老虎虫2016高考英语阅读理解练习及答案(37)

2020年12月26日发(作者：惠斯通)
2016高考英语阅读理解练习及答案（37）

In 1977 , a dead author of detective storiessaved the life of
a nineteen-month-old baby in amost unusual author was
Agatha Christie,a gentle married lady and one of the most
successfulwriters of detective stories in the world.
In June 1977 , a baby girl became seriously ill inQatar ,
near Sandi Arabia .Doctors were unable to find out the cause of
her illness, so she was flown to London and sent
toHammersmith team of doctors hurried to examine the baby
only to discover thatthey, too, were puzzled by the very unusual
signs of they were having adiscussion about the baby’s illness,
a nurse asked to speak to them.
―Excuse me,‖ said Nurse Marsha Maitland, ―but I think
the baby is suffering from thalliumpoisoning .‖
―What makes you think that?‖ asked.―Thallium
poisoning is very rare.‖
―A few days ago, I was reading a novel called ?A Pale
Horse’ by Agatha Christie,‖ NurseMaitland explained.“In the
book, somebody uses thallium poison, and all the signs are
exactlythe same as the baby’ s .”
―You are very careful and you may be right,‖ another
doctor said.―we‘ll carry out sometests and find out whether it’
s thallium or not.‖
Tests showed that the baby had indeed been poisoned by
they knew thecause of the illness, the doctors were able to give
the baby the correct soonrecovered and was sent back to on
it was proved that the poison might have comefrom
insecticide used in Qatar.
first suggested the correct cause of the baby’s illness?
Doctor in Qatar.
Maitland.

Christie.
was the baby sent to London?
was a British girl whose parents were working in Qatar.
hospitals in Qatar were full at that time.
was the daughter of a doctor in one of the places.
Qatar doctors were not sure they could cure her.
far as we can tell from passage, Agatha Christie.
never even met this baby.
spent a long time as a police officer.
the baby in the hospital at Hammersmith.
Nurse Maitland some advice on the phone .
an
Maitland spoke to the doctors
she heard them discussing the possibility ofthallium poison.
she could see that the doctors had made a mistake.
suggest a possible reason for the patient’ s illness.
she had read about a horse which had been poisoned.
did the doctor think of the suggestion which Nurse
Maitland made?
were very quick to agree with her.
were unhappy over her interruption.
said that she was wrong because thallium poisoning is very
rare.
thought it was a possibility worth considering.
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