Her Tiny Heart

Cheyenne Pyle became famous, and the best part is that she'll never remember a bit of it. Early Sunday the 3.4-kg girl was born at a children's hospital. Ninety minutes later, she was undergone surgery to replace her underdeveloped heart, and operation that restored her to heart and made her the world's youngest heart taker.

Even before Cheyenne was delivered, doctors knew she was in for a rough ride. Ultrasound revealed a deformity in the left side of her heart; she would need either a series of procedures to correct the defect or a simple operation to replace the organ. Her parents chose the transplant.

Doctors tissue-typed Cheyenne while she was still in the womb, placed her on a heart-transplant waiting list and put a team of surgeons, nurses and transport coordinators on call. Ten days later, during the 36th week of gestation, word arrived that a baby had died during or shortly after birth and the parents had agreed to donate the infant's heart.

The first step in the six-hour operation was a caesarean delivery, during which the weak Cheyenne cried as hard as any other newborn. "I wanted her to keep crying so I knew she was alive," said her mother. Cheyenne soon grew still, however, as doctors lowered her temperature to less than 17℃ to prevent neurological damage during the critical period after her own heart was removed and before her new, golf ball-size heart was in place. Not until the patient reached this state of suspended animation was it sale to make the transplantation.

Cheyenne's initial prognosis is good; doctors give her an 80% chance of survival. But throughout her entire life she will depend on some special drugs to prevent organ rejection. What matters most to her family, however, is that she will have that life.

36. Which of the following could replace the title of the passage? ________

A. A Caesarean Delivery

B. A Difficult Operation

C. The Youngest Organ Taker

D. An Organ Transplant Operation

37. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? ________

A. Cheyenne was not born on the expected date of birth.

B. Cheyenne behaved differently from any other newborn at the moment she came to this world.

C. Cheyenne's parents need not pay for the transplanted heart.

D. Cheyenne's temperature was lowered below 17℃ to keep her nervous system from being damaged.

38. What does "which" in the first line of the fourth paragraph refer to? ________

A. The six-hour operation.

B. The caesarean delivery.

C. The transplant operation.

D. The six-hour period.

39. It can be concluded from the passage that the transplant operation ________

A. lasted ninety minutes.

B. was of 80% success.

C. was successful.

D. was not successful.

40. Which of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph? ________

A. Cheyenne will live as healthily as any other child in the future.

B. Cheyenne needs another operation to prevent organ rejection.

C. Cheyenne will have little chance of survival because of organ rejection.

D. Cheyenne will probably depend on some sort of medicine all her life.

答案：36.C 37.B 38.B 39.C 40.D

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