阅读理解 Passage Two Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage. More than 100 years ago, American sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what he understood to be social and cultural differences between different populations of people. He spoke out against the idea of "white" and "black" as distinct groups, claiming that these distinctions ignored the scope of human diversity. Science would favor Du Bois. Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning. In an article published in the journal Science, four scholars say racial categories need to be phased out. "Essentially, I could not agree more with the authors," said Svante P??bo, a biologist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes (基因组) of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim. It turned out that Watson and Venter shared fewer variations in their genetic sequences than they each shared with Kim. Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modem genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity. Assumptions about genetic differences between people of different races could be particularly dangerous in a medical setting. "If you make clinical predictions based on somebody's race, you're going to be wrong a good chunk of the time," Yudell told Live Science. In the paper, he and his colleagues used the example of cystic fibrosis, which is underdiagnosed in people of African ancestry because it is thought of as a "white" disease. So what other variables could be used if the racial concept is thrown out? Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like "ancestry" or "population" that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level. The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable. "While we argue phasing out racial terminology (术语) in the biological sciences, we also acknowledge that using race as a political or social category to study racism, although filled with lots of challenges, remains necessary given our need to understand how structural inequities and discrimination produce health disparities (差异) between groups. " Yudell said.
单选题 Du Bois was opposed to the use of race as ________.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】全文翻译 (51)100多年前,美国社会学家W·E·B·杜波依斯担心种族正在被用来从生物学层面解释他所理解的不同人群之间的社会和文化差异。他公开反对将“白人”和“黑人”视为不同群体的观点,声称这些区分忽略了人类多样性的范围。 科学将会证明杜波依斯的观点。如今,科学家们的主流观点是:种族是一种没有生物学意义的社会建构。在《科学》杂志上发表的一篇文章中,四位学者表示种族类别需要被逐步淘汰。 (52—1)“我完全同意这些作者的看法,”斯万特·帕博说道,他是德国马克斯普朗克进化人类学研究所的主任及生物学家。在一个证明了遗传差异不会按照种族界限固定下来的实例中,两位著名的欧裔美国科学家,詹姆斯·沃森和克雷格·文特尔的完整基因组,与韩国科学家金城振的完整基因组进行了对比。结果表明沃森和文特尔共有的基因序列变异少于他们每个人与金城振共有的基因序列变异。 (52—2)费城德雷克塞尔大学的公共卫生学教授迈克尔·亚戴尔说道,现代遗传学研究的操作自相矛盾:一方面,种族被认为是用来说明人类遗传多样性的有用工具,但另一方面,种族又被认为是该多样性界定不清的标志。 关于不同种族的人们存在遗传差异的假设,在医疗环境下可能会特别危险。(53)亚戴尔在美国“生命科学”网站上说道:“如果你是基于某人的种族来做出临床预测,那么你大部分时候都会是错的。”在这篇文章中,他和同事使用了囊性纤维化的例子,该疾病在非裔人身上易漏诊,因为这被认为是“白种人”的疾病。 如果摈弃了种族的概念,那么能使用其他什么变量呢?(54)亚戴尔说道,科学家们需要更具体的语言,或许可以使用像“血统”或“人群”这样的术语,它们也许能更准确地在个体和群体层面上反映出人类与其基因之间的关系。研究人员也承认,有一些地区,种族作为一个概念可能在科学研究中仍有用:当作一个政治和社会变量,而不是生物学变量。 (55)“虽然我们认为在生物科学里要逐渐淘汰种族术语,但我们也承认,考虑到我们需要了解结构性的不平等和歧视是如何使群体之间产生健康差异的,将种族用作研究种族主义的政治或社会范畴仍有必要,尽管这充满了挑战,”亚戴尔说道。 详解详析 由题干中的Du Bois和the use of race定位到文章第一段第一句:More than l00 years ago,American sociologist W.E.B.Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what he understood to be social and cultural differences between different populations of people. 推理判断题。定位句指出,杜波依斯担心种族正在被用来从生物学层面解释他所理解的不同 人群之间的社会和文化差异。也就是说,杜波依斯认为不同人群之间的差异是社会文化差异,而他担心其他人会从种族的层面理解社会文化差异,故答案为C。 A.“解释人类遗传多样性的基础”,无法从定位句推出,故排除;B.“帮助理解不同的人群”,定位句只是提到不同人群之间的社会和文化差异,该选项属于偷换概念,故排除;D.“描述人类个体特性的术语”,原文并未提及这一点,故排除。
