Just a week after Scottish embryologists announced that they had succeeded in cloning a sheep from a single adult cell, both the genetics community and the world 31 are coming to an unsettling realization: the science is the easy part. It is not 32 the breakthrough was not decades in the making. It’s just that once it was complete — once you 33 how to transfer the genetic schematics from an adult cell into a living ovum and keep the fragile embryo 34 throughout gestation... most of your basic biological work was finished. The social and philosophical temblors it triggers, 35, have merely begun.
Only now, as the news of Dolly, the 36 oblivious sheep, becomes part of the cultural debate, are we beginning to 37 those soul-quakes? How will the new technology be regulated? What does the sudden ability to make genetic stencils of ourselves say about the concept of individuality? Is there something about the individual that is lost when the mystical act of 38 a person becomes standardized into a mere act of photocopying one?
Last week President Clinton took the first tentative step toward answering these questions, charging a U.S. commission 39 the task of investigating the legal and 40 implications of the new technology and reporting back to him with their findings within 90 days. Later this week the House subcommittee on basic research will hold a hearing to 41 the same issues. The probable tone of those sessions was established last week when Harold Varmus, director of the National Institute of Health, told another subcommittee that cloning a person is “42 to the American public.”
Around the globe, the reaction was just as 43 France’s undersecretary for research 44 human cloning as “unthinkable,” the Council of Europe Secretary General called it “unacceptable,” and Germany’s Minister of Research and Technology flatly declared: “There will never be a human clone.” Agreed Professor Akira Irirani, an embryology expert at Osaka’s Kinki University, “We must 45 applying the technique to human beings.”
问题1选项
A.at length
B.at large
C.at most
D.at least
问题2选项
A.that
B.but
C.except
D.because
问题3选项
A.make out
B.work out
C.think out
D.figure out
问题4选项
A.lively
B.alive
C.living
D.live
问题5选项
A.moreover
B.yet
C.however
D.specially
问题6选项
A.sublimely
B.predictably
C.philosophically
D.presumably
问题7选项
A.make a hash of
B.mess up
C.come to terms with
D.wind up
问题8选项
A.squalling
B.duplicating
C.conferring
D.conceiving
问题9选项
A.of
B.with
C.by
D.in
问题10选项
A.ethnological
B.anthropological
C.ethical
