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Now some diseases can’t be cured, but they may be cured sometime in the future. So some people hope that their bodies can be frozen after they die. liquid nitrogen(液态氮) at a temperature of 328 degrees below zero.

Now around a thousand people are going to take cryogenic treatment(处理), though most scientists say it won’t work. If we freeze huge creatures(生物) like humans, every one of their cells(细胞) will be broken. (5)在将来，他们能被带回到生活中来吗？

1. Where do most people that their bodies are kept after their death?

2. Why do they want the world to keep their bodies well?

3. How many people are going to take cryogenic treatment after they die?

4.把4处画线部分翻译成汉语。

5. 把5处画线部分翻译成英语。

Answer:

1. in the freezer

2. They hope that can come back to life one day

3. Around 1000 people

4. 当治疗技术被找到时，让他的身体重新升温回到生活中来给他们治疗。

5. Can they be taken back to the life in future？

或 Can they be brought back to life in the future?

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Researchers(研究者) have announced(宣布) the result of two studies on the health effects of the drug aspirin(阿司匹林). One study shows aspirin can sharply reduce the chance that a healthy, older man will suffer from a heart attack(心脏病). The study offered two new results from earlier findings.

It said taking one aspirin pill every other day helped only healthy men over the age of fifty. It has said aspirin gave the greatest protection against heart attacks to men with low blood cholesterol(胆固醇) levels. Earlier in the United States began a major aspirin study in the early 1980s. It included 22,000 healthy men doctors. All were between the ages of forty and eighty-fourmen did not know which kind of pill they were taking. The doctors who took aspirin suffered from heart attacks. Tens of them died. 239 men who did not take aspirin suffered from heart attacks. Twenty-six of them died.

The researchers said the doctors’ study provides clear proof that taking aspirin can prevent a first heart attack in healthy, older men. They said, however, the result does not mean every man over the age of fifty should take aspirin. They said aspirin