2009考研英语阅读理解PartAText2Text2.PDFVIP

新东方《考研英语历年真题详解及复习指南》 2009 考研英语阅读理解 Part A Text 2 Text 2 ①It is a wise father that knows his own child, but today a man can boost his paternal （fatherly ） wisdom—or at least confirm that he’s the kid’s dad. ②All he needs to do is shell out $30 for a paternity testing kit （PTK ）at his local drugstore—and another $120 to get the results. ①More than 60,000 people have purchased the PTKs since they first became available without prescriptions last year, according to Doug Fogg, chief operating officer of Identigene, which makes the over-the-counter kits. ②More than two dozen companies sell DNA tests directly to the public, ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to more than $2,500. ①Among the most popular: paternity and kinship testing, which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and families can use to track down kids put up for adoption. ②DNA testing is also the latest rage among passionate genealogists—and supports businesses that offer to search for a family’s geographic roots. ①Most tests require collecting cells by swabbing saliva in the mouth and sending it to the company for testing. ②All tests require a potential candidate with whom to compare DNA. ①But some observers are skeptical. ②“There’s a kind of false precision being hawked by people claiming they are doing ancestry testing,” says Troy Duster, a New York University sociologist. ③He notes that each individual has many ancestors—numbering in the hundreds just a few centuries back. ④Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father’s line or mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down only from mothers. ⑤This DNA can