Medicine comes in lots of different packages. Painkillers in a tablet can make your headache go away. Antibiotic cream (抗菌素膏) from a tube can prevent your cuts from becoming infected. But can medicine come packaged in chicken eggs?
A team of scientists from Scotland say “yes”. They’ve engineered special chickens that lay eggs with disease-treating drugs inside. 
These eggs come from chickens that have been engineered to produce certain drugs inside their egg whites.
These drugs are made of molecules called proteins(蛋白質(zhì)). Animals make thousands of proteins — they’re the main element in skin, hair, milk and meat. Since animals can make proteins easily, they’re good candidates (候選者) for making protein drugs.
Researchers have already made cows, sheep and goats produce protein drugs in their milk. But chickens are cheaper to take care of, need less room, and grow faster than these other animals. Those qualities could make chickens a better choice to become living drug factories, says Simon Lillico of the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Lillico and a team of researchers changed chickens’ DNA — the code that tells cells how to make proteins — so that the birds’ cells made two protein drugs. One drug can treat skin cancer, and the other treats a nerve disease called multiple sclerosis (多發(fā)性硬化).
The scientists changed the chickens’ DNA so that the birds made these drugs only in their egg whites. This protects the chickens’ bodies from the drugs’ possible harmful effects and makes it easy for scientists to collect the drugs.
小題1:If you cut your finger, you may use ________ to cure it.
A．painkillers in a tabletB．a(chǎn)ntibiotic cream from a tube
C．chicken eggs D．protein drugs
小題2:Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A．Scientists from Scotland have succeeded in packing medicine into chicken eggs.
B．The drugs are made of molecules called proteins.
C．Scientists chose chickens for their experiments because chicken eggs taste delicious.
D．The animals are good candidates for making protein drugs.
小題3:The drugs in special chicken eggs can ________.
A．treat lung cancer B．help reduce headache
C．change people’s DNA D．treat multiple sclerosis
小題4:We can infer from the passage that ________.
A．eating eggs is the best choice for the patients now
B．scientists changed the chicken’s DNA and put all the drugs in chicken eggs
C．we may eat special eggs as drugs when we are sick in the future
D．the drugs produce harmful effects on the chicken’s bodies
小題5:The best title for the passage is ________.
A．Chicken Eggs to Replace MedicineB．Chicken Eggs as Drug
C．Chicken Eggs and MedicineD．Chicken Eggs and Animal Milk

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:C
小題5:B

試題分析：本文敘述了科學(xué)家可以對(duì)于雞蛋的蛋白進(jìn)行DNA改變而制成一種能治療多發(fā)性硬化和皮膚癌的病，文中給出了為什么選用雞的蛋白，主要因?yàn)殡u很容易喂養(yǎng)，占用空間小，生長(zhǎng)快的特點(diǎn)。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Antibiotic cream (抗菌素膏) from a tube can prevent your cuts from becoming infected. 砍傷用抗抗菌素膏防止發(fā)炎，故選B。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)chickens are cheaper to take care of, need less room, and grow faster than these other animals.并不是因?yàn)殡u肉嘗起來(lái)好吃，故選C。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)The scientists changed the chickens’ DNA so that the birds made these drugs only in their egg whites. 雞蛋的蛋白進(jìn)行了DNA改變能夠制造這種藥治療多發(fā)性硬化，故選D。
小題4:推理判斷題。根據(jù)This protects the chickens’ bodies from the drugs’ possible harmful effects 可能在未來(lái)會(huì)給人們帶來(lái)傷害，故選C。
小題5:標(biāo)題歸納題�？v觀全文可知本文主要敘述了人們吃的蛋白與用它做成的藥，故選B。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：做推理題干擾選項(xiàng)的特點(diǎn)夸大事實(shí)：一是對(duì)于原文中的細(xì)節(jié)或論斷的某方面程度進(jìn)行了夸大處理。二是無(wú)中生有：捏造原文并不存在的信息，并以此作為依據(jù)進(jìn)行推理。三是摻入常識(shí)：根據(jù)考生已有的常識(shí)是正確的，但卻不是基于文章。四是推理過(guò)頭：引申過(guò)度，使結(jié)論過(guò)于絕對(duì)化。知道了這些特點(diǎn)在容易排除干擾項(xiàng)進(jìn)而做出正確的判斷。
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