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在英国权威的科学杂志《自然》上刊登的一篇美国科学家的论文说,研究人员在实验室里把抗虫害转基因玉米“BT玉米”的花粉撒在苦苣菜叶上,然后让蝴蝶幼虫啃食这些菜叶。四天之后,有44%的幼虫死亡,活着的幼虫身体也较小,而且没有精神。而另一组幼虫啃食撒有普通玉米花粉的菜叶,就没有发生类似现象。另据英国科学家的研究,与一般大豆相比,耐除草剂的转基因大豆中,防癌的成分异黄酮减少了。这些结论引起了科学家的担心,也引起了世界范围的不安。
苏格兰科学家普斯陶伊的转基因土豆研究,情况却有所不同。去年秋季,普斯陶伊称,自己一项未经发表的实验结果证明,年幼老鼠食用转基因土豆10天后,其肾脏、脾和消化道都出现损伤,而且免疫系统也遭到破坏,他将这一切归咎于对土豆的基因操作本身。他的结论据说得到了14个国家20名科学家的支持。但英国最具权威的科研机构英国皇家学会宣布,该学会组织的6人专家组经过详细评估发现,他的研究无论在设计上,还是在操作和数据上,都充满漏洞,他的结论无法成立。然而,这场在英国引起并跨出国界的轩然大波却至今未平。
转基因技术是一项先进的生物科学技术,这一点已在世界范围内取得共识。美国是转基因技术最先进的国家,据统计,美国的大学、科研机关和企业等已经开发出上百个转基因作物品种,其中仅有43个品种的安全性得到了美国食品和药物管理局的确认。面临转基因玉米和大豆正在进行大面积种植与大量出口以及由此引发争议的现状,美国国家科学院已经郑重承诺,将就转基因食品的安全性问题展开全面调查。看来,在发展转基因技术的同时,也是应当注意吸取任何一种现代工业技术发展过程中的教训的。
引起“科学家的担心”和“世界范围的不安”的原因是( )

A.“BT玉米”抗虫害能力并不能达到百分之百,某些转基因大豆可能会致癌。
B.某些转基因作物会对生态环境造成污染,还有一些会削弱作物对人体健康的作用。
C.转基因作物会毒杀昆虫或影响昆虫的发育,并会降低人体自身的防癌功能。
D.由于毒素存在,某些转基因作物会污染环境,因此影响人体的健康。
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SECTION B INTERVIEWDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.听力原文: (B -- Bill; L-- Laura)B: Let's see what the White House has in store for the holiday this year. CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante is inside with a very special tour guide, First Lady Laura Bush. Good morning.L: Thank you for having mE.B: Christmas decorations at the White House?L: That's right. It's the most favorite time of the year and we've just, last night, all the decorators who've come from around the country to decorate left and I will set up today to show it ofF.B: I have to, I have to tell ya, I'm used to seeing something much more elaborate in this East Room.L: That's right. This is a simpler...ur...year, really is, we, ur, you have the theme: all things bright and beautiful and what I really wanted to use were fresh, all fresh things, so we have real roses on the tree, aren't they beautiful?B: Real flowers on the tree in...L: Some pieces are, that are up high, with those so we don't have to change those as so often.B: In water, in little vials of water.L: In water, that's right, in little vials of water. And then we are using a lot of fruit. We have the beautiful color of pears on the center pieces for the East Room. This is the, a table that will be set up during receptions here in the East Room. There will be one here and then one in the dinning room, of coursE.B: Wait a minute, where's the food?L: The food will be herE.You are gonna get it this afternoon, oh -- this morning. Urn, in fact that will be our new chef that would, this would be her debut to the press. Cris Comerford, our new White House chef, the first woman cheF.B: First woman chef, right.L: Chef and she will, about 10:30, will be serving all of the press, ur, the big buffet that we will be having at our parties.B: Well, now you got the White House Christmas card of course fight herE.L: The White House Christmas card is in the mail, and it's done by Jamie Wyeth this year, the, um, very renowned American artist Jamie Wyeth, the son of Andrew Wyeth, grandson of NC Wyeth. And it's the beautiful south portico of the White HousE.And we have Barney and Beazley and Kitty down there in the snow. Of course, we had to put them in the carD.And then, if you come to visit the White House during the Christmas, you get the, urn, Christmas brochure, all the guests that come, including all the tours, so we should, we expect about 45,000 people and, on White House tours over the Christmas holidays and every year we've asked a children's book illustrator to illustrate the decorations of the White HousE.And this year the illustrator is Donna Green. And I think she did a really beautiful job of showing how pretty the White House is when it's decorated for Christmas.B: It's always pretty, but it's very different this year. What're these different things to see?L: It's very different, It's much simpler and everything is fresh and real. I think it's really, really pretty and, especially, I think this sort of decoration shows off how elegant the White House is.B: Let me ask you this. Your husband today is giving a major speech about Iraq, to prove that he has a plan because he has been so criticized by many people, because the war keeps dragging on, because that means that there are troops away from Christmas. Does it, first of all, does it bother you when he is criticized the way he has been?L: Well, sure, absolutely, you know, no one likes to see anyone they love criticized, but on the other hand when you look at what really has happened, it's only been three years. Iraq has come a very, very long way. It's really a quite amazingA.It's elaboratE.B.It's simpler than past.C.It's nothing special.D.It's too plain.
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