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第 21 至 30 題為題組For the layman outside the medical circle, HeLa cells could be as obscure as mostmedical terms, but they still played a part as they did decades ago for researchers21 to achieve something in the lab. 22 , HeLa cells helped with chemotherapy,cloning, gene mapping, and in vitro fertilization, to name but a few of the notableadvances and major 23 in medicine. We would be awed at the jaw-droppingnumber 24 all HeLa cells ever grown be measured for their weight and length:they’d weigh more than 50 billion kilograms and 25 more than 350 million feet,wrapping around the earth at least three times!HeLa cell is the oldest immortal human cell 26 the cervical cancer cells ofan African–American woman, Henrietta Lacks, who eventually expired at the age of31, leaving her five children motherless. However, it was not 27 magazinearticles came out without their knowledge about her story and the 28 cell, thefirst ever in history, that her family learned that Henrietta’s cells were still alive andhad been sold for twenty-five dollars a vial. The 29 feeling of being takenunfair advantage of by science and the press was shared by the writer Rebecca Skloot,who, gravitating to the unsung heroine, determined to embark on a biography of thewoman, bringing to light her life story and 30 lies behind the world-renownedcode name, HeLa.
21.
(A) ascending
(B) aspiring
(C) legislating
(D) promoting

參考答案

答案：B
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(1),E(0)

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