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While there’s never a good age to get cancer, people in their 20s and 30s can feel particularly isolated. The average age of a c

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问题     While there’s never a good age to get cancer, people in their 20s and 30s can feel particularly isolated. The average age of a cancer patient at diagnosis is 67. Children with cancer often are treated at pediatric cancer centers, but young adults have a tough time finding peer, often sitting side-by-side during treatments with people who could be their grandparents.
    In her new book Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips, writer Kris Carr looks at cancer from the perspective of a young adult who confronts death just as she’s discovering life. Ms. Carr was 31 when she was diagnosed with a rate form of cancer that had generated tumors on her liver and lungs.
    Ms. Carr reacted with the normal feelings of shock and sadness. She called her parents and stocked up on organic food, determined to become a "full-time healing addict". Then she picked up the phone and called everyone in her address book, asking if they knew other young women with cancer. The result was her personal "cancer posse": a rock concert tour manager, a model, a fashion magazine editor, a cartoonist and a MTV celebrity, to name a few. This club of "cancer babes" offered support, advice, and fashion tips, among other things.
    Ms. Carr put her cancer experience in a recent Learning Channel documentary, and she has written a practical guide about how she coped. Cancer isn’t funny, but Ms. Carr often is. She swears, she makes up names for the people who treat her(Dr. Fabulous and Dr. Guru), and she calls them.
    She leaves the medical advice to doctors, instead offering insightful and practical tips that reflect the world view of a young adult. "I refused to let cancer ruin my party," she writes. "There are just too many cooling things to do and plan and live for." Ms. Carr still has cancer, but it has stopped progressing. Her cancer tips include using time-saving mass e-mails to keep friends informed, sewing or buying fashionable hospital gowns so you’re not stuck with regulation blue or gray and playing Gloria Gaynor’s "I Will Survive" so loud your neighbors call the police. Ms Can-also advises an eyebrow wax and a new outfit before you tell the important people in your life about your illness. "People you tell are going to cautiously and not so cautiously try to see the cancer, so dazzle them instead with your miracle, " she writes.
    While her advice may sound superficial, it gets to her heart of what every cancer patient wants the chance to live life just as she always did, and maybe better.
The phrase "cancer posse"(Para 3)probably refer to______
选项 A、a cancer research organization.
B、a group of people who suffer from cancer.
C、people who have recovered from cancer.
D、people who cope with cancer.
答案B
解析 词义推断题的解题过程是阅读文章直到找到题目所规定的词语，再根据上下文的线索合理推断。常见的上下文推断线索有：定语、因果关系、举例、定义、重述、反义或同义等。在阅读查找过程中我们找到了cancer posse所在的句子The result was her personal“cancer posse”；a rock concert tour manager,a model，a fashion magazine editor,a cartoonist and a MTV celebrity,to name a few．，我们会发现句首的the result就是一条有用的线：素，表明本句与上句有因果关系；另外，还会发现本句中就有一个标点符号“：”，这也是一个很有用的线索；如果还有困难，自然会继续阅读下旬，我们又会发现this club又是一条很好的线索。说到这里，考友们调动一下思维，自然会选择B项作为答案。
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