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.
B. Finding out the special genes of Irish people to cure their diseases. 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 __________.
A. carried out B. carried on C. carried forward D. carried away
A. return B. turn around C. turn back D. turn round
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. a mouth B. the mouth C. a mouthful D. the mouthful
B. resist to C. resist with D. resist against
7. When scientists can identify and manipulate genes that cause certain
diseases, ______ will cure them easily.
8. All Americans eat biotech foods unless they deliberately seek out products
that are labeled ___________.
9. Human beings must learn to _______ a balance between the welfare of a
patient and that of a clone.
A. strike B. hit C. beat D. access
A. the mankind B. mankind C. the man D. human race
A. others B. otherwise
C. through other ways D. in other methods
10. Do you think it's wrong to _______ with nature by biotechnology?
A. interact B. interconnect C. interface D. interfere
