very risky surgery , and now we accept what God has decided , “ Rebecca’s father , 29-year-old Frankin Martinez, said at a news conference with his wife. “ Rebecca is no longer with us physically , but no one will forget her.”
Martinez said the family would bury Rebecca in a private funeral later in the day.
The girl lost a lot of blood in the operation, which apparently ( 明顯地) caused her to suffer a heart attack , said Dr. Jorge Lazareff , the lead surgeon . Friends and family donated (捐贈(zèng)) almost 4 gallons of blood for surgeons to use Rebeca’s operation
“This was not a failure or an error ,” Lazareff said . “ When we left here last night the girl was in stable condition. At some point in the middle of the night , she started to bleed.”
Rebecca was born Dec. 10 with the undeveloped head of her twin, an exteremely rare condition known as craniopagus parasticus . Rebecca was the eighth documented case in the world of craniopagus parasiticus, doctors said.
All the other infants documented to have had the condition died before birth , making Rebecca\s surgery the first known operation of its kind.
Without an operation , Rebecca would have barely been able to lift her head at 3 months old. Her doctors said the pressure from the second head would have prevented her brain from developing.
“ We always saw Rebecca without the extra part of her body, ”er father said after her death.
Rebecca was their third child-----along with a 4-year-old boy and a 1-year-old girl.
小題1:The underlined word “infant “ most probably means____________________.
A．a(chǎn) disabled child
B．a(chǎn) newly-born child
C．a(chǎn) 2-headed child
D．a(chǎn) very young child
小題2: Rebecca Martinez died ________________________after she went to the operation table.
A．8 weeksB．11 hoursC．7 hoursD．18 hours
小題3: Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the text?
A．Rebecca died because mistakes happened during the operation
B．Rebecca most probably died of bleeding
C．Rebecca was her parents’ third child
D．Without an operation , Rebecca would have little hope of living
小題4: Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?
A．Infant Girl Dies After 2nd Head Removed
B．Rebecca , Hiciano’s Third Child
C．The Death of a Gril With two Heads
D．Rebecca’s Surgery, the First Known Operation

小題1:D
小題2:D
小題3:A
小題4:A

小題1:詞義理解題。四個(gè)選項(xiàng)似乎都正確，但是根據(jù)下文“with a second head ”可以排除C 項(xiàng)。 11個(gè)月大的幼兒不應(yīng)該算newly-born child，所以排除B項(xiàng)。 A項(xiàng)“殘疾”和D 項(xiàng)“幼兒”比較之后，可以發(fā)現(xiàn)A項(xiàng)其實(shí)仍舊屬于對(duì)Rebecca 的重復(fù)形容，所以最后選擇D項(xiàng)。infant意為“嬰兒，幼兒”。
小題2: 計(jì)算推理題。根據(jù)第二段，既然手術(shù)持續(xù)11個(gè)小時(shí)，那么“died seven hours later”就是在這11 小時(shí)之后，所以選擇D項(xiàng)。
小題3:辨別是非題。根據(jù)第六段可知A項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤。其它各項(xiàng)文中都有相關(guān)的表述。
小題4:概括歸納題。這篇新聞報(bào)道的主題詞應(yīng)該是：手頭女?huà)胧中g(shù)后死亡。
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