首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Read the following text and decide which answer best fits each space. For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on y
Read the following text and decide which answer best fits each space. For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on y
admin
2017-04-19
210
问题
Read the following text and decide which answer best fits each space.
For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet.
Museum Science
When deadly virus outbreaks occur, scientists want to know where the disease is coming from and how to stop it. In their search for【C1】______. some will pay a visit to their local museum. They are not trying to take their minds off the outbreak.【C2】______. they come to sift through the museum’s historic collections, looking for【C3】______that might help them save lives.
For instance, in the 1990s, there was an【C4】______of hantavirus in New Mexico and nearby states. The sometimes-deadly disease【C5】______flulike symptoms and difficulty breathing. At the time, no one knew the【C6】______of the outbreak. Some people even suspected terrorists might have【C7】______the germs as a biological weapon.
But Robert Baker and his coworkers wondered if a rodent might be to【C8】______This biologist is a director at the Natural Science Research Laboratory at the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Baker knew mice and rats can【C9】______viruses to humans. So he turned to the lab’s stores of dried and frozen tissues for help. Those【C10】______included some collected decades earlier from New Mexico rodents.
His team analyzed deer-mouse lung samples that had been【C11】______in a freezer since the 1980s. Some indeed【C12】______hantavirus. This showed the germ existed in New Mexico long
38 the state’s human outbreak developed. The finding suggested biological weaponry was not outbreak’s source. Most【C14】______, it pointed to how people could limit infection with the 【C15】______virus: Keep deer-mice out of their garages and homes.
Robert Bradley now works【C16】______the museum’s curator of mammals. He says the episode taught him an important【C17】______Collections like the one he manages let scientists travel back in 【C18】______to answer important questions. "One hundred years from now,【C19】______knows the questions that will be asked?" But, he notes, if samples from the past are【C20】______. they can help future scientists answer their questions.
【C20】
选项
A、valuable
B、available
C、old
D、expensive
答案
B
解析
“available”的意思是“现实可用的”。当科学家提出问题的时候,如果过去被储存下来的样本在手边是现实可用的,那么它们将帮助科学家回答问题。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/l19d777K
本试题收录于:
BFT阅读题库国际化人才外语考试(BFT)分类
0
BFT阅读
国际化人才外语考试(BFT)
相关试题推荐
Lookatthefollowingstatement:Beingcreativeisthekeytocareersuccess.Doyouagreeordisagreew
Yougotaletterfromacompanymanager,JimGreen.Dec.1st,20
Lookatthefollowingadvertisement.ChinaDailyWewouldliketohearyouropinionsaboutthei
Youareaskedtowriteacompositioninwhichyougiveyourownopinionsonthefollowingstatement:Trafficandhousingpro
HereisaletterfromColoradoStateUniversitytoinformtheapplicantMr.LithathehasbeenadmittedtoCognitivePsychology
HereisaletterfromColoradoStateUniversitytoinformtheapplicantMr.LithathehasbeenadmittedtoCognitivePsychology
HereisaletterfromColoradoStateUniversitytoinformtheapplicantMr.LithathehasbeenadmittedtoCognitivePsychology
HereisanadvertisementaboutaBusinessBookClub.Readtheadvertisementandcompletethegiveninformationform.Wri
Youareaskedtowriteacompositioninwhichyougiveyourownopinionsonthefollowingstatement:Trafficandhousingpro
Readthefollowingarticleandanswerquestions19-25.Forquestions19-25,choosethecorrectanswerA,B,CorD.Mark
随机试题
出入境检验检疫的工作成果主要表现为检验检疫机构出具的各种证书、证明,一般称之为()
不符合足月儿病理性黄疸临床特点的是
最先提出公法与私法划分的罗马法学家是谁?划分标准是:
某项目采用公开招标方式选择咨询服务单位,甲、乙、丙三家工程咨询单位参加投标,评标委员会采用质量成本评估法评标,最终乙咨询单位中标。乙咨询单位编制了该项目的咨询工作初始进度计划,如图6-1所示,图中各项工作均按最早开始时间安排,各工作名称下方注明了
公路工程在建项目,事故报告单位为()。
背景某民航机场,飞行区指标为4E,近期机场当局拟对站坪和目视助航设施进行改扩建,并新增航管设备。建设单位对立项工程计划造价为:站坪工程20000万元,航管安装工程2000万元,目视助航工程1600万元。建设单位拟通过招标选择三项工程专业施工单位。在投标的
以下属于其他应付款的是( )。
民事法律行为应当具备下列条件()
WhatdowemeanbyaperfectEnglishpronunciation?Inone【C1】______thereareasmanydifferentkindsofEnglishastherearesp
Ithoughthavingababywouldhurtmywritingcareer.Iwaswrong.A)Ialmostdidn’thaveachildbecauseofmycareerasa
最新回复
(
0
)