The heat in summer is no less______here in this mountain region.

A comet is distinguished from other bodies in the solar system ______.

The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that it is trying to track down as many as 386 piglets that may have been genetically engineered and wrongfully sold into the U. S. food supply. The focus of the FDA investigation is pigs raised by researchers at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign. They engineered the animals with two genes: One is a cow gene that increases milk production in the sow. The other, a synthetic gene, makes the milk easier for piglets to digest. The goal was to raise bigger pigs faster. There has been no evidence that either genetically altered plants or animals actually trigger human illness, but critics warn that potential side effects remain unknown. University officials say their tests showed the piglets were not born with the altered genes, but FDA rules require even the offspring of genetically engineered animals to be destroyed so they don' t get into the food supply. The FDA, in a quickly arranged news conference Wednesday prompted by inquiries by USA TODAY, said the University of Illinois will face possible sanctions and fines for selling the piglets to a livestock broker, who in turn sells to processing plants. Both the FDA and the university say the pigs that entered the market do not pose a risk to consumers. But the investigation follows action by the U. S. Department of Agriculture in December to fine a Texas company that contaminated 500, 000 bushels of soybeans with com that had been genetically altered to produce a vaccine for pigs. Critics see such cases as evidence of the need for more government oversight of a burgeoning area of scientific research. "This is a small incident, but it's incident like this that could destroy consumer confidence and export confidence," says Stephanie Childs of the Grocery Manufacturers of America. "We already have Europe shaky on biotech. The countries to whom we export are going to look at this." The University of Illinois says it tested the DNA of every piglet eight times to make sure that the animal hadn't inherited the genetic engineering of its mother. Those piglets that did were put back into the study. Those that didn't were sold to the pig broker. "Any pig who' s tested negative for the genes since 1999 has been sent off to market," says Charles Zukoski, vice chancellor for research. But FDA deputy commissioner Lester Crawford says that under the terms of the university's agreement with the FDA, the researchers were forbidden to remove the piglets without FDA approval. "The University of Illinois failed to check with FDA to see whether or not the animals could be sold on the open market. And they were not to be used under any circumstance for food." The FDA is responsible for regulating and overseeing transgenic animals because such genetic manipulation is considered an unapproved animal drug. The 386 piglets wrongfully sold into food supply are from ______.

The child was so ingenuous that even when she knocked the television off its stand so that it was irreparably damaged, her parents thought her to be charming.

His really helps reduce the paper clutter from ______ up especially if shredder closes to where you process the mail.

The Chinese world diving champion was ______ from the national team, which news has been front-page report in the country for several days.

The original elections were declared ______ by the former military ruler.

The ethnic group known as Ashkenazim is blessed with more than its fair share of talented minds, but is also prone to a number of serious genetic diseases. Researchers now suggest that intelligence is closely linked to several illnesses in Ashkenazim Jews, and that the diseases are the result of natural selection. The Ashkenazim are descended from Jewish communities in Germany, Austria, Poland, and Eastern Europe that date back to the 10th century. Today they make up approximately 80 percent of the world's Jewish population. Ashkenazim have the highest average IQ of any ethnic group, scoring 12 to 15 points above the European average. They are also strongly represented in fields and occupations requiring high cognitive ability. For instance, Jews of European ancestry account for 27 percent of U. S. Nobel science prize winners. But the group is also associated with several neurological disorders, including Tay-Sachs, Gaucher's, and Niemann-Pick. Tay-Sachs is a fatal hereditary disease of the central nervous system. Sufferers lack an enzyme needed to break down fatty substances in the brain and nerve cells. Gauchers and Niemann-Pick are similar, often fatal diseases. Because Jews were discriminated against in medieval Europe, they were often driven into professions such as money lending and banking which were looked down upon or forbidden for Christians. Historians suggest that Jews with lucrative jobs often had four, six, or sometimes even eight or nine children. Poorer families, meanwhile, tended to be smaller, possibly because they lived in over hundreds areas in which children were more prone to disease. As a result, the researchers say, over hundreds of years the Jewish population of Europe became more intelligent than their gentile countrymen. But increased intelligence may have come at a cost, with genetic diseases such as Tay-Sachs. Being side effects of genes that facilitate intelligence, researchers argue that highly unlikely that mutated genes responsible for these illnesses could have reached such high levels in Ashkenazim if they were not connected to cognitive performance. While the link is difficult to prove, there is some evidence that Gaucher disease does increase a person's IQ. Around one in three people of working age who were patients of the Gaucher Clinic at the Shaare Zedek Medical Centre in Jerusalem had professions requiring an average IQ of more than 120. This group included scientists, academics, physicians, and accountants. Modern-day Ashkenazim are now far more likely to marry outside their ethnic group. A researcher says that he would expect a tendency for both higher IQs and associated genetic disorders to become less marked over time. According to the first paragraph, Ashkenazim are ______.

The crippled boy proudly walked with a ______ to the platform to join the actors.

With great efforts of the peace-loving people all over the world, Iraq ______ the war.

Before the construction of the road, it was prohibitively expensive to transport any furs or fruits across the mountains.

The project area owns all project artifacts and all relationships between these artifacts, that ______ the resources of the project.

Louis Brailele designed a form of communication enabling people to ______ and preserve their thoughts by incorporating a series of dots which were read by the finger tips.

The president explained that the purpose of taxation was to______government spending.

Questions 4 to 7 are based on the passage you have just heard.

The city has decided to do away with all the old buildings in its center.

There is probably no sphere of human activity in which our values and lifestyles are reflected more vividly than they are in the clothes that we choose to wear. The dress of an individual is a kind of "sign language" that 1 a complex set of information and is usually the 2 on which immediate impressions are formed traditionally. A concern for clothes was considered a feminine preoccupation, while men took pride 3 the fact that they were completely lacking in clothes consciousness. This type of American culture is gradually changing as man's dress takes on greater variety and color. Even 4 1995, a research in Michigan revealed that men attached high importance to the value of clothing in daily life. White collar workers in particular viewed dress as a 5 capable of manipulation, that could be used to impress or influence others, especially in the work situation. The white-collar worker was described as 6 concerned about the impression his clothing made on his superiors. Although blue-collar workers were less 7 that they might be judged on the basis of their clothing, they recognized that any difference for the 8 pattern of dress would draw ridicule from fellow workers. Since that time, of course, the 9 have changed: the typical office worker may now be 10 blue shirt, and the laborer a white shirt; but the importance of dress has not diminished.

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Advertising is distinguished from other forms of communication ______ the advertiser pays for the message to be delivered.

The first two stages in the development of civilized man were probably the invention of primitive we