B
Most people agree that being a good driver means being safe and not aggressive on the road. One debate some people still argue, however, is who drives better: men or women? Although it’s impossible to say that one gender drives better than another definitively, there are some noteworthy trends. Male drivers tend to have more accidents
Data from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) shows that male drivers tend to have more total accidents than females. The IIHS, an independent non-profit devoted to reducing car accidents, also found that 71 percent of all motor vehicle crash deaths in 2020 were males. Although the gap has narrowed, almost every year from 1975 to 2020, the number of male crash deaths was more than twice the number of female crash deaths, per the IIHS.
Women might be less-confident behind the wheel
Although male drivers have more accidents, other research shows women aren’t “perfect” drivers, either. Researchers from the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute studied traffic accidents over 20 years and found that female drivers are more likely to run into a car driven by another woman than a man. The study, however, doesn’t explain possible reasons for this pattern.
One that they might consider testing in the future is that some research also shows women are less-confident behind the wheel than men. A study from UCLA exploring the relationship between new drivers’ skills and different variables, including gender（性别）, shows female students were less confident drivers than men.
So are men better drivers than women?
Gender is just one factor when it comes to safe driving, along with others
such as age, and even the time of day people drive. One study shows that both genders have a greater accident risk when driving at night, but males still have a higher risk at all times of the day. Driving quality also changes based on location, too, as some states are more dangerous than others. Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that Wyoming, Mississippi, and Montana have high accident death rates, without regards to gender. It goes to show that everyone should learn and practice safe driving habits instead of worrying about who drives better.
24. According to the data from the IIHS, what is the percentage of males among car accident victims before 2020? A. Bigger than 71% Not clear.
25. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. In recent years, the number of car accidents caused by males is twice as much as that that by females.
B. Researchers have found out why there's higher possibility for women drivers to run into each other.
C. While driving in the daytime, male drivers have a greater accident risk than female drivers.
D. Many studies have shown that females are better and safer drivers than males.
26. What does the underlined word \in Paragraph 4 possibly mean? A. factors
B. varieties
C. phenomena
D.
B. Smaller than 71%
C. Exactly 71%
D.
consequences
27. From which column of a newspaper is the passage probably taken? A. Science Traffic
B. News
C. Culture
D.
C
Six months after a Chinese scientist was widely condemned for helping to make the world's first gene-edited babies, he remains out of public view, and new information suggests that others may be interested in undertaking the same kind of work outside the United States.
A clinic in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai emailed scientist He Jiankui to seek training in gene editing, Stanford University bioethicist Dr. William Hurlbut said ahead of a speech Tuesday at the World Science Festival in New York.
Hurlbut, whose advice He often sought, said He told him that scientists from multiple countries and families with inherited health problems had messaged support and interest in altering the genes of embryos（胚胎）to prevent or treat disease. Hurlbut gave The Associated Press the email the Dubai clinic sent to He in December but decided to hide the clinic's name. \the need \Jennifer Doudna, a University of California, Berkeley, co-inventor of the CRISPR gene-editing tool that He used, said that she also has heard of others who want to edit embryos.
\was also a speaker at the New York festival, said the field needs to focus on setting specific principles for how and when such work should proceed. \technology is frankly just not ready for clinical use in human embryos,\although research should continue, she said. Doudna is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which also supports AP's Health and Science Department.
Scientists and policy leaders have been debating how to set international
standards or controls since He claimed in November that he had altered the genes of twin girls at conception（怀孕）to try to help them resist possible future infection with the AIDS virus.
Editing embryos is outlawed in many countries because it risks damaging other genes, and the DNA changes can be passed to future generations. Many scientists have condemned He's work, and attention has fallen on other scientists who knew or strongly suspected what He was doing.
28. What is the email the Dubai clinic sent to He Jiankui probably about? A. Expectation of gene editing training. problems.
C. Eagerness to use the technology. in need.
29. Why does Doudna think that there is need to put governance on gene-editing?
A. Because there is decreasing eagerness to use the technology of altering the genes of embryos.
B. Because the clinic use of the technology in human embryos is still in inadequate preparation.
C. Because the evidence showing people's need of the technology is just completely unbelievable.
D. Because some scientists or doctors may use the technology with the aim of making profits.
30. What can we infer from the passage?
A. He Jiankui used to held consultations with Hurlbut on gene editing. B. It's still illegal to edit the genes of embryos in many countries. C. How to set international standards or controls over gene-editing is still in heated debate.
D. Practical governance
B.
Inherited
health
D. Doudna assisted He Jiankui by providing a tool to alter the genes of twin girls at conception.
31. Which of the following can be the best title of this passage? A. He Opens a New Age in Genetics
B. The First Gene-edited Babies in the World C. A New Method of Preventing diseases D. Gene-edited Babies Debate Continues D
The McDonnells lived in a small brick house in Larchmont, a suburb of New York City. Jim was foreman of mail carriers at the post office where he had worked for 25 years. Married in 1960, he and Anne were childless. On the evening of the eleventh anniversary of their marriage, carrying out the garbage, Jim McDonnell slipped on ice-coated steps, and struck his head. A few days later, driving to work, he lost control of the car, hit a telephone pole, and banged his forehead against the windshield. The following day he fell off the stairs, and again he banged his head. Found unconscious, he was hospitalized for three days with a cerebral concussion（脑震荡）. One day in the same month, Jim borrowed a friend’s station wagon and drove to Kennedy Airport to pick up Anne’s brother and family. When he returned the borrowed car at 10 p.m., he was unaware that the wallet containing his identification had slipped out of his pocket onto the floor of the station wagon. After that, he was never seen again.
So what really happened to Anne’s husband? During his walk home, Jim had indeed blacked out（昏厥）, losing all ability to remember who he was and where he lived. What happened then is unclear. The next thing he knew was that he was in downtown Philadelphia, a city he had never visited before. Seeing signs advertising the services of a James Peters, a real estate broker,
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