5、The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to rule soon that milk from cloned animals and meat from their offspring (后代) are safe to eat.

The agricultural industry has observed a self-acting stop on using the products of clones, but it has recently become clear that a few offspring of cloned pigs and cows are already flowing into the food supply. Many in agriculture believe such genetic copies are the next logical step in improving the nation’s livestock (家畜).

Many Americans are likely to be against the idea of serving clones’ milk to their children or putting meat from the offspring of clones into the kitchens. When they were asked earlier this year in a survey by the International Food Information Council whether they would willingly buy meat, milk and eggs that come from clones if the FDA declared them to be safe, 63 percent of consumers said no.

Yet scientific evidence suggests there is little cause for alarm, at least on food-safety grounds. Studies have shown that meat and milk from clones are not different from that from normal animals, although work is not complete and researchers say that clones do suffer slight genetic abnormalities (反常).

While milk from clones might reach the shelves, clones themselves are not likely to be eaten, since they cost thousands of dollars to produce. They’d be used as breeding stock(培育家畜), so the real question is whether their produced offspring would be safe.

The FDA has been promising a policy for three years, but hasn’t produced a final view, and some biotechnology companies involved in cloning have run out of cash while waiting. Livestock producers have called the FDA the“Foot Dragging Administration”.

 

72.What is the opinion of most Americans on serving cloned milk to their children?

  A.They expect to serve clone milk to their children.

  B.They have already fed their children with cloned milk.

  C.They believe using the cloned milk is safe enough.

  D.They won’t accept cloned milk.

73.What does the underlined sentence mean in the passage?

  A.The clones are very rare, so they will never be used as food.

  B.The clones cost too much money so it’s worth eating them.

  C.The clones cost so much to produce, so they will not be used as food.

  D.The FDA will make a decision that the clones are too expensive to eat as food.

74.Why has the FDA been called“Foot Dragging Administration”?

  A.Because the FDA hasn’t made final policy in the limited time.

  B.Because the FDA have used up their money to make cloned food.

  C.Because the FDA doesn’t know whether the cloned meat is safe to eat or not.

  D.Because the livestock producers like to play jokes.

75.What is the best title for this passage?

  A.The offspring of cloned animals.

  B.Clone-generated meat and milk may be accepted.

  C.Cloned animal products are dangerous.

  D.The new plan on cloned animal products.

4、My father had returned from his business visit to London when I came in, rather late for supper. I could tell at once that he and my mother had been discussing something. In that half-playful, half-serious way I knew so well, he said, “How would you like to go to Eton?”

“You bet. ” I cried quickly catching the joke. Everyone knew it was the most expensive, the most famous of schools. You should be entered at birth, if not before. I understood my father. He disliked any form of showing off. He always knew his proper station in life, which was in the middle of the middle class; our house was medium-sized; he had avoided joining Royal Liverpool Golf Club and went to a smaller one instead; though once he had got a second-hand Rolls-Royce at a remarkably low price, he felt embarrassed driving it, and quickly changed it for an Austin 1100.

This could only be his delightful way of telling me that the whole boarding school idea was to be dropped. Alas! I should also have remembered that he had a liking for being different from everyone else, if it did not conflict with his fear of drawing attention to himself.

It seemed that he had happened to be talking to Graham Brown of the London office, a very nice fellow, and Graham had a friend who had just entered his boy at the school, and while he was in that part of the world , my father thought he might just as well phone them. I remember my eyes stinging(刺痛)and my hands shaking with the puzzlement of my feelings. There was excitement, at the heart of great sadness.

“Oh, he doesn’t want to go away. ” said my mother. “You shouldn’t go on like this. ” “It’s up to him. ” said my father. “He can make up his own mind.”

 

68.The house the writer’s family lived in was________.

  A.the best they could afford                     B.right for their social position

  C.built for showing off                            D.rather small

69.The writer’s father enjoyed being different as long as________.

  A.it drew attention to him

  B.it didn’t get him into an argument

  C.it was understood as a joke

  D.there was no danger of his showing off

70.What was the writer’s reaction to the idea of going to Eton?

  A.He was very unhappy.                          B.He didn’t believe it.

  C.He was delighted.                                D.He had mixed feelings.

71.We can know from the passage that________.

  A.children who can go to Eton are the best

  B.children can go to Eton if they want

  C.Every family can not afford to send children to study at Eton

  D.Children to attend Eton should be sent there at birth

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