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Today, I’m going to share a story with you. A king had a wise advisor 小题1:______ best advice for the king was, “Everything happens for the good”.One day the King went hunting and injured 小题2:_______ by shooting an arrow at his own foot. He asked the advisor what he thought about the accident. The advisor replied, “Everything happens for the good”. This time the King was really angry and ordered 小题3: _________(put) his advisor into prison.

The King later went on a hunting trip 小题4:_________ the advisor this time. The King was then captured by some cannibals(食人者). He was taken to the cannibals' camp 小题5:_________ he was to be the evening meal for the cannibals. Before putting him into the cooking pot he 小题6:_________(inspect) thoroughly. The cannibals saw 小题7:________ wound on the King’s foot and decided to throw him back into the jungle. According to the cannibals' tradition, they would not eat anything that was 小题8:________ (perfect). The King suddenly realized 小题9:________ his advisor said was true. The advisor also escaped death because if he 小题10:__________(not be) in prison, he would have followed the King on the hunting trip, and would have ended up in the cooking pot.

答案

小题1:whose

小题2:himself

小题3:to put  

小题4:without

小题5:where

小题6:was inspected

小题7:the

小题8:imperfect

小题9:what

小题10:had not been

题目分析:

小题1:这里包含一个定语从句,且关系词在从句中作定语,故用whose。

小题2:这里表示伤到了自己,故用反身代词himself。

小题3:order to do sth. 是固定用法,意思是命令做某事。

小题4:这里表示后来国王又去打猎,这次没有这位劝告者在身边,故用without。

小题5:这里含有一个定语从句,且关系词在从句中作地点状语,故用where。

小题6:he与inspect之间是被动关系,故用被动语态。

小题7:特指国王脚上的这个伤口,故填定冠词the。

小题8:这里表示“不完美”,且作表语,故用形容词imperfect。

小题9:这里含有一个宾语从句,且引导词在从句中作宾语,表示“什么”的意思,故用what。

小题10:对过去情况的虚拟,条件句中用过去完成时。

点评:做这类题,不但要选择正确意义的词、词组及句型,还要根据具体语法和语境,选择适当的时态、语态及使用正确的词形。

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[A] However, the production of TG is controlled by an enzyme that is, in turn, encoded by a gene called UGT2B17. This gene comes in two varieties, one of which has a part missing and therefore does not work properly. A person may thus have none, one or two working copies of UGT2B17, since he inherits one copy from each parent. Dr Schulze guessed that different numbers of working copies would produce different test results. She therefore gave healthy male volunteers whose genes had been examined a single 360mg shot of testosterone (the standard dose for legitimate medical use) and checked their urine to see whether the shot could be detected.

[B] Dr Schulze also says there is substantial ethnic variation in UGT2B17 genotypes. Two-thirds of Asians have no functional copies of the gene (which means they have a naturally low ratio of TG to EG), compared with under a tenth of Caucasians--something the anti-doping bodies may wish to take into account.

[C] The test usually employed for testosterone abuse relies on measuring the ratio of two chemicals found in the urine, testosterone glucuronide (TG) and epitestosterone glucuronide (EG). The former is produced when testosterone is broken down, while the latter is unrelated to testosterone metabolism, and can thus serve as a reference point for the test. Any ratio above four of the former to one of the latter is, according to official Olympic policy, considered suspicious and leads to more tests.

[D] The result was remarkable. Nearly half of the men who carried no functional copies of UGT2B17 would have gone undetected in the standard doping test. By contrast, 14% of those with two functional copies of the gene were over the detection threshold before they had even received an injection. The researchers estimate this would give a false-positive testing rate of 9% in a random population of young men.

[E] The agencies have had remarkable success. Testing for anabolic steroids (in other words, artificial testosterone) was introduced in the 1970s, and the incidence of cheating seems to have fallen dramatically as a result (see chart). The tests, however, are not foolproof. And a study just published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism by Jenny Jakobsson Schulze and her colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden suggests that an individual’s genetic make-up could confound them in two different ways. One genotype, to use the jargon, may allow athletes who use anabolic steroids to escape detection altogether. Another may actually be convicting the innocent.

[F] Cheating in sport is as old as sport itself. The athletes of ancient Greece used potions to fortify themselves before a contest, and their modern counterparts have everything from anabolic steroids and growth hormones to doses of extra red blood cells with which to invigorate their bodies. These days, however, such stimulants are frowned on, and those athletes must therefore run the gauntlet of organisations such as the World Anti-Doping Agency, which would rather they competed without resorting to them.

[G] In the meantime, Dr Schulze’ s study does seem to offer innocents a way of defending themselves. Athletes travelling to Beijing for the Olympic games later this year may be wise to travel armed not only with courage and the "spirit of Olympianism", but also with a copy of their genetic profile, just in case.

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