中央民族大学2005年招收攻读博士学位生入学考试(14)

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[C] The UN has decided to ban human cloning but will not impose it in the following two year.

[D] The UN will not decide whether or not to ban human cloning in the following two years.

54. The word “underscore” in Line 1, Paragraph 7 most probably means

[A] underline. [B]underlie. [C] undermine. [D] understate.

55. Which of the following is an argument of the proponents of human cloning?

[A] Using a laboratory created embryo for research is not destroying a life.

[B]Cloning human embryos may benefit those who have lost their children.

[C] A ban on human cloning failed to get approval by the US Senate.

[D] Human embryos are destroyed daily in many other ways other than cloning. Passage 5

Comcast, a cable-TV company, last week launched a hostile takeover bid for The Walt Disney Company, arguably America’s best-known entertainment company. Comcast is taking advantage of a particularly weak point in Disney’s history. Last month Disney’s most important business partner, Pixar, an animation studio, abandoned it. At the end of last year, two board members, Roy Disney and Stanley Gold, resigned and started a campaign to oust Michael Eisner, Disney’s boss. On the day that Comcast announced its bid, Disney’s executives started an investor conference in Florida, an occasion they had counted on to boost the company and its share price. The share price did indeed jump. But this was thanks to Comcast’s bid, initially worth $66 billion, rather than to any of Disney’s business plans.

At its get-together with investors, the Disney high command behaved as if the Comcast bid had never happened. Indeed, the bidder’s name was barely mentioned, until Mr Eisner joked that “we’re buying Comcast” when asked about possible acquisitions. The Disney boss also argued against the sort of consolidation that media distributors like Comcast have pursued. Perhaps foreshadowing the arguments that Disney’s lobbyists will make in Washington, Mr Eisner said: “Concentration of distribution usually hurts the small guy not the large player”.

Mr Eisner’s dismissal of Comcast’s approach was backed up by Disney’s board, which

formally rejected the hostile bid on Monday February 16th and expressed confidence in Mr Eisner’s leadership. However, the board also said it would “consider any legitimate