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PAGE 阅读理解之科普知识类 (共3篇，限时24分钟) A (2013·安徽皖南八校联考)How far would you be willing to go to satisfy your need to know? Far enough to find out your possibility of dying from a terrible disease? These days thats more than an academic question, as Tracy Smith reported in our Cover Story. There are now more than a thousand genetic (基因的)tests, for everything from baldness to breast cancer, and the list is growing.Question is, do you really want to know what might eventually kill you? For instance, Nobel Prize winning scientist James Watson, one of the first people to map their entire genetic make-up, is said to have asked not to be told if he were at a higher risk for Alzheimers (老年痴呆症)． “If I tell you that you have an increased risk of getting a terrible disease, that could weigh on your mind and make you anxious, through which you see the rest of your life as you wait for that disease to hit you. It could really mess you up，” said Dr. Robert Green, a Harvard geneticist. “Every ache and pain，” Smith suggested, “could be understood as ‘the beginning of the end.” “Thats right. If you ever worried you were at risk for Alzheimers disease, then every time you cant find your car in the parking lot, you think the disease has started.” Dr. Green has been thinking about this issue for years. He led a study of people who wanted to know if they were at a higher genetic risk for Alzheimers. It was thought that people who got bad news would, for lack of a better medical term, freak_out. But Green and his team found that there was “no significant difference” between how people handled good news and possibly the worst news of their lives. In fact, most people think they can handle it. People who ask for the information usually can handle the information, good or bad, said Green. 语篇解读：科学的发展使人们能够通过基因检测了解到自己将来会死于什么样的疾病，但是这也恰好成为了争议的焦点——人们是否应该享有对自己未来可能得什么病的知情权。 1．Which of the following is TRUE about James Watson? A．He is strongly in favor of the present genetic tests. B．He is more l