文档介绍：2005全国专业技术人员职称英语考试辅导(11)
第十一讲:阅读理解练习
第三篇
The Gene Industry
panies are already in pursuit mercial applications of the new biology .They dream of placing nxymse(酶)in the automobile to monitor exhaust nad send data om pollution to a microprocessor that will then adjust the engine .they speak of what the New York Time calls"metal-hungry microbse(微生物)that might be used to mine valuable trace metals from ocean water".They have already demanded and won the right to patent new liteforms .
Nervous critics,including many scientists,worry that there if corporate,national,international,and inter-scientific rivalry in the entire biotechnological create images not of oil spills(溢出),but of "microbe spills" that could spread disease and destroy entire populations,The creation and accidental release of extremely poisonous microbes,however,if only one cause for pletely rational and respectable scientists are talking about possibilities that stagger the imagination.
Should we breed people with cow-like stomachs so they can digest grass and hay ,thereby relieving the food problem by modifying us to eat lower down on the fod chain? should we biologically al