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[单项选择]We'll ______ you as soon as we have any further information.
A. notify
B. signify
C. communicate
D. impart
[单项选择]Meteorologists forecast the weather______.
A. when they have received satellite pictures
B. during they study satellite pictures
C. after they have compared new satellite pictures with earlier ones
[单项选择]In the next century we"ll be able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-forms. When Dr. Frankenstein made his monster, he wrestled with the moral issue of whether he should allow it to reproduce, "Had I the right, for my oval benefit, to inflict the curse upon everlasting generations" Will such questions require us to develop new moral philosophies
Probably not. Instead, we"ll reach again for a time-tested moral concept, one sometimes called the Golden Rule and which Kant, the millennium"s most prudent moralist, conjured up into a categorical imperative: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you; treat each person as an individual rather than as a means to some end.
Under this moral precept we should recoil at human cloning, because it inevitably entails using humans as means to other humans" ends and valuing them as copies of others we loved or as collections of body parts, not as individuals in their own right. We should also draw a line, however fuzzy, that would permit using genetic engineering to cure diseases and disabilities but not to change the personal attributes that make someone an individual (IQ, physical appearance, gender and sexuality).
The biotech age will also give us more reason to guard our personal privacy. Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, got it wrong: rather than centralizing power in the hands of the state, DNA technology has empowered individuals and families. But the state will have an important role, making sure that no one, including insurance companies, can look at our genetic data without our permission or use it to discriminate against us.
Then we can get ready for the breakthroughs that could come at the end of the next century and the tech nology is comparable to mapping our genes: plotting the 10 billion or more neurons of our brain. With that information we might someday be able to create artificial intelligences that think and experience consciousness in ways that are indistinguishable from a human brain. Eventually we might be able to replicate our own minds in a "dry-ware" machine, so that we could live on without the "wet-ware" of a biological brain and body. The 20th century"s revolution in infotechnology will thereby merge with the 21st century"s revolution in biotechnology. But this is science fiction. Let"s turn the page now and get back to real science.Dr. Frankenstein"s remarks are mentioned in the text ______
A. to give an episode of the DNA technological breakthroughs
B. to highlight the importance of a means to some everlasting ends
C. to show how he created a new form of life a thousand years ago
D. to introduce the topic of moral philosophies incurred in biotechnology
[单项选择]“Insurance Certificate follows as soon as we receive it from the underwriter．”最确切的翻译是( )
A. 接到受保人的保险凭证，我们就立即寄给你方。
B. 接到投保人的保险凭证，我们就立即寄给你方。
C. 接到被保险人的保险凭证，我们就立即寄给你方。
D. 接到保险人的保险凭证，我们就立即寄给你方。
[单项选择]According to the weather forecast, which is usually ______ , it will snow this afternoon.
A. accurate
B. precise
C. exact
D. perfect
[单项选择]We'll be away for two weeks because we'll have a ______.
[单项选择]The weather forecast says it will be cloudy with a slight（） of rain later tonight.
A. effect
B. sense
C. change
D. chance
[单项选择]BBC's weather forecast is a ______ programme.
A. seldom-watched
B. little-known
C. new
D. popular
[单选题]Except perhaps _______ a pilot, before taking off, obtains a weather forecast giving him the weather conditions which are expected along the route of his flight and his destination.
A.for VFR flights
B.for local or very short flights
C.for local flights
D.for test flights
[单项选择]——How soon will you be able to finish your homework
—______
A. After two hours
B. In two hours
C. Two hours later
[单项选择]—How soon will you be able to finish your homework
A. After two hours
B. In two hours
C. Two hours later
[单项选择]We must get up early tomorrow, （ ）we'll miss the first bus to the Great Wall.
A. so
B. or
C. but
D. however
[单项选择]______ we'll go camping tomorrow depends on the weather.
A. If
B. Whether
C. That
D. Where
[单项选择]We'll visit Europe next year ______ we have enough money.
A. lest
B. until
C. unless
D. provided
[单项选择]"If we fail to act now, "said Tom, "We'll find ourselves ______ in action later on."
A. paid back
B. paid for
C. paid up
D. paid off
