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  3. A controversial decision on whether choice cuts of steak and cartons of milk produced from cloned animals are suitable for the d

A controversial decision on whether choice cuts of steak and cartons of milk produced from cloned animals are suitable for the d

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问题     A controversial decision on whether choice cuts of steak and cartons of milk produced from cloned animals are suitable for the dinner table is now long overdue.
    Hundreds of pigs, cows and other animals created with the help of cloning are living (1)_____ farms across the United States and (2)_____ the forthcoming ruling will directly (3)_____ American consumers, British holidaymakers may also (4)_____ themselves at the forefront of a food revolution that many commentators expect will (5)_____ arrive here.
    (6)_____ the birth of Dolly the sheep—the first mammal cloned from an adult cell—there were extreme predictions of herds of genetically (7)_____ bulls and pastures (8)_____ with cloned dairy cows.
    That double (9)_____ of the past decade has not yet been realized (10)_____ clones have become a familiar sight at agricultural fairs in America, where producers of (11)_____ pigs and cattle have been among the first to (12)_____ cloning, which offers a way to keep (13)_____ traits without inbreeding problems caused by traditional methods. Clones of rare and elite animals, including sheep, goats, and rabbits, (14)_____ a way to improve animal healthy, (15)_____ the nutritional value of meat and milk, and breed animals immune (16)_____ diseases or better suited for developing countries.
    The safety of cloned (17)_____ has been under examination by various bodies. Three years ago the US National Academy of Science concluded that (18)_____ available data indicated that cloning met animal welfare and food safety considerations, more information was needed. (19)_____ scientific evidence suggests that there is little (20)_____ for alarm, at least on food-safety grounds.

选项 A、reason
B、occasion
C、account
D、cause
答案D
解析 词汇辨析题。结尾句对前文做出总结，认为克隆产品在食品安全方面是没问题的，因此没有理由对这些克隆产品感到担心，所以选cause，意为"原因，理由"。reason，occasion，account这些名词意指带来或关于某种影响或结果的原因。reason用来解释某种效果的发生或性质；occasion是一种允许或激发既存原因发生作用的情形；account指某一特别行为的理由。
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