Among all the fast growing science and technology, the research of human genes（基因）, or biological engineering as people call it, is drawing more and more attention now. Sometimes it is a hot topic discussed by people.
The greatest thing that gene technology can do is to cure serious diseases that doctors at present can almost do nothing with, such as cancer and heart disease. Every year, millions of people are murdered by these two killers. And to date, doctors have not found an effective way to cure them. But if the gene technology is applied（應(yīng)用）, not only these two diseases can be cured completely, bringing happiness and more living days to the patients, but also the great amount of money people spend on curing their diseases can be saved, therefore it benefits the economy as well. In addition, human life span(壽命) can be prolonged.
Gene technology can help people to give birth to more healthy and clever children. Some families, with the English imperial family being a good example, have hereditary diseases. This means their children will for sure have the family disease, which is a great trouble for these families. In the past, doctors could do nothing about hereditary diseases. But gene technology can solve this problem perfectly. The scientists just need to find the wrong gene and correct it and a healthy child will be born.
Some people are worrying that the gene research can be used to manufacture (produce) human beings in large quantities. In the past few years, scientists have succeeded in cloning a sheep; therefore these people predict that human babies would soon be cloned. But I believe cloned babies will not come out in large quantities, for most couples in the world can have babies in very normal way. Of course, the governments must take care to control gene technology.
小題1:What does “these two killers” in the second paragraph refer to?
A．Gene technology and another treatment of the two diseases.
B．The two murderers who killed the cloned baby
C．The two diseases of cancer and heart disease
D．Hereditary diseases and cancer
小題2:What’s the main idea of the third paragraph?
A．How gene technology can be applied to cure family diseases.
B．Gene technology can be used to clone human babies.
C．Gene technology can help people to give birth to a baby.
D．Gene technology can help the English imperial family out
小題3:What is the main purpose of writing this passage?
A．Expressing the writer’s idea that gene technology will benefit people
B．Telling people the advantages of gene technology
C．Telling the readers that gene technology will not benefit people
D．Explaining that gene technology will also do harm to the humanity
小題4:Which of the following worries people by using this technology?
A．Scientists have already successfully cloned sheep.
B．Most couple will normally give birth to babies.
C．A good number of babies will be cloned
D．The government will take action to control it.

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:A
小題4:C
文章是關(guān)于基因技術(shù)，詳細(xì)講述了基因技術(shù)的好處。
小題1:推理題。根據(jù)上文的such as cancer and heart disease.
小題2:主旨大義題。通讀第三段，第三段是關(guān)于基因被應(yīng)用于治愈家族病。
小題3:主旨大義題。通讀全文可知文章主要講述了基因技術(shù)對(duì)人類的好處以及作者的觀點(diǎn)。
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章最后一段Some people are worrying that the gene research can be used to manufacture (produce) human beings in large quantities.
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London has a new magazine. But it’s not printed on paper. Everyone who has a television can receive it because it is on TV.
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B．No paper is used to print the magazine.
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D．The speed of transmitting is astonishing.
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D．find the exact page in which you can get information you need
小題4:The passage is mainly about          .
A．a(chǎn) new magazine printed in London
B．a(chǎn) popular TV program with three services
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B．Overcome the Challenges in Our Life.
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D．More than a Comfortable Fantasy.
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A．To show the right way of dealing with weight problems.
B．To describe a familiar scenario in life.
C．To give support to the author’s viewpoint.
D．To compare the consequences of different choices.
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B．Think about what’s wrong with himself and then put it right.
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A．dead cell wallsB．water entering dead cells
C．the growth of cellsD．the death of cells
小題2:From the passage we know that the evolutionary scale is graded according to      .
A．evolutionary cyclesB．heights and depths
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小題4:The most suitable title for this passage is “      ”.
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Once upon a time in a land far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything：animals, spiders, insects．．．
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The butterfly then appeared easily．
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B．it loved crawling around．
C．it got out of the cocoon easily．
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A．popular scienceB．humorous stories．
C．successful peopleD．philosophy events ．
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A．Life without any obstacles and difficulties is perfect．
B．Obstacles and difficulties contribute to success．
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D．A butterfly can never fly without going through the cocoon．

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