3．How far would you be willing to go to satisfy your need to know？Far enough to find out your possibility of dying from a terrible disease？These days that's more than an academic question，as Tracy Smith reports in our Cover Story．
There are now more than a thousand genetic（基因的）tests，for everything from baldness to breast cancer，and the list is growing．Question is，do you really want to know what might eventually kill you？For instance，Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson，one of the first people to map their entire genetic makeup，is said to have asked not to be told if he were at a higher risk for Alzheimer'（老年癡呆癥）．
"If I tell you that you have an increased risk of getting a terrible disease，that could weigh on your mind and make you anxious，through which you see the rest of your life as you wait for that disease to hit you．It could really mess you up．"Said Dr．Robert Green，a Harvard geneticist．
"Every ache and pain，"Smith suggested，could be understood as"the beginning of the end．""That's right．If you ever worried you were at risk for Alzheimer's disease，then every time you can't find your car in the parking lot，you think the disease has started．"
Dr．Green has been thinking about this issue for years．He led a study of people who wanted to know if they were at a higher genetic risk for Alzheimer's．It was thought that people who got bad news would，for lack of a better medical term，freak out．But Green and his team found that there was"no significant difference"between how people handled good news and possibly the worst news of their lives．In fact，most people think they can handle it．People who ask for the information usually can handle the information，good or bad，said Green．
71．The first paragraph is meant toB．
A．a(chǎn)sk some questions              
B．introduce the topic
C．satisfy readers'curiosity         
D．describe an academic fact
72．Which of the following is true of James Watson？D
A．He is strongly in favor of the present genetic tests．
B．He is more likely to suffer from Alzheimer's disease．
C．He believes genetic mapping can help cure any disease．
D．He doesn't want to know his chance of getting a disease．
73．According to Paragraphs 3 and 4，if a person is at a higher genetic risk，it isA．
A．a(chǎn)dvisable not to let him know       
B．impossible to hide his disease
C．better to inform him immediately
D．necessary to remove his anxiety
74．The underlined part"freak out"in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to"A"．
A．break down        B．drop out     C．leave off        D．turn away
75．The study led by Dr．Green indicates that peopleC．
A．prefer to hear good news    
B．tend to find out the truth
C．can accept some bad news    
D．have the right to be informed．

分析 這篇文章主要討論了人們愿不愿意知道自己得了病，人們認(rèn)為知道可能得什么病會有思想負(fù)擔(dān)，但Dr．Robert Green的研究表明人們是可以接受壞消息的．

解答 BDAAC
71  B  寫作意圖題：根據(jù)第一段得知作者提出兩個(gè)問題為了引出話題：人們愿不愿意知道自己得了病，故選B．
72   D  細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson，one of the first people to map their entire genetic makeup，is said to have asked not to be told if he were at a higher risk for  Alzheimer'（老年癡呆癥）．可知James Watson不想得知得病的機(jī)會．，故選D．
73   A  細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)If I tell you that you have an increased risk of getting a terrible disease，that could weigh on your mind and make you anxious，through which you see the rest of your 1ife as you wait for that disease to hit you．It could really mess you up可知如果人們知道可能得什么病，會有思想負(fù)擔(dān)，所以最好不要告訴他們，故選A．
74   A  猜詞題：根據(jù)It was thought that people who got bad news would，for lack of a better medical term，．可知得到壞消息的人會崩潰，故選A．
75   C   推理題，從最后一段In fact，most people think they can handle it．People who ask for the information usually can handle the information，good or bad，said Green．可知Dr．Robert Green的研究表明人們是可以接受壞消息的，選C．

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C．None of them can tell the difference between blue and green．
D．All of them see everything in shades of green．
55．We can attract and kill mosquitoes by using aC．
A．red light     B．yellow light     C．blue light      D．green light．

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