4.Plant cloning has been an agricultural technique used by farmers and gardeners for centuries.Grafting (嫁接) is a common form of plant cloning.Many plants in nature actually clone themselves and reproduce asexually.
Cloned plants are much more predictable than normal plants,so their yield (產(chǎn)量) is more reliable.Cloned plants also reproduce faster,limiting the amount of time between planting and harvesting.It is also often cheaper to produce seeds through cloning than through traditional methods.Plants can essentially be optimized so that farmers or individual growers always have the best seeds available.With more yield at a faster rate,farms can produce more food for more people while decreasing overall costs.
Cloning can be used to wipe out diseases that previously killed off entire fields of crops.This would make plants immune (免疫的) to the kinds of diseases that farmers and gardeners around the world fear each year.Crop failures due to disease and virus could become a thing of the past.Also,plants that are near extinction can be brought back to life through cloning.
Through cloning scientists can develop"super"fruits and vegetables of superior nutritional quality.This could make for a healthier population overall.This is already being done through selective pollination (授粉),and genetic cloning could take it to the next level.
By plant cloning we have a population of identical plants and all these plants equally suffer from the same diseases,but in nature the weak would die and the strong would survive.While there are some dangers to consider with plant cloning,there are plenty of benefits that could prove vital to the propagation (繁衍) of the human species.
29.The underlined word"optimized"in Paragraph 2can be replaced by"C".
A.enlarged
B.produced
C.perfected
D.examined
30.According to the text,cloned plantsD.
A.have lower yield than normal plants
B.need little care from people
C.resist various kinds of diseases
D.have a short growth cycle
31.What is the main purpose of the text?D
A.To warn the negative effects of plant cloning.
B.To present different kinds of plant cloning.
C.To predict the future of plant cloning.
D.To inform us about the advantages of plant cloning.
分析 本文主要介紹了植物克隆的好處.
解答 29.C,詞義猜測題,根據(jù)so that farmers or individual growers always have the best seeds available"農(nóng)民和個體種植戶總會有最好的種子"可知,optimize與perfect的意思相近.
30.D,細節(jié)理解題,從第二段中的Cloned plants also reproduce faster,limiting the amount of time between planting and harvesting可知,克隆的植物的生長有一個短的生長周期,故答案為D.
31.D,寫作意圖題,本文主要介紹了植物克隆的好處,主要是告訴我們這件事情,故答案為D.
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