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美国城市:

1.               :美国首都,位于哥伦比亚特区。

2.               :人口最多的城市,也是最大的               

3.               :太平洋沿岸的最大港口城市和经济、文化中心。

4.                     (又称旧金山):太平洋沿岸的                                 、教育和文化中心。该市的“                ”是世界最大的高新技术产业区。

5.                    :交通中心,                       曾是它重要的传统工业。。

6.底特律:                工业中心。

7.匹兹堡:               工业中心。

8.西雅图:美国最大的              制造基地。

9.            :新兴的宇航工业中心。

答案

1.华盛顿

2.纽约;港口

3.洛杉矶

4.圣弗朗西斯科;金融;贸易;硅谷

5.芝加哥;畜牧产业加工

6.汽车

7.钢铁

8.飞机

9.休斯顿

阅读理解

Human cloning technology could be used to reserve heart attacks. Scientists believe that they may be able to treat heart attack by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that have been damaged, and other problems may be solved if human cloning and its technology are not forbidden.

With cloning, infertile couples could have children. Current treatments for infertility, in terms of percentages, are not very successful. Couples go through physical and emotionally painful procedures for a small chance of having children. Many couples run out of time and money without successfully having children. Human cloning could make it possible for many more infertile couples to have children than ever before.

We should be able to clone the bone marrow(骨髓) for children and adults suffering from leukemia(白血病). This is expected to be one of the first benefits to come from cloning technology. We may learn how to switch cells on and off through cloning and thus be able to cure cancer.

Cloning technology can be used to test for and perhaps cure gene-related diseases. The above is just a few examples of what human cloning technology can do for mankind. This new technology promises unprecedented (前所未有的)advancement in medicine if people will release their fears and let the benefit begin.

小题1:What does the underlined word “infertile” (paragraph 2) most probably mean?

A.with physical and emotional problems

B.short of time and money

C.unable to give birth to children

D.separated from each other for a long time小题2:According to the text, one of the first expected benefits from cloning technology is in ______.

A.the treatment of mental diseases

B.the reserve of heart diseases

C.the cure of gene-related diseases

D.the bearing of babies小题3:According to the writer, the main problem with the development of human cloning technology is that__________.

A.it has brought about benefits so far

B.it may be out of human control

C.people still know little about it

D.people are afraid of such technology

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