In 2010, a federal judge shook America’s biotech industry to its core. Companies had won patents for isolated DNA for decades—by 2005 some 20% of human genes were parented. But in March 2010 a judge ruled that genes were unpatentable. Executives were violently agitated. The Biotechnology Industry Organisation (BIO), a trade group, assured members that this was just a "preliminary step" in a longer battle.
On July 29th they were relieved, at least temporarily. A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision, ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed holb patents to two genes that help forecast a woman’s risk of breast cancer. The chief executive of Myriad, a company in Utah, said the ruling was a blessing to firms and patients alike.
But as companies continue their attempts at personalised medicine, the courts will remain rather busy. The Myriad case itself is probably not over Critics make three main arguments against gene patents:
A. the supreme court was authoritative
B. the BIO was a powerful organization
C. gene patenting was a great concern
D. lawyers were keen to attend conventions
Passage Four
Bond had walked for only a few minutes when it suddenly occurred to him that he was being followed. There was no evidence for it except a slight tingling(隐隐作痛) of the scalp(头皮) and an extra awareness of the people near him, but he had faith in his sixth sense and he at once stopped in front of the shop window he was passing and looked casually back along 46th Street. Nothing but a lot of miscellaneous people moving slowly on the sidewalks, mostly on the same side as himself, the side that was sheltered from the sun. There was no sudden movement into a doorway, nobody casually wiping his face with a handkerchief to avoid recognition, nobody bending down to tie a shoelace.
Bond examined the Swiss watches in his shop window and then turned and sauntered on. After a few yards he stopped again. Still nothing. He went on and turned fight into the Avenue of the Americans, stopping in the first doorway, the entrance to a women’s underwear
A. Put up your hands.
B. Don't move or I'll shoot you.
C. If you want to have lunch, you must listen to me.
D. You go first slowly and we'll have lunch together.
| Widespread losses of plant species and
varieties are eroding the foundations of agricultural productivity and
threatening other plant-based products used by billions of people worldwide.
Plants provide us with irreplaceable resources. The genetic diversity of
cultivated plants is essential lo breeding more productive and disease-resistant
crop varieties. But with changes in agriculture that diversity is slipping
away. Biotechnology is no solution to this loss of genetic diversity. We are increasingly skillful at moving genes around, but only nature can create them. If a plant with a unique genetic trait disappears, there is no way to get it back. The effects of plant loss extend far beyond agriculture. One in every four medicines prescribed in the U.S. is based on a chemical compound originally found in a plant. Worldwi A. it is not widely used by all the countries in the world. B. it cannot make new genes. C. it is only effect in cultivated plants. D. the genes it moves from one plant to another are dangerous to human beings. [单选题]昼间( )信号的显示方式是展开的绿色信号旗单臂平伸，在距离停留车五车（约55m）时连续下压二次。
A.三车距离 B.五车距离 C.十车距离 D.一车距离 [单选题]单位时间内通过某断面的液压流体的体积,称为( )
A.流量 B.排量 C.容量 D.流速 我来回答: 提交
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