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Barack Obama, in his state-of-the-union speech on February 12th, called for a new era of scientific discovery. " Now it is the t

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问题     Barack Obama, in his state-of-the-union speech on February 12th, called for a new era of scientific discovery. " Now it is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the space race," he declared. He praised projects to map the human brain and accelerate regenerative medicine. This would mean spending more on research. As The Economist went to press, America’s government was about to do the opposite.
    Federal spending is due to be cut on March 1st, the result of a long brawl over the deficit. Complex politics triggered this"sequester"(Congress excels at nothing if not elaborate dysfunction)but the sequester itself is brutally simple. America will cut $ 85 billion from this year’s budget(about 2.5% of spending), split between military and non-military programmes. Among the areas to be squeezed is R&D, and medical research in particular.
    For years America has enjoyed pre-eminence in research, but this is fading. Chinese investment(including both public and private money)more than quintupled from 2000 to 2010, to $ 160 billion, in 2005 prices. America’s R&D spending rose by just 22% over that period, according to the OECD. Research also make up a smaller portion of America’s economy than some other countries’. In a ranking of R&D spending as a share of GDP, America came tenth in 2011. A decade earlier it was sixth.
    Nevertheless, America remains the world’s biggest engine for innovation. It spent $ 366 billion on research in 2011 , compared with $ 275 billion by all 27 countries of the European Union. Despite China’s rapid ascent, America still spends more than twice as much on R&D. Subsidies help. America’s government pays for about one-third of all domestic research and for most basic science.
    Medicine is one of the main beneficiaries. America’s National Institutes of Health(NIH)is the world’s biggest funder of biomedical research. It pays for risky basic science; companies pay for later stages of development. For example, the NIH supported early research into monoclonal antibodies. By 2010 such research underpinned five of America’s 20 bestselling drugs. As drug firms trim their budget, the NIH’s work is becoming even more vital. But since 2003 , inflation-adjusted spending on medical research has declined.
We can infer from the first paragraph that______.
选项 A、U. S. will spend more on research
B、Obama objected to the project to map the human brain
C、Obama praised scientists’ endeavour on scientific research
D、regenerative medicine is an area America focuses on for long
答案C
解析 根据选项[A]定位到文章首段最后两句：This would mean spending more on re—search．As The Economist went to press，America’s government was about to do the opposite．最后一句意为：美国政府却将反其道而行。可见美国不会在研究领域投入更多开支，因此选项[A]是错误的。选项[B]对应该段第三句：He praised projects to map the human brain and accelerateregenerative medicine．可见Obama对于绘制人脑图的态度是支持的，而非反对的，故该项错误。根据“…called for a new era of scientific discovery”以及“He praised projects to map the hu—man brain and accelerate regenerative medicine”可知选项[C]项是正确的。文章提到了regener—ative medicine，但并没有说美国关注这个领域已经很久了，for long一词在原文未体现，故选项[D]错误。
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