单选题 The study by Svante P??bo served as an example to show ________.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】由题干中的The study by Svante P??bo定位到文章第三段第一句:“Essentially,I could not agree more with the authors,”said Svante P??bo,a biologist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.和第四段....modern genetics research is operating in a paradox:on the one hand,race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity,but on the other hand,race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity. 推理判断题。第三段第一句提到斯万特·帕博认为种族类别需要逐步淘汰,接着第四段又提 到现代遗传学研究的操作自相矛盾:一方面,种族被认为是用来说明人类遗传多样性的有用工具,但另一方面,种族又被认为是该多样性界定不清的标志。斯万特· 帕博的研究也属于现代遗传学的研究,由此可知,他的研究作为示例表明种族是人类遗传多样性界定不清的标记,故答案为B.。 A.“现代遗传学研究有可能激化种族冲突”,原文并未提及种族冲突,故排除;C.“作为生物学术语,种族能够解释人类遗传多样性”,第二段后两句提到,如 今,科学家们的主流观点是种族是一种没有生物学意义的社会建构,在《科学》杂志上发表的一篇文章中,四位学者表示种族类别需要逐步淘汰,而斯万特·帕博完 全同意这些作者的看法,由此可知,他并不认为种族是一个生物学术语,因此,C.排除;D.“遗传研究应该考虑社会和文化变量”,第六段最后一句提到研究人 员也承认,有一些地区,种族作为一个概念可能在科学研究中仍有用:当作一个政治和社会变量,而不是生物学变量,但这并非是斯万特·帕博的研究所表现的,故 排除。
单选题 The example of the disease cystic fibrosis underdiagnosed in people of African ancestry demonstrates that ________.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】根据题干中的cystic fibrosis和underdiagnosed in people of African ancestry定位到文章第五段最后两句:“If you make clinical predictions based on somebody’S race,you’re going to be wrong a good chunk of the time.”YudeH told Live Science.In the paper,he and his coHeagues used the example of cystic fibrosis,which is underdiagnosed in people of African ancestry because it is thought of as a“white”disease. 推理判断题。定位句的第一句指出,亚戴尔认为如果临床预测是基于病人的种族做出的,那 么大部分时候结果都是错的,紧接着在下一句里亚戴尔举出囊性纤维化的例子,该疾病被认为是“白种人”的疾病,因此很容易在非裔人身上漏诊,由此可以推出, 亚戴尔以囊性纤维化为例是想说明上一句话里的观点,即对遗传多样性进行种族分类可能导致错误的临床预测,故答案为C.。 A.“诊断时不去考虑种族是绝对必要的”,定位句只是说依据种族做出的临床预测大部分时 候都是错的,该选项的表述过于绝对,故排除;B.“让遗传研究包含社会变量很重要”,第六段最后一句提到社会变量,但该句是指种族作为社会变量可能在科学 研究中仍有用,这是研究人员的观点,并非囊性纤维化的例子想要说明的问题,故排除;D.“对黑人的歧视可能导致临床治疗上的疏忽”,文中没有提到对黑人的 歧视,且定位句提及的是临床预测而不是临床治疗,故排除。
单选题 What is Yudell's suggestion to scientists?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】由题干中的Yudell’s suggestion 和scientists定位到文章第六段第二句:Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language.perhaps using terms like“ancestry”or“population”… 事实细节题。定位句指出,亚戴尔说道,科学家们需要更具体的语言,或许可以使用像“血统”或“人群”这样的术语,它们也许能更准确地在个体和群体层面上反 映出人类与其基因之间的关系。故答案为A。 B.“他们应该避免使用政治敏感术语”,定位句指出科学家们可以使用像“血统”或“人群”这样的术语,而不是政治敏感术语,可以排除;C.“在研究中他们 应该摈弃不相关的概念”,第六段第一句提到摈弃种族的概念,但这只是作者的假设,目的是为了引出科学家们在研究中还能使用什么变量的这个问题,这并非亚戴 尔对科学家们的建议,故排除;D.“在研究中他们应该检查所有可能的变量”,原文并未提及检查变量,故排除。
单选题 What can be inferred from Yudell's remark in the last paragraph?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】由题于中的the last paragraph定位到文章最后一段:“…we also acknowledge that using race as a political or social category to study racism,although filled with lots of challenges,remains necessary given our need to understand how structural inequities and discrimination produce health disparities(差异)between groups,”Yudeli said. 推理判断题。定位句指出,亚戴尔说道:“……我们也承认,考虑到我们需要了解结构性的不平等和歧视是如何使群体之间产生健康差异的,将种族用作研究种族主 义的政治或社会范畴仍有必要,尽管这充满了挑战。”由此可知,在研究种族歧视的这些领域里,种族术语仍有用,故答案为D.。 A.“坚持种族主义使不公和歧视更加持久”,原文只指出将种族用作研究种族主义的政治或社会范畴仍有必要,而不是坚持种族主义,故排除A.;B.“种族之 间的生理学差异非常惊人”,第三段最后一句提到在一项研究中,两位欧裔美国科学家共有的基因序列变异少于他们每个人与韩国科学家共有的基因序列变异,这说 明遗传差异不会按照种族界限固定下来,因此B.与原文表述相反,故排除; C.“消除种族歧视具有挑战性”,定位段指出充满挑战的是将种族用作研究种族主义的政治或社会范畴,而不是消除种族歧视,故该选项是对原文的曲解,故排除。