2010年12月大学英语六级考试全真预测试题

　　57. The 386 piglets wrongfully sold into food supply are from ________.

　　[A] Europe [B] an American research organization

　　[C] a meat processing plant [D] an animal farm

　　58. The purpose of the transgenic engineering research is to ________.

　　[A] get pigs of larger size in a shor ter time

　　[B] make sows produce more milk

　　[C] make cows produce more milk

　　[D] make pigs grow more lean meat

　　59. The 4th paragraph shows that the University of Illinois ________.

　　[A] was criticized by the FDA

　　[B] is in great trouble

　　[C] is required by the FDA to call back the sold piglets

　　[D] may have to pay the penalty

　　60. The FDA declares that the wrongfully sold piglets ________.

　　[A] may have side effects on consumers [B] may be harmful to consumers

　　[C] are safe to consumers [D] may cause human illness

　　61. It can be inferred from this passage that ________.

　　[A] all the offspring have their mothers' genetic engineering

　　[B] part of the offspring have their mothers' genetic engineering

　　[C] none of the offspring have their mothers' genetic engineering

　　[D] half of the offspring have their mothers' genetic engineering

　　Passage Two

　　Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.

　　A class action lawsuit has been filed against a prominent Toronto doctor by patients who allege he injected a banned substance into their faces for cosmetic purposes. The doctor had already been investigated for more than three years for using the liquid silicone, a product not authorized for use in Canada.

　　Some patients say they are now suffering health problems and think the liquid silicone may be to blame. One of those patients is Anna Barbiero. She says her Toronto dermatologist told her he was using liquid silicone to smooth out wrinkles. what she says he didn't tell her is that it isn't approved for use in Canada. "I didn't know what liquid silicone was and he just called it 'liquid gold'," Barbiero remembers. After her last treatment, Anna discovered Dr. Sheldon Pollack had been ordered to stop using the silicone two years earlier by Health Canada. Experts say silicone can migrate through the body, and cause inflammation and deformities.

　　"My upper lip is always numb and it burns," Barbiero says. Barbiero is spearheading(带头)a lawsuit against the doctor, who her lawyer thinks might involve up to 100 patients injected with the same material. "The fact, a physician of his stature would use an unauthorized product on a patient because he thought it was okay, is really very disturbing," says lawyer Douglas Elliott.

　　Ontario's College of Physicians and Surgeons is also investigating Dr. Pollack to see if, in fact, he continued to use the silicone after agreeing to stop and whether he wrote in patient records that he used another legal product when he used silicone. However, in a letter to the College, Dr. Pollack wrote that he had always told patients that the silicone was not approved for sale in Canada, and had warned them of the risks. And in Barbiero's case, "...at the time of her first visit, prior to her ever receiving IGLS treatment, I specifically informed her that the material was not approved for sale in Canada by the Health Protection Branch and that I d id receive the material from outside the country ...I would like to emphasize that, as is evident on Ms. Barbiero's chart, I drew a specific diagram on the chart which I carefully discussed with and explained to Ms. Barbiero as I did with every other patient to explain the nature and likelihood of complications and the reasons and consequences of those possible complications."

　　Dr. Pollack declined to speak to CTV News, or to have his lawyer discuss the case. None of the allegations have been proven in court. But the case raises questions about the ability of governing bodies to monitor doctors. "There's a larger message and that is: buyer beware," says Nancy Neilsen of Cosmetic Surgery Canada, "It's incumbent(负有义务的)on consumers to do their research."