Nothing ventured,nothing gained教案
the christian church whose authority was complete on many matters opposed on dissection.cutting up dead animals to find out about their organs,and how these functioned was thought a disgusting thing to do,and to cut up a human body,even though dead,was thought to be evil.surgeons had to pay grave diggers to steal bodies for dissection.hunter once paid $7000 for the body of an eight-foot irishman whose skeleton can still be seen in the royal college of surgeon’s museum.to be a surgeon was thought so inferior an occupation that many operations were carried out by barbers.
but hunter continued with his experiments,at the time learning more about how our bodies worked,and he found new ways of operating on people so as to save both their limbs and their lives.if a man was brought to him with a bad tumor (腫瘤)on his leg,hunter did not,as most surgeons would have done,cut off his leg,but tried first to remove the tumor and treat the leg so that the leg might be saved.
9._________ we think is the most important of john hunter’s three advantages.
a.his brother’s occupation
b.a natural curiosity
c.lived in the country
d.strong and skillful hands
10.from the passage we guess that a barber was _________.
a.looked down upon at that time
b.looked up to at that time
c.regarded as equal to other occupations
d.not permitted to carry out operations
11.the word “dissection” from the context most nearly means ___________.
a.cutting something up into different parts under study
b.putting different parts of something together to cure the patient
c.operating on somebody without medical instruments
d.stealing dead bodies from graves to cut into pieces
12.from the last paragraph we can conclude that __________.
a.hunter continued with his experiments
b.hunter was learning more about how out bodies worked
c.hunter found new ways of operations
d.hunter was very conscientious and responsible
答案：9.d 從第一段中的“he had strong and skillful hands,so essential to a surgeon.”可知。
10.a 第三段最后一句的意思是“人們認為外科醫生的職業非常低賤（很少有人愿意從事此職業），因此很多手術都是由理發師來完成的”。look down upon“輕視，看不起”。
11.a 從第三段第二句中的“cutting up dead animals to find out about their organs,and how these functioned”可推斷出“dissection”的意思。
12.d 從最后一句可知，hunter是一位既敬業又負責的醫生。
ⅴ.短文改錯
此題要求改正所給短文的錯誤。對標有題號的每一行作出判斷:如無錯誤，在該行右邊橫線上畫一個（√）;如有錯誤（每行只有一個錯誤），則按情況改正: