湖南省株洲市2014高考英语阅读理解、短文改错训练

1、株洲市2014高考英语阅读理解、短文改错训练（12）及答案 In a mouse that can speak acceptable? How about a dog with human hands or feet? Scientists, the people that know how to make such things happen, are now thinking about whether such experiments are morally right or not.On November 10, Britains Academy of Medical Sciences launched a study on the use of animals with human materials in scientific research.The work is expected to take at least a year, but its leaders hope it will lead to guidelines for scientists in Brit

2、ain and around the world on how far they can go mixing human genes into animals in search of ways to fight human disease.“Do these constructs challenge our idea what it is to be human?” asked Martain Borow, a professor of medical genetics at Cambridge University and chair of a 14member group looking into the disease.“It is important that we consider these questions now so that appropriate boundaries are recognized and research is able to fulfill its potential.”Using human materials in animals is

3、 not new. Scientists have already created monkeys that have a human form of the Huntingdons gene so they can study how the disease develops; and mice with livers made with human cells are being used to study the effects of new drugs.”However, scientists say the technology of putting ever greater amounts of human genetic materials into animals is spreading quickly around the world, raising the possibility that some scientists in some places may want to go further than is morally acceptable.“There

4、 is a whole raft of new scientific techniques that will make it not only easier but also more important to be able to do these crossspecies experiments,” Borow said.Last year, there was a lively debate over new laws allowing the creation of human animal embryos foe experiments.On one side of the debate were religious groups, who claimed that such science interferes with nature. Opposing them were scientists who pointed out that such experiments were vital to the research on cures for diseases.Bo

5、row said he and his colleagues did not want to see such arguments again and are acting now so that they can influence such debate rather than have to react to it.The experts will publish reports after the end of the study in which they give definitions for animal embryos with human genes or cells, look at safety and animal welfare issues, and consider the right legal framework to work within.Scientists are concerned about.how to place human genes in animals how far they should go with experiment

6、s on animals with human genesWhether such experiments will help cure human diseaseWhether to make such experiments legalThe purpose of the study launched by Britains Academy of Medical Sciences is to.search for new ways to fight human diseasestudy the effects of new drugsreact positively to an ongoing moral debatedraw the proper boundaries for scientistsThe underlined word “them”in the ninth paragraph refers to .A. religious groups B. scientists C. crossspecies experiments D. humananimal embryos

7、4. The text tells us about.A. the first time scientists have used human genetic material in animalsB. British laws to ban crossspecies gene mixingC. a debate on the morality of some gene experimentsD. the clear guidelines that now exist for adding human genes to animal embryos出处：2012满分计划高考英语一轮复习模拟试卷三B解析：1.选B. 逻辑推理题。根据文章第一段的Scientists, the people that know how to make such things happen, are now thinking about whether such experiments are morally right or not.和第三段的内容综合判断，科学家们关心的是对植入人类基因的动物进行实验是否符

8、合伦理道德，即这样的实验能够进行到什么程度，所以答案为B. 2. 选D. 细节判断题。从文中第三段的its leaders hope it will lead to guidelines for scientists in Britain and around the world on how far they can go mixing human genes into animals in search of ways to fight human disease.可知，这个研究的目的在于让科学家认识这些实验能够进行到什么程度，为他们划定界限，所以选D. 3. 选A。 词义猜测提。 从第九段可知，辩论一方为religious groups，他们反对此类实验；而辩论的另一方为Scientists，他们认为此类实验是必要的。由此可知，Scientists反对的是religious groups。选C. 主旨大意题。本文至始至终介绍的是科学家将人类基因运用于动物进行实验后产生了一系列道德和伦理方面可行性的辩论，C具有高度的概括性和很强的针对性，为正确答案。*结束（2011重庆卷）DWil

9、liam Butler Yeats, a most famous Irish writer, was born in Dublin on June 13,1865. His childhood lacked the harmony (和睦) that was typical of a happy family. Later, Yeats shocked his family by saying that he remembered “little of childhood but its pain”. In fact, he inherited (继承) excellent taste in art from his familyboth his father and his brother were painters. But he finally settled on literature, particularly drama (戏剧) and poetry.Yeats had strong faith in coming of new artistic movements. He set himself the fresh task in founding an Irish national theatre in the late 1890s. His early theatrical experiments, however, were not received favorably at the beginning. He didnt lose heart, and finally enjoyed success in his poetical drama.Compared with his dramatic works, Yeatss poems attract much admiring notice.

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