16. A. visitors

17. A. interest

18. A. talking about

19. A. so that

20. A. occasional

21. A. dead

22. A. right

23. A. cheat

24. A. days

25. A. realized

26. A. great

27. A. happy

28. A. apologized

29. A. dreamed

30. A. because

31. A. notice

32. A. hardly

33. A. humour

34. A. forgotten

35. A. joy B. relatives

B. requirement

B. looking for

B. even though

B. tight

B. mad

B. chance

B. tell

B. weeks

B. wondered

B. alive

B. uncertain

B. remembered

B. shown

B. if

B. feel

B. immediately

B. encouragement

B. called

B. regret C. patients

C. condition

C. pointing out

C. soon after

C. satisfactory

C. gone

C. nerve

C. remind

C. months

C. heard

C. successful

C. nervous

C. explained

C. wanted

C. unless

C. imagine

C. firmly

C. touch

C. missed

C. respect D. friends

D. thought

D. helping with

D. just as

D. warm

D. excited

D. time

D. warn

D. years

D. asked

D. lucky

D. proud

D. admitted

D. received

D. as

D. appreciate

D. wrongly

D. treatment

D. seen

D. sympathy

第三节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

　　 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　COLUMBUS, Ohio--The heart operation taking place in the pale-green operating room at the Ohio State University Medical Center was unusual. The patient, a 62-year-old man, was made to sleep, tied with blue drapes (消毒帷帘) and lying face up on a narrow table. But no one was touching him.

　　Instead, the operation was being performed by a robot, whose three metal arms went through pencil-sized holes in the man's chest. At the ends of the robot's arms were tiny metal fingers, with turning wrists, which held a tiny instrument, a light and a camera. The robot's arms and fingers were controlled by Dr. Randall. K. Wolf, the surgeon, sitting at a computer in a corner of the operating room about 20 feet away.

　　This sort of operation, heart surgeons say, is the start of what may be the biggest change in their profession since heart bypass surgery (心脏搭桥手术) began nearly 30 years ago. "The reason we make cuts is that we have big hands," said Dr. Wolf, the director of the surgery at Ohio State. The robot's dainty fingers, no longer than a nail on the small finger, at the end of the long sticks could work better.

　　Eventually, surgeons believe, most heart surgery will be done by robots whose arms are put in through pencil-sized holes punched in patients' chests. Instead of directly staring into a patient's body, surgeons will view magnified images of the operation on computer screens. In theory, the doctor would not have to be in the same room, or even the same country, as the patient.

1. In this passage, the underlined word "dainty" means ____.

　A. small B. weak C. fat D. quick

2. According to the passage, the reason that most operations require large cuts is that ____.

　A. patients have large organs B. surgeons have large hands

　C. large cuts take less time D. large cuts cost less money

3. The main idea of this passage is that heart surgery by robots ____.

　A. is quicker than surgery done by doctors B. was developed at Ohio State University

　C. is a new and risky procedure D. may replace surgery done by doctors

4. Based on the information in this passage, all of the following conclusions are true EXCEPT that ____.

　A. all doctors at Ohio State develop new surgical techniques

B. robot surgery is being developed at Ohio State