历年考研英语阅读理解mp3(99-4)

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Imagine being able to override Mother Nature and hand-pick the physical appearance and intellectual traits of your unborn child. Well, thanks to modern science, what may seem far-fetched now could be

SSS 2009-12-10

Little girls are made of sugar and spice and, according to a study published in the journal Cell, a fierce determination to maintain their girlishness. Because it seems that a single gene keeps their ovaries from turning into testes. Scientists have

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Broadcast: January 7, 2003 By Mario Ritter This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Rice is the world's most important crop. Much has been done to increase its productivity. Modern genetic

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全麦产品可以有效预防冠状心脏病，不过最少要含0.75克的全麦可溶纤维…… Whole grain barley and other products containing whole or milled barley are now allowed to claim th

How far should science go to help the sick and the suffering

Jackie: Welcome to BBC Learning English dot com and Insight Plus - a series first broadcast in 2001 that looks at the language of issues you hear about in the news. How far should science go to help the sick and the suffering? Today on Insight Plus,

CNN 2010-05-15

Misconception. A stunning story especially for couples having trouble having kids. One Michigan couple learning that their frozen embryos were gone, implanted into another woman by mistake. They were understandably flooded by the news -- or floored b

超级富豪也将成为健康超人

If the human genome is the book of life, then Crispr technology is its Microsoft Word. The cut-and-paste technique, invented only three years ago, can be used on fledgling genomes to snip out bits of DNA and, if required, insert new stretches. 如果说

美国国家公共电台 NPR Embryo Experiments Reveal Earliest Human Development, But Stir Ethical Debate

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Scientists doing embryo research are facing some sensitive questions over a new generation of scientific experiments, questions like how long should scientists be allowed to keep human embryos alive in their labs to study them? A

美国国家公共电台 NPR Editing Embryo DNA Yields Clues About Early Human Development

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For the first time, scientists have altered the DNA in human embryos to make a fundamental discovery about early human development. Scientists say this proves that modifying genes and human embryos can reveal powerful insights into

U.S. study concludes rice originates in China

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Rice originated(起源) in China, a team of U.S. genome researchers has concluded in a study tracing back thousands of years of evolutionary（进化的） history through large-scale gene re-sequencing. Their findings,

Issue 97 新版“七宗罪”

Now have you sinned since our last broadcast? The Catholic church is worried people aren't taking sins seriously enough. So the Vatican has decided to update its list of the seven deadly sins. But whereas the focus of the traditional sins--LUST, GREE

2006年VOA标准英语-US Senate Expected to Approve Funding of Embryo

By Deborah Tate Washington 17 July 2006 The U.S. Senate Tuesday is expected to approve federal funding for expanded embryonic stem cell research, despite a veto threat from President Bush who opposes the idea on moral grounds. -------- On the eve of

柬埔寨大米出口增长126％

布拉格恢复地铁运营 PRAGUE, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Prague resumed the operation of all its three metro lines on Thursday morning after a four-day closure amidst flooding threats from the Vltava River, the Prague Public Transport Company (DPP) has

20 top predictions for life 100 years from now

20 top predictions for life 100 years from now Last week we asked readers for their predictions of life in 100 years time. Inspired by ten 100-year predictions made by American civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins in 1900, many of you wrote in with yo

“二胎”政策将在明年推出

Reporter: A universal two-child policy is expected to be passed by the top legislature by the end of the week as it concludes its latest bimonthly session on Sunday. The new rules would come into effect on January 1. Zhai Zhenwu, Head of the China Po

新西兰英语 164 Embryo donation

During the weekend, 2 couples and their families invited the media newspapers, TV and radio to interview them about embryo donation. The first couple had two teenage boys and the second couple had a 3-month old baby girl. Couple 1s 16 year old son wa

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Chapter Eight OUTSIDE, in the dust and among the garbage (there were four dogs now), Bernard and John were walking slowly up and down. So hard for me to realize, Bernard was saying, to reconstruct. As though we were l

Flower & Rice

Two Americans laid a wreath (花圈）on a comrade's grave and saw, nearby, a Japanese laying rice on the grave of a countryman. One American asked, When do you expect your comrade to come and eat that rice?The Japanese replied, When your friend come

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Leaders 社论 Gene editing 基因编辑 The baby crisperer 婴儿保险盒 A Chinese scientist claims to have edited the genomes of two babies 中国科学家声称已成功编辑两名婴儿的基因 Humanity's power to control the four-letter code