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Imagine a world where your doctor could help you avoid sickness,using knowledge of your genes as well as how you live your life.Or where he would prescribe drugs he knew would work and not have debilitating side-effects.

Such a future is arriving faster than most realise:genetic tests are already widely used to identify patients who will be helped or harmed by certain drugs.And three years ago,in the face of a torrent of new scientific data,a number of new companies set themselves up to interpret this information for customers.Through shop fronts on the internet,anyone could order a testing kit.spit into a tube and send off their DNA—with results downloaded privately at home.Already customers can find out their response to many common medications,such as antivirals and blood-thinning agents.They can also explore their genetic likelihood of developing deep—vein thrombosis,skin cancer or glaucoma.

The industry has been subject to conflicting criticisms.On the one hand,it stands accused of offering information too dangerous to trust to consumers;on the other it is charged with peddling irrelevant,misleading nonsense.For some rare disorders,such as Huntington’s and Tay—Sachs,genetic information is a diagnosis.But most diseases are more complicated and involve several genes,or an environmental component,or both.Someone’s chance of getting skin cancer,for example,will depend on whether he worships the sun as well as on his genes.

  • America’s Government Accountability Office(GAO)report also revealed what the industry has openly admitted for years:that results of disease—prediction tests from different companies sometimes conflict with one another,because there is no industry
  • Governments hate this sort of anarchy and America’s,in particular,is considering regulation.But three things argue against wholesale regulation.First,the level of interference needs to be based on the level of risk a test represents.The government doe
  • Instead,then,of reacting in a hostile fashion to the trend for people to take genetic tests,governments should be asking themselves how they can make best use of this new source of information.Restricting access to tests that inform. people about bad re
  • Current genetic tests are able to______.
  • A.identify customers’response to common medications
  • B.diagnose customers’health state in the future
  • C.judge customers’genetic inclination to some diseases
  • D.find the cause for some diseases,such as glaucoma
试题出自试卷《2013年考研《英语》(一)终极突破卷六》
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    (47)Not only has Zara—the flagship store of private textile company Inditex-distinguished itself by tightly integrating its design and manufacturing systems,but its clothing has filled an untapped niche.“Armani at m oderate prices.”says one Goldman Sachs analyst. The forlnula seems to be paying off:Zara,which is responsible for nearly 80%of Inditex’S revenues,opened its first store in 1975 and has since expanded to more than 400 stores in 25 countries.Though it doesn’t generate as much in revenues as the Gap($11.6 billion)or Swedish clothier H&M(about$3.6 billion).Zara’s parent had sales of about$2 billion last year.which represented a 26%increase from 1998.The company’s profits were up 34%,to around$186 million.Last year.

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