职称英语理工类b级阅读理解经典练习题(5)

　　Kidney Disease and Heart Disease Spur Each Other 　　The work, from two studies involving over 50,000 patients, promises to boost efforts to diagnose simmering kidney disease earlier. All it takes are urine and blood tests that cost less than $ 25, something proponents want to become as routine as cholesterol checks. 2 The average patient knows their cholesterol,says Dr. Peter McCullough, preventive medicine chief at Michigans William Beaumont Hospital. The average patient has no idea of3 their kidney function. 　　And while CKD patients often are terrified of having to go on dialysis, the hard truth is that most will die of heart disease before their kidneys disintegrate to that point, something kidney specialists have recognized for several years but isnt widely known, s Indeed, the new research is highlighted in this months Archives of Internal Medicine with a call for doctors who care for heart patients to start rigorously checking out the kidneys, and for better care of early kidney disease. 7 　　The odds of having heart disease rose steadily as each of the kidney markers worsened. More striking was the death data. At this age, few deaths are expected, and indeed just 191 people died during the study period. But those who had both CKD and known heart disease had a threefold increased risk of death in a mere 2 1p 　　练习： 　　A By cholesterol checks. 　　C By keeping a close eye on ones kidneys. 　　2. How many Americans suffer chronic kidney disease according to an estimation? 　　B 400,000. 　　D 37,000. 　　A 400,000. 　　C 200,000. 　　4. What did the Archives of Internal Medicine call for doctors caring for heart patients to do? 　　B To have their patients chests X-ra Yed regularly. 　　D To start rigorously checking out their patients kidneys. 　　A Levels of the protein albumin in the urine. 　　C The rate at which kidneys filter blood. 　　答案与题解 　　1．B 第二段第一、二句说到，加速慢性肾病的诊断所使用的方法就是尿检和血检，故B项为正确答案。 　　3．D 第三段最后一句说．终末期肾衰竭病人数日迅速增加，有40万人需要肾透析或肾移植才能存活．这个数字在近20年小每10年翻一番。按此计算，10年前应为20万人，20年前就应是10万人，故正确答案应为1)。 　　5.B 第五段倒数第二句列㈩了肾功能的三个标志物．选项C、A、D均包括在内，唯独没有B项，故B项是本题答案。