Whatever our differences as human beings are we all think we’re more like the rest of the animal world than we realize. It is said that we share 40 per cent of our genetic（遺傳的）structure with the simple worm.
But that fact has helped Sir John Sulston win the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John is the founder of the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, which was set up in 1992 to get further understanding of the human genome（染色體組）.
To help them do this, they turned to the worm. The nematode（線蟲類的）worm is one of the earliest creatures on planet earth. It is less than one millimeter long, completely transparent and spends its entire life digging holes through sand. But it still has lots to say about human life, and what can be done to make it better.
What the worm told Sir John and his colleagues was that each of the cells in the human body is programmed like a computer. They grow, develop and die according to a set of instructions that are coded in our genetic make-up.
Many of the diseases that humans suffer from happen when these instructions go wrong or are not obeyed. When the cell refuses to die but carries on growing instead, this leads to cancer. Heart attacks and diseases like AIDS cause more cell deaths than normal, increasing the damage they do to the body. Sir John was the first scientist to prove the existence of programmed cell death.
小題1:Sir John Sulston got a Nobel Prize for Medicine because he has         .
A．found that human beings are similar to the worm
B．got the fact we share 40 per cent of our genetic structure with the simple worm
C．found the computer which controls each of the cells in the human body
D．proved that cell death is programmed
小題2:People might be seriously ill if the cells in their body        .
A．grow without being instructedB．die regularly
C．fail to follow people’s instructionsD．develop in the human body
小題3:The underlined word“they”（paragraph 5）refers to        .
A．cell deathsB．diseasesC．instructionsD．cells
小題4:What is the subject discussed in the text?
A．The theory of programmed cell deaths. B．A great scientist—Sir John Sulston.
C．The programmed human life.D．Dangerous diseases.

小題1:D
小題2:A
小題3:B
小題4:A

小題1:由文章最后一句可知。
小題2:末段首句與A項表達意義一致，而C項指的是“沒有遵照人的指令”。
小題3:they do to the body是定語從句修飾the damage，they顯然是指上文中的diseases。
小題4:若以B為題，文章需介紹他的成長過程、創(chuàng)業(yè)經(jīng)歷、工作生活等內(nèi)容。
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