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Among all the fast growing science and technology, the research of human genes, or biological engineering as people call it, is drawing more and more attention now. Sometimes it is a hot topic discussed by people.

The greatest thing that gene technology can do is to cure serious diseases that doctors at present can almost do nothing with, such as cancer and heart disease. Every year, millions of people are murdered by these two killers. And to date, doctors have not found an effective way to cure them. But if the gene technology is applied, not only these two diseases can be cured completely, bringing happiness and more living days to the patients, but also the great amount of money people spend on curing their diseases can be saved, therefore it benefits the economy as well. In addition, human life span (寿命) can be prolonged.

Gene technology can help people to give birth to more healthy and clever children. Some families have hereditary diseases. This means their children will for sure have the family disease, which is a great trouble for these families. In the past, doctors could do nothing about hereditary diseases. But gene technology can solve this problem perfectly. The scientist just need to find the wrong gene and correct it, and a healthy child will be born.

Some people are worrying that the gene research can be used to manufacture human beings in large quantities. In the past few years, scientists have succeeded in cloning a sheep, therefore these people predict that human babies would soon be cloned. But I believe cloned babies will not come out in large quantities, for most couples in the world can have babies in very normal way and they also believe measures will be taken to control gene technology.

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英国伦敦一中学组织部分学生在寒假期间对足球起源地——临淄进行参观、游览，他们需要一名中学生英语导游。假如你是李华，请写一封自荐信，自荐理由包括以下三个方面：

（1）英语口语流畅，曾做过博物馆的志愿解说员。

（2）性格优势：热情、开朗，擅长与人沟通……

（3）了解临淄本地文化。

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Dr．Barone has helped many kids smile who were born with defects(缺陷)，including me．She did my first operations when I was a baby，which were the most important and1.(effect)．

I don’t remember the first two operations very well．but I do recall2.third．Dr．Barone was kind and eased me into the process．She let me choose my sleep medicine，3.(make)sure that I was okay．I recently saw a picture of me before my operation，and I know4.a big job she did．

Dr．Barone5.(operate)on people with all types of birth defects．She also goes to other countries where people cannot afford this treatment and helps them6.free．

Many people benefit from her new ways7.(invent)to fix birth defects of the head and face．She has won many awards．A few of the most recent8.(be)Best Doctors in America 2013-2014，America’s Top Plastic Surgery，and many others．

Dr．Barone was my doctor when I was a kid，and even though I was9.(probable) just another patient to her，to me she was10.(much)than just my doctor．She was and is my hero，and she gave me back my smile．

    Ryan Hickman was born in an American family. When he was three years old, Ryan Hickman visited a _________ center in California and found what he wanted to do most. Amazingly, the next day as he greeted his dad, Damion, he made a(n) _________, “I’m going to pick up all the bottles and cans from everyone in the neighborhood. I’ll start a new _________ myself!”

It’s never too _________ to start a business, though there were no other staff but himself when the company was started. Today, Ryan, aged seven, the worlds _________ garbage man, is the CEO, manager and _________ of Ryan’s Recycling Company. Though Ryan says he doesn’t remember what made it all start, he remains _________ about what he is doing. When questioned why he did so, he said, “It’s _________ bottles get to the ocean, and then animals get sick and die.” Ryan’s neighbors have been _________ to the little boy’s knocking for their recycled goods. More and more __________ ones call to ask for a pickup or even lay down bags of bottles and cans at Hickman’s door. At school, Ryan’s favorite activity is helping the dustmen __________ the trash and taking away the recyclable. “My wife and I support him and we told him that whenever he wants to __________, he can,” Damion said. “I want to see him with friends, but the recycling just makes him delighted. He has actually __________ five of his friends to join him.”

According to Damion, Ryan has __________ over $11,000 through recycling bottles and cans. Ryan says he wants to buy a large trash truck to be __________ with enough garbage and become a true garbage man.

1.A.financial B.recycling C.delivering D.industrial

2.A.bet B.announcement C.speech D.explanation

3.A.investigation B.study C.business D.campaign

4.A.old B.early C.weak D.late

5.A.cleverest B.busiest C.wealthiest D.youngest

6.A.customer B.employer C.trainee D.employee

7.A.enthusiastic B.energetic C.unbearable D.comfortable

8.A.why B.how C.because D.when

9.A.opposed B.supposed C.accustomed D.devoted

10.A.supportive B.instructive C.aggressive D.persuasive

11.A.desert B.separate C.circulate D.weed

12.A.start B.continue C.quit D.back

13.A.persuaded B.urged C.forced D.instructed

14.A.raised B.saved C.wasted D.spent

15.A.surrounded B.entertained C.equipped D.loaded

Why we still need to read Dickens

Walk into any bookstore, and you can hardly avoid “bumping into” Charles Dickens. Many of Dickens’ works still sell well today.1.

As someone who teaches Dickens, the question of why we still read him is often on my mind. 2. One day nearly 10 years ago, however, when I was giving a lecture, I was telling the students that for Victorian readers, Dickens’s writing was a “tune-in-next-week” type of thing that generated crazes. 3. “But why should we still read this stuff?” the student asked. The answer I gave was only acceptable, “Because he teacher you how to think,” I said.

The question annoyed me for years, for years, and for years I told myself answers, but never with complete satisfaction. We read Dickens because he is not just a man of his own times, but also a man for our times. We read Dickens because we can learn from experiences of his characters almost as easily as we can learn from our own experiences.

4. But these are not exactly the reason why I read Dickens. My search for an answer continued until one day a text message came from a student of mine. “We still read Dickens’s novels,” she wrote, “because they tell us why we are what we are.” Simple as it was, that’s the explanation I had sought for years.

Dickens shines a light on who we are during the best of times and wrote of times. 5. If you have time, go to pick up one of his many novels, read it and enjoy what it has to tell you about yourself.

A.Then a hand shot up.

B.I know that wasn’t really the reason.

C.And they are placed on outstanding shelves.

D.That question was never more troubling.

E.That’s why we still need to read him today.

F.I already know who it is I’ll meet in those novels.

G.These are all wonderful reasons to read Dickens.