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2011考研:历年真题来源报刊阅读25篇连载(3)

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  3. A meaty question

  (The Economists Sep 21st, 2006)

  IF YOU have ever longed for a meat substitute that smelt and tasted like the real thing, but did not involve killing an animal, then your order could be ready soon. Researchers believe it will soon be possible to grow cultured meat in quantities large enough to offer the meat industry an alternative source of supply.

  Growing muscle cells (the main component of meat) in a nutrient broth is easy. The difficulty is persuading those cells to form something that resembles real meat. Paul Kosnik, the head of engineering at a firm called Tissue Genesis, is hoping to do it by stretching the cells with mechanical anchors. This encourages them to form small bundles surrounded by connective tissue, an arrangement similar to real muscle.

  Robert Dennis, a biomedical engineer at the University of North Carolina, believes the secret of growing healthy muscle tissue in a laboratory is to understand how it interacts with its surroundings. In nature, tissues exist as elements in a larger system and they depend on other tissues for their survival. Without appropriate stimuli from their neighbours they degenerate. Dr Dennis and his team have been working on these neighbourly interactions for the past three years and report some success in engineering two of the most important—those between muscles and tendons, and muscles and nerves.

  At the Touro College School of Health Sciences in New York, Morris Benjaminson and his team are working on removing living tissue from fish, and then growing it in culture. This approach has the advantage that the tissue has a functioning system of blood vessels to deliver nutrients, so it should be possible to grow tissue cultures more than a millimetre thick—the current limit.

  Henk Haagsman, a meat scientist at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, is trying to make minced pork from cultured stem cells with the backing of Stegeman, a sausage company. It could be used in sausages, burgers and sauces.

  But why would anyone want to eat cultured meat, rather than something freshly slaughtered and just off the bone? One answer, to mix metaphors, is that it would allow vegetarians to have their meatloaf and eat it too. But the sausage-meat project suggests another reason: hygiene. As Ingrid Newkirk of PETA, an animal-rights group, puts it, “no one who considers what’s in a meat hot dog could genuinely express any revulsion at eating a clean cloned meat product.”

  Cultured meat could be grown in sterile conditions, avoiding Salmonella, E. coli, Campylobacter and other nasties. It could also be made healthier by adjusting its composition—introducing heart-friendly omega—3 fatty acids, for example. You could even take a cell from an endangered animal and, without threatening its extinction, make meat from it. Giant-panda steak, anyone?

  1. The word “resemble” (line 2, paragraph 2) most probably means .

  A look like B differ C excel D substitute

  2. Robert Dennis thinks the secret of growing healthy muscle tissue in a laboratory is the relationship between .

  A muscles and tendons B muscles and nerves

  C muscles and surroundings D muscles and animals

  3. What is the advantage of removing living tissues and culture them?

  A It makes the color and taste of cultured meat better.

  B Meat cultured in this way is similar to real meat.

  C Meat cultured in this way can be used in more kinds of food.

  D It is likely to grow tissues more than a millimeter thick.

  4. Cultured meat is better than something freshly slaughtered because it .

  A allows vegetarians far away from meat

  B is cleaner and healthier

  C tastes much better

  D can be made from cells of all endangered animals

  5. Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the passage?

  A Cultured meat will not involve killing animals.

  B Many efforts have been done to culture meat.

  C Most vegetarians long for special meatloaf.

  D It is possible to have panda steak in the future.

  考研词汇

  substitute

  n.代用品,代替品;v.(for)代替,替换

  [真题例句] In talking to some scientists, particularly younger ones, you might gather the impression that they find the “scientific method” a substitute (n.) for imaginative thought.[1999年阅读5]

  [例句精译] 在和一些科学家,特别是年轻科学家交谈时,你可能会有这样一种印象:他们认为“科学方法”可以代替创造性思维。

  resemble

  v.像,类似

  tissue

  n.①织物,薄绢,纸巾;②(动、植物的)组织

  stretch

  v.拉长,延伸;n.①一段时间,一段路程;②延伸

  [真题例句] It is a remarkable record, stretching (v.) back over 70 years—yet the BBCs future is now in doubt.[1996年阅读2]

  [例句精译] 七十多年来,BBC可谓历程辉煌,然而现在,BBC的未来却令人疑虑。

  vessel

  n.①容器,器皿;②船,舰;③管,血管

  [真题例句] Today’s vessels (②) can find their prey using satellites and sonar, which were not available 50 years ago.[2006年阅读3]

  [例句精译] 今天的渔船能够使用五十年前没有的卫星和声纳来追踪他们的猎物。

  slaughter

  n.屠宰,残杀,屠杀;v.屠宰,残杀,屠杀

  更多2011年考研英语复习资料请访问:考研英语复习

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