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The current political debate over family values, personal responsibility, and welfare takes for granted the entrenched American belief that dependence on government assistance is a recent and destructive phenomenon. Conservatives tend to blame this dependence on personal irresponsibility aggravated by a swollen welfare apparatus that saps individual initiative. Liberals are more likely to blame it on personal misfortune magnified by the harsh lot that falls to losers in our competitive market economy. But both sides believe that "winners" in America make it on their own that dependence reflects some kind of individual or family failure, and that the ideal family is the self-reliant unit of traditional lore——a family that takes care of its own, carves out a future for its children, and never asks for handouts. Politicians at both ends of tile ideological spectrum have wrapped themselves in the mantle of these "family values,"
A. expensively
B. from the railroad company
C. with the help of governing authorities
D. with no help of governing authorities
Passage 3
The current political debate over family values, personal responsibility, and welfare takes for granted the entrenched American belief that dependence on government assistance is a recent and destructive phenomenon. Conservatives tend to blame this dependence on personal irresponsibility aggravated by a swollen welfare apparatus that saps individual initiative. Liberals are more likely to blame it on personal misfortune magnified by the harsh lot that falls to losers in our competitive market economy. But both sides believe that "winners" in America make it on their own that dependence reflects some kind of individual or family failure, and that the ideal family is the self-reliant unit of traditional lore——a family that takes care of its own, carves out a future for its children, and never asks for handouts. Politicians at both ends of tile ideological spectrum have wrapped themselves in the mantle of these "family values,"
A. nimble
B. absurd
C. insular
D. liberal
This election year, the debate over cloning technology has become a circus -- and hardly anybody has noticed the gorilla hiding in the tent. Even while President Bush has endorsed throwing scientists in jail to stop ’"reckless experiments", it’s just possible the First Amendment will protect researchers who want to perform cloning research.
Dr. Leon Kass, the chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics, would like to keep that a secret. "I don’t want to encourage such thinking," he said. But the notion that the First Amendment creates a "right to research" has been around for a long time, and Kass knows it. In 1977, four eminent legal scholars -- Thomas Emerson, Jerome Barron, Walter Berns and Harold P. Green -- were asked to testify before the House Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space. At the time, there was alarm in the country over recombinant DNA. Some people feared clones, designer babies, a plague
A. identical.
B. similar.
C. complementary.
D. opposite.
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In the angry debate over how much of IQ comes from the genes that children inherit from parents and how much comes from experiences, one little fact gets overlooked: no one has identified any genes (other than those in the case of retardation) that affect intelligence. So researchers led by Robert Plomin of London’s Institute of Psychiatry decided to look for some.
Plomin’s colleagues drew blood from two groups of 51 children each. They are all White living in six counties around Cleveland. In one group, the average IQ is 136. In the other group, the average IQ is 103. Isolating the blood cells, the researchers then examined each child’s chromosome 6 ( One of 23 human chromosomes along which genes made of DNA). Of the 37 landmarks on chromo- some 6 that the researchers looked for, one jumped out: a form of gene called IGF2R occurred in twice as many children in high-IQ group as in the average group -- 32 percent versus 16 percent. T
A. is IQ gene.
B. encourages nerves to grow.
C. has nothing to do with IQ gene.
D. is decisive to the development of intelligence.
Charlie Bucket was a small boy in a very poor family. (61) once a year, on his birthday, did Charlie ever get to (62) a bit of chocolate. The whole family saved (63) their money for that special (64) , and when the great day arrived, Charlie was always presented (65) one small chocolate bar to eat all (66) himself.
And each time he received it (67) those marvelous birthday mornings, he would place it (68) in a small wooden box that he owned, and (69) it as thought it were a bar of (70) gold; and for the next few days, he would (71) himself only to look at it, (72) never to touch it. Then at last, (73) he could stand it no longer, he would strip a (74) bit of the paper wrapping(包装材料) at one corner to (75) a tiny bit of chocolate, and (76) he would take at tiny amount of it-just (77) to allow the lovely sweet taste to spread out slowly over his (78)
A. large
B. limited
C. tiny
D. minor
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