C. The genetic similarity may throw light on some diseases. D. Similar genes will cause similar diseases.
5. What is the passage mainly concerned about?
Part IV
A. Finding out the history of Irish families.
Finding out the special genes of Irish people to cure their diseases. B.
C. Creating a detailed human genetic map to identify disease-causing genes.
D. Creating a detailed human genetic map to identify abnormally small genes.
Directions: Choose the best answer to each of the following statements. 1. With the advent of the genetic map we know what everything is, but do we
know where to ___________?
2. As you know, it has taken millions of years of evolution and natural
selection to get us _________ we are today.
A. how B. who C. what D. where
A. go for it B. go with it C. get for it D. get with it
3. It's too late to _______ the clock. We'll just have to depend on common
sense to solve uncommon problems.
4. Many prisoners have been freed through DNA testing, except for the ones
whose death sentence has already been __________.
5. —I guess there would be some tremendous medical advantages in that sort
of research.
—You've said _________.
6. Plant breeders have already used preliminary information from the rice
genome to create experimental strains of rice that better ______ cold and
pests.
A. resist
A. return B. turn around C. turn back D. turn round
A. carried out B. carried on C. carried forward D. carried away
A. a mouth B. the mouth C. a mouthful D. the mouthful