目录 Unit 1 Fran ken food and Health Text A Will Fran ken food Feed the World? Text B Health Risks and Benefits ——Genetically Modified Food Controversies Translation词的译法 Unit 2 Environmental Protection Text A Can for a Climate Culture Shift Text B Seeds of Edible City Architecture Translation词语的增减 Cyberspace Unit 3 Text A Wh0 Knows? Text B Computer and Cyberspace Addiction Translation否定方式的译法 Unit 4 Science and Literature Text A Textual Selection Text B Relationship between Science and Literature Translation被动语态的译法 虚拟语气句的译法 Unit 5 Stem Cells Text A Stem Cells Ready for Prime Time Text B Speech on the U.S.Stem Cell Research Policy Translation名词从句的译法 Unit 6 Universe Exploration Text A Planet Expansion Text B Space Discovery Translation定语从句的译法 Unit 7 E-Technology Text A The Textbook of the Future Text B The Textbook of the Future Translation状语从句的译法 Unit 8 Music and Science Text A Music and the Brain Text B Music,the Food ofNeuroscience7 Translation长难句的译法 Unit 9 Abstract Writing Unit 10 Note-writing Unit 11 E-mail Message Unit 12 Memo Unit 13 Resume Unit 14 Job Application Letters Unit 15 Personal Statement Unit 16 Writing for Graphs and Charts Keys to Exercises 阅读部分答案 翻译写作部分答案
内容摘要 The U.N. estimates that nearly 800 million people around the world are undernourished. The effects are devastating. About 400 million women of childbearing age are iron deficient, which means their babies are exposed to various birth defects. As many as 100 million children suffer from vitamin A deficiency, a leading cause of blindness. Tens of millions of people suffer from other major ailments and nutritional deficiencies caused by lack of food. How can biotech help? Biotechnologists have developed genetically modified rice that is fortified with beta-carotene which the body converts into vitamin A and additional iron, and they are working on other kinds of nutritionally improved crops. Biotech can also improve farming productivity in places where food shortages are caused by crop damage attributable to pests, drought, poor soil and crop viruses, bacteria or fungi. Damage caused by pests is incredible. The European corn borer, for example, destroys 40 million tons of the worlds corn crop annually, about 7% of the total. Incorporating pest-resistant genes into seeds can help restore the balance. In trials of pest-resistant cotton in Africa, yields have increased significantly. So far, fears that genetically modified, pest-resistant crops might kill good insects as well as bad appear unfounded. Viruses often cause massive failure in staple crops in developing countries. Two years ago, Africa lost more than half its cassava crop a key source of calories to the mosaic virus. Genetically modified, virus-resistant crops can reduce that damage, as can drought-tolerant seeds in regions where water shortages limit the amount of land under cultivation. Biotech can also help solve the problem of soil that contains excess aluminum, which can damage roots and cause many staple-crop failures. A gene that helps neutralize aluminum toxicity in rice has been identified.
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