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Directions: In this section there are reading passages followed by multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your answer sheet.

Passage one

A class action lawsuit has been filed against a prominent Toronto doctor by patients who allege he injected a banned substance into their faces for cosmetic purposes. The doctor had already been investigated for more than three years for using the liquid silicone, a product not authorized for use in Canada.

Some patients say they are now suffering health problems and think the liquid silicone may be to blame. One of those patients is Anna Barbiero. She says her Toronto dermatologist told her he was using liquid silicone to smooth out wrinkles. What she says he didn’ t tell her is that it isn’ t approved for use in Canada. “I didn’ t know what liquid silicone was and he just called it ‘ liquid gold’ , ” Barbiero remembers. After her last treatment, Anna discovered Dr. Sheldon Pollack had been ordered to stop using the silicone two years earlier by Health Canada. Experts say silicone can migrate through the body, and cause inflammation and deformities.

“My upper lip is always numb and it bums, ” Barbiero says. Barbiero is spearheading a lawsuit against the doctor, who her lawyer thinks might involve up to 100 patients injected with the same material. “The fact, a physician of his stature would use an unauthorized product on a patient because he thought it was okay, is really very disturbing, ” says lawyer Douglas Elliott.

Ontario’ s College of Physicians and Surgeons is also investigating Dr. Pollack to see if, in fact, he continued to use the silicone after agreeing to stop and whether he wrote in patient records that he used another legal product when he used silicone. However, in a letter to the College, Dr. Pollack wrote that he had always told patients that the silicone was not approved for sale in Canada, and had warned them of the risks. And in Barbiero’ s case, “. . . at the time of her first visit, prior to her ever receiving IGLS treatment, I specifically informed her that the material was not approved for sale in Canada by the Health Protection Branch and that I did receive the material from outside the country. . . I would like to emphasize that, as is evident on Ms. Barbiero’ s chart, I drew a specific diagram on the chart which I carefully discussed with and explained to Ms. Barhiero as I did with every other patient to explain the nature and likelihood of complications and the masons and consequences of those possible complications. ”

Dr. Pollack declined to speak to CTV News, or to have his lawyer discuss the case. None of the allegations have been proven in court. But the case raises questions about the ability of governing bodies to monitor doctors. “There’ s a larger message and that is: buyer beware, ” says Nancy Neilsen of Cosmetic Surgery Canada. “It’ s incumbent on consumers to do their research. ” 

单选题 Doctor Sheldon Pollack was charged that ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】文章第一句“…he injected a banned substance into their faces for cosmetic purposes. ” 提到患者指责Dr.Sheldon Pollack使用违禁材料做面部美容。 第二段第一句“Some patients say they are now suffering health problems and think the liquid silicone may be to blame” 提到这些患者遭遇了健康问题， 并归咎于液态硅酮， 故B项为正确答案。
单选题 What does the word “dermatologist” (Line Para. 2)mean?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】原文第二段第三句“She says her Toronto dermatologist told her he was using liquid silicone to smooth out wrinkles. ” 提到医生用液体硅酮除皱纹， 可以推断出他是皮肤科医生， 故D项为正确答案。
单选题 The investigation of Ontario’ s College of Physicians and Surgeons is to find ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】原文第四 段第一句“…he continued to use the silicone after agreeing to stop and whether he wrote in patient records that he used another legal product when he used silicone. ” 提到正在调查Dr. Pollack在同意停用液体硅胶后是否还在继续使用， 以及是否在使用硅胶的同时在患者的病历上写上另一种合法产品的名称， 故A项为正确答案。
单选题 Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】原文第三段第一句“My upper lip is always numb and it bums” 提到Barbiero的上唇觉得麻木并有灼烧感， 可以推断出她遭受了很多痛苦， 故D项为正确答案。 A、 B项属于Dr. Pollack的辩解， 具有争议性， 应排除； C项是对Elliott提出存在的问题的曲解， 也应排除。
单选题 From the ending part of the passage, we can conclude that ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】原文最后一段第二、 三句“None of the allegations have been proven in court. But the case raises questions about the ability of governing bodies to monitor doctors. ” 指出任何主张都没有被法庭采纳， 但这个案子提出了相关机构对医生进行监管的能力的问题， 并没有说这些机构将被起诉， 故C项为正确答案。