D.biological
问题11选项
A.pacify
B.conciliate
C.bolster
D.address
问题12选项
A.repugnant
B.homogeneous
C.munificent
D.prodigal
问题13选项
A.affirmative
B.negative
C.ingenious
D.judicious
问题14选项
A.judge
B.condemn
C.applaud
D.reckon
问题15选项
A.amount to
B.end up with
C.refrain from
D.force upon
第1题:B
第2题:A
第3题:D
第4题:B
第5题:C
第6题:A
第7题:C
第8题:D
第9题:B
第10题:C
第11题:D
第12题:A
第13题:B
第14题:B
第15题:C
31. 【试题答案】B
【试题解析】考查语义和短语。A项“终究;最终”,B项“普遍”,C项“最多”,D项“最少”。根据本句句意:就在苏格兰胚胎学家宣布他们成功地从一个成年细胞克隆绵羊一周后,遗传学界和整个世界 有一个令人不安的认识:科学是一个容易的部分,因此B项符合题意。
32. 【试题答案】A
【试题解析】考查表语从句。本句it为主语,is为系动词,that引导表语从句,that在表语从句中不可以省掉。本句句意:这并不是说这一突破不是几十年来才实现的。所以选A。
33. 【试题答案】D
【试题解析】考查词组释义。A项“辨认出,看出”,B项“计算出”,C项“仔细思考”,D项“想出;弄清楚;找出”。根据句意:一旦你 如何将遗传图谱从一个成年细胞转移到一个活的卵子中……,因此只有D项符合。
34. 【试题答案】B
【试题解析】考查词义辨析。alive,living都有活着的意思,若需严格区分,两者仍有差别:living通常是客观描述某人“尚在人间”或“健在”,而alive则主要指生与死的“界限”。live通常只用作定语(前置),所以排除D。lively“活泼的;生动的;生气勃勃的”,所以排除A。根据此处前的名词embryo“胚胎”,可知此处用alive合适,故选B。
35. 【试题答案】C
【试题解析】考查副词用法。A项“此外;并且”,可用于句首或句中;B项“现在”用于否定句和疑问句,用于句首或句末;C项“然而”,不仅能位于句首,而且能位于句中(注意前后使用逗号),甚至句末(注意其前也用逗号);D项“特别;尤其”,只能位于句首,所以排除B和D。根据句意:它引发的社会和哲学的震动, ,才刚刚开始。此处应为转折,调整语序应该是:然而,它引发的社会和哲学的震动才刚刚开始,故C项正确。
36. 【试题答案】A
【试题解析】考查词义辨析和句意理解。A项“高尚地;卓越地”,B项“可预见地”,C项“哲学上”,D项“大概;也许”。结合句意:直到现在,关于多莉的新闻,这只 遗忘的绵羊,成为了文化争论的一部分,所以此处只有A项符合句意。
37. 【试题答案】C
【试题解析】考查词组辨析。A项“把……弄糟;搞砸”,B项“搞砸;弄糟”,C项“勉强接受;向……让步”,D项“上发条;完成”。结合句意:直到现在,关于多莉的新闻,这只被遗忘的绵羊,成为了文化争论的一部分时,我们才开始 那些灵魂的震动吗?因此只有C项符合。
38. 【试题答案】D
【试题解析】考查词义辨析。A项“大声啼哭”,B项“复制;复印”,C项“商讨;协商”,D项“想出;构想”。此处的句意:当将 一个人的神秘行为标准化为仅仅复制一个人的行为时,关于个人的某些事情会丢失吗?所以D项最符合。
39. 【试题答案】B
【试题解析】考查固定搭配。固定搭配charge sb with…“指控;责令”,A项和charge搭配应为in the charge of“由……负责”或sb be in charge of“被……管理”。C项和D项和charge不能构成搭配。根据句意:上周,克林顿总统向回答这些问题迈出了试探性的第一步, 美国委员会调查……。因此此处应为B项。
40. 【试题答案】C
【试题解析】考查词义辨析。A项“民族的”,B项“人类学的”,C项“道德的;伦理的”,D项“生物学的;生物的”。根据句意:调查新技术的法律和 含义,所以此处应该是新技术带来的伦理影响,因此选C。
41. 【试题答案】D
【试题解析】考查固定搭配。A项“使平静;平息”,B项“抚慰,安抚”,C项“改善;加强”,D项“演说;演讲”。address issues为固定搭配“解决问题”,根据句意:众议院基础研究小组委员会将于本周晚些时候举行听证会,以 相同的问题。因此选择D。
42. 【试题答案】A
【试题解析】考查形容词辨析和主旨大意理解。A项“反感的”,B项“同种类的”,C项“极慷慨的”,D项“浪费的;挥霍的”。根据前文的主旨大意可知文章是对克隆人技术的批评,所以此处句意:克隆人令公众反感,故选A。
43. 【试题答案】B
【试题解析】考查形容词辨析和上下文理解。A项“肯定的;同意的”,B项“消极的;负面的”,C项“精巧的;新颖独特的”,D项“审慎而明智的;明断的”,结合文段中的unacceptable“无法接受”和There will never be a human clone“永远不会有克隆人”,可知此处是一个消极性词汇,根据各选项词义,选择B项。
44. 【试题答案】B
【试题解析】考查动词辨析和上下文理解。A项“判断;断定”,B项“谴责,指责”,C项“鼓掌;称赞”,D项“想;认为”,根据后文的unthinkable “不可思议的”,unacceptable“无法接受的”和There will never be a human clone“永远不会有克隆人”可知此处填B项最合适。
45. 【试题答案】C
【试题解析】词义辨析题。A项“接近;总计”,B项“以……结束”,C项“抑制;避免”,D项“强迫”,由前文可知是反对克隆技术应用于人类,结合句意:我们必须 把这项技术应用于人类,因此此处填C项。