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【題目】閱讀理解
CHICAGO- Have you ever worked on your laptop computer with it sitting on your lap, heating up your legs? If so, you might want to rethink that habit from now on. Doing it a lot can lead to “toasted skin syndrome (癥狀)”, an unusual-looking spotted skin condition caused by long-term heat exposure (暴露), according to medical reports.
In one recent case, a 12-year-old boy from California developed a skin discoloration on his left lap after playing computer games a few hours every day for several months. “He recognized that the laptop got hot on the left side; however, he did not change its position,” Swiss researches reported in an article published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
Another similar case is a Virginia law student who needed treatment for the spotted darkening on her leg. Dr. Kimberley Salkey, who treated the young woman, learned the student spent about six hours a day working with her computer placed on her lap. As Dr. Salkey later learnt, the temperature under the laptop could reach 51 degrees. That case, from 2007, is one of 10 laptop-related cases reported in medical journals in the past six years.
The condition can also be caused by overuse of heating pads (墊子) and other heat sources that usually aren’t hot enough to cause burns. It’s generally harmless but can also cause such permanent (永久的) skin darkening. In very rare cases, it can cause damage leading to skin cancers, said the Swiss researchers, Drs. Andreas Arnold and Peter Itin from University Hospital Basel. They do not mention any skin cancer cases linked to laptop use, but suggest, to be safe, placing a carrying case under the laptop if you have to hold it on your lap.
Dr. Kimberley Salkey said that under the microscope, the affected skin is similar to skin damaged by long-term sun exposure.
Major producers including Apple and Dell warn against placing laptops on laps or exposed skin for long periods of time because of the risks for burns. In the past, “toasted skin syndrome” has happened to workers whose jobs require being close to a heat source, including bakers and glass blowers, and in people who gathered near hot stoves to stay warm.
Dr. Anthony J. Mancini, chief at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, said that it’s unlikely that computer use would lead to cancer since it’s so easy to avoid close skin contact (接觸) with laptops.
（1）According to the passage, “toasted skin syndrome” can be caused by all the following
EXCEPT ______.
A.being close to a heat source or hot stoves
B.long period of direct contact to hot laptop
C.using one’s laptop with a carrying case
D.overuse of heating pad and other heat sources
（2）The underlined word “discoloration” in the 2nd paragraph refers to ______.
A.spot
B.darkening
C.sunburn
D.heat
（3）It can be learnt from the passage that laptop users ______.
A.should avoid close skin contact with laptops
B.are likely to develop a certain kind of cancer
C.have known much about the harm of laptop heating
D.should go to see the doctor at once
（4）Some computer producers warn against placing laptops on laps for long periods of time
because of ______.
A.the risk for burns
B.the risk of dropping
C.the risk of breaking
D.the protection of back bone
（5）Which of the following might be the best title of the passage? ______.
A.Laptop is Dangerous
B.Skin Damage is Possible
C.A Bad Habit
D.No laps for Warm Laptops

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）C
（2）B
（3）A
（4）A
（5）D
【解析】這是一則新聞報(bào)道，講述一種由于上時(shí)間在大腿上使用筆記本電腦而導(dǎo)致的“烤皮綜合癥”。
⑴細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段末提到的 caused by long-term heat exposure (暴露)可知烤皮綜合癥是皮膚長時(shí)間暴露在高溫下而引起的。A.靠近熱源或炙熱的火爐；B.長時(shí)間與很燙的筆記本電腦直接接觸；C，使用裝在盒子里的筆記本電腦；D，過度使用過熱的平板和其他熱源。四個(gè)選項(xiàng)與定義對比可知C不會(huì)造成“烤皮綜合癥”
⑵細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)句意：加利福尼亞的一個(gè)12歲男孩在連續(xù)幾個(gè)月每天玩幾個(gè)小時(shí)的電腦游戲之后形成了一種皮膚……。spot斑點(diǎn)；darkening變暗；sunburn曬傷；heat熱。結(jié)合下一段第一句Another similar case is a Virginia law student who needed treatment for the spotted darkening on her leg另外一個(gè)類似的病例是弗吉尼亞的一位學(xué)法律的學(xué)生，她的腿上的塊狀黑斑需要治療。所以選B。
⑶推理判斷。根據(jù)文章中描述烤皮綜合癥的形成原因可知筆記本電腦的使用者應(yīng)該避免把筆記本電腦直接放在靠近皮膚的地方。故選A。
⑷細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段Major producers including Apple and Dell warn against placing laptops on laps or exposed skin for long periods of time because of the risks for burns. 可知主要電腦制造商蘋果和戴爾警告不要把筆記本電腦上時(shí)間放在腿上因?yàn)橛袪C傷的危險(xiǎn)。故選A。
⑸主旨大意。Laptop is Dangerous筆記本電腦是危險(xiǎn)的；Skin Damage is Possible皮膚損壞是可能的；A Bad Habit一個(gè)壞習(xí)慣；No laps for Warm Laptops腿上不要放熱的筆記本電腦。根據(jù)文章的意思可知“烤皮綜合癥”是長時(shí)間把筆記本電腦放在腿上引起的，故選D。