60．What does the last sentence of the
passage imply?
A．Airline profits in America
will be under even greater pressure.
B．The population of obese people will
increase rapidly.
C．American airlines will charge more
for fuels.
D．Fast food restaurants will be
forced to change their menus.
(2)
A
When researchers made their first clone of an animal,
Dolly the Sheep, in 1997, one doctor said: “The genie (妖怪) is out of the bottle.” But then he tried to actually
create the “genie”--- by making a human clone.
Dr. Panayiotis Zavos told the public on October 5 that
he could create the first cloned human before the end of the year. He is an
expert on human copying and breeding from the University
of Kentucky in the United States.
His workers have been stopped from carrying out
research in most European Union countries, but Zavos said that fact was not
slowing progress.
“It is going well enough so we may try the first
production of cloned embryos in the very near future, that is, three or four
months from now.” Cypriot-born Zavos said. He moved to the United States
over 30 years ago.
Human cloning could, in effect, create a copy of
another living or dead person.
But Zavos insisted there was nothing harmful in the
project. As an expert on human reproduction, he said he is only interested in
helping couples who cannot naturally have babies to have a child.
“We are not interested in cloning people like Bin
Laden, Michael Jackson or Michael Jordan,” the doctor added.
“We are only interested in helping a father who does
not have the ability to have a biological child of his own.”
Zavos said thousands of childless people from all over
the world are helping in their research.
He would not say where the research is under way, but
indicated that it is in more than one country.