[填空题]When a smitten great-grandson of Charles Darwin pronounced Ava Gardner "the highest specimen of the human species," he summed up the consensus about this voluptuous movie queen. With remarkable unanimity, those who met Gardner were apt m second that emotion.
"She was a sexy gal," said George Sidney, who filmed her for an MGM screen test in 1941. "Man. she was a hot number," Miles Davis said many years later. (41) . As for the much-vaunted party stamina of a woman who never met a drink or a bullfighter she didn’t like: "She could go all night, y’know. She was a wild country girl and liked to let her hair down and fling off her shoes and have a good time." Her latest biographer. Lee Server, is no slouch when it comes to admiring Gardner. His book’s introduction calls her "a carnal, dangerous angel in the chiaroscuro dreamscape of film noir."
(42) . He is well suited 1o writing about iconic movie mavericks like these two. He’s not a bore. And as the author of a bo

[填空题]When a smitten great-grandson of Charles Darwin pronounced Ava Gardner "the highest specimen of the human species," he summed up the consensus about this voluptuous movie queen. With remarkable unanimity, those who met Gardner were apt m second that emotion.
"She was a sexy gal," said George Sidney, who filmed her for an MGM screen test in 1941. "Man. she was a hot number," Miles Davis said many years later. (41) . As for the much-vaunted party stamina of a woman who never met a drink or a bullfighter she didn’t like: "She could go all night, y’know. She was a wild country girl and liked to let her hair down and fling off her shoes and have a good time." Her latest biographer. Lee Server, is no slouch when it comes to admiring Gardner. His book’s introduction calls her "a carnal, dangerous angel in the chiaroscuro dreamscape of film noir."
(42) . He is well suited 1o writing about iconic movie mavericks like these two. He’s not a bore. And as the author of a bo

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Charles Darwin wed his cousin Emma and spawned 10 children, including four brilliant scientists. Albert Einstein’s second wife Elsa was his first cousin. Queen Victoria said “I do” to hers. So have millions worldwide. In parts of Saudi Arabia, 39% of all marriages are between first cousins.
In the U. S., though, the practice bears a stigma of inbreeding just this side of incest. The taboo is not only social hut legislative; 24 states ban the marriage of first cousins: five others allow it only if the couple is unable to bear children. A major reason for this ban is the belief that kids of first cousins are tragically susceptible to serious congenital illnesses.
That view may have to change. A comprehensive study published recently in the Journal of Genetic Counseling indicates such children run an only slightly higher risk of significant genetic disorders like congenital heart defects — about two percentage points above the average 3% to 4%
A. resembles incest in nature.
B. puts cousin couples to shame.
C. always causes serious genetic disorders.
D. is a common phenomenon across the world.