新视野大学英语4读写网络.doc

Read the following passage and fill in blanks using terms from Task 1. 窗体顶端Experts have forecast the most influential technological applications in the next decades. They include and animals, technology treatment, making medicine according to a patients , man-made muscle and tissues, , memory-enhancing drugs, chips inserted into the brain, medical robots, etc. Those technologies are all concerned with biotechnology. Your answer Correct answer (1) 啦啦啦 GM crops (2) stem cell (3) genetic map (4) cloning 窗体底端1-5BCDAC1. What is the passage mainly about? (A) Risks involved in stem cell research. (B) Benefits from stem cell research. (C) Advantages of genetic engineering. (D) The debate of the two parties on stem cell research. 2. Who is against stem cell research? (A) The Republican Party. (B) The Democratic Party. (C) The male speaker. (D) The female speaker. 3. What is special about a stem cell? (A) It can become another type of cell. (B) It can be obtained from another type of cell. (C) It can turn a brain cell into a kidney cell. (D) It can turn a kidney cell into a brain cell. 4. When can a stem cell become another celltype? (A) When it divides. (B) When it combines with another stem cell. (C) When one takes a certain drug. (D) When one is in good health. 5. Why do some people oppose stem cellresearch? (A) They worry about legal problems. (B) They worry about social problems. (C) They want to reduce medical risks. (D) They dont want to interfere with nature. 窗体顶端Your answer Correct answer (1) Research (2) genes (3) journal (4) warn (5) productivity (6) grow (7) survival (8) Plant breeders have already used preliminary information from the rice genome to create experimental strains of rice that better resist cold and pests (9) The new map could better explain more than just rice. Rice shares a common ancestor with other cereal crops (10) While significant progress has been made in the analysis of the rice genome, the mapping of the human genes is also making headway 窗体底端CBDADYour answer Correct answer (1) kitchens (2) opposed (3) labeled (4) completely (5) law (6) no way (7) GM ingredients (8) choice (9) Tougher (10) any content (11) the public (12) fear (13) safer (14) naturally (15) cheap (16) decide Your answer Correct answer (1) biotechnology (2) rejected (3) special labels (4) 73 percent to 27 percent / 73% to 27% (5) a new type of tomato (6) against (7) save lives (8) improve the human condition (9) medicines (10) conventional foods AABBA DBACCYour answer Correct answer (1) trees (2) native genes (3) black (4) onion (5) taste (6) poisonous (7) tested (8) toxic (9) fish (10) popular (11) bigger (12) food (13) normally (14) larger (15) threefold (16) genes (17) originally (18) different (19) risks (20) laboratory (21) environment 1-5ACDBA ACDCB CDCABYour answer Correct answer (1) downtown (2) loan (3) security (4) agreed (5) against (6) underground (7) settle (8) That will be $5,000 in principal, and $20.30 in interest (9) Were very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled (10) Where else in Manhattan can I park my car for two weeks for only $20.30 and expect it to be there when I return Your answer Correct answer (1) trouble (2) sales (3) save (4) backed (5) salary (6) private medical (7) 100,000 pounds (8) another (9) money (10) hire (11) debt (12) face the facts (13) securing (14) difficult (15) contacts (16) schoolboy excuse Your answer Correct answer (1) environment (2) economy (3) minus (4) enterprises (5) benefits (6) demands (7) balanced, sustainable (8) generations CDDAB BABAAYour answer Correct answer (1) marketing campaign (2) huge challenge (3) market (4) football (5) eight new teams (6) time-consuming (7) the marketing and the organisation AAADCABCYour answer Correct answer (1) future needs (2) shares (3) risk (4) banks (5) 30 (6) a half (7) rate (8) capital loss (9) interchangeably (10) savings DBCCA ABBAAYour answersCorrect answers1) 1) they must sort out their cash flow problem by selling a part of the business to investors.2) 2) its a realistic amount to take this manufacturing business forward.3) 3) they must update their initial business plan4) 4) its time to put on the suit and try to sell part of Cyclepods to an investor.5) 5) so Ill have to. maybe get the heavies in or something.6) 6) The most important thing James needs to do over the next two months is to raise cash7) 7) Cyclepods cant do anything without an updated business plan.8) 8) its back to basics for a fun evening of number crunching and spread sheets,9) 9) its time for a professional and considered rehearsal to get his sales pitch just right.10) 10) Presentation skills are going to be crucialABDBC CBDACHe has been following the roller coaster ride of his stock portfolio and its driving him mad.Stocks are pretty hard to predict. So she has put her money into hedge funds.A hedge is a way of reducing risk. A hedge fund is a company that creates a stock portfolio that tries to balance the market activity.Analysts examine stocks to assess which ones are likely to go up, and which will likely go down. He says that if he leaves his money with a fund manager, perhaps the manager can trade his stocks in a more profitable way. Your answer Co