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《经济学家》读译参考 考研英语阅读题源之经济学人精选文章 TEXT 12 Feb 23rd 2006 From The Economist print edition THE recent stem-cell scandal in South Korea may have made frontnews across the world, but （1）few readers are likely to bet that a literary novel set in a laboratory and based on scientific research might end up being a ★turner[1]. Readers of “Intuition ”, however, will battle with themselves over whether to savour Allegra Goodmans exquisite ★filleting[2] of character, as the scientists are themselves dissected like their experimental mice, or to rush ★headlong[3] to find out what h________① next. In an under-funded Harvard laboratory, the ★dogged[4], unglamorous ★slog[5] towards finding a cure for cancer is u_______② way. Suddenly one research assistants experiment ★bears [6]fruit. After mice infected with human breast-cancer cells are injected with Cliffs R-7 virus, their tumours melt away in 60% of the population. But are Cliffs results too good to be true? （2 ）The question of whether the R-7 results were ★ fiddled[7] powers the remainder of the book. Ms Goodman follows the good novelists ★credo[8] that plot ★proceeds from[9] character; and （3 ）she follows the good scientists credo that objective truth is inexorably ★coloured[10] by whoever ★ stands[11] to lose or gain by it. All the researchers in “Intuition ” are sympathetic, and they are all ★screwed up[12]. Sandy, co-director of the lab, is a ★charismatic[13] dynamo[14], but too enamoured with worldly glory. His brilliant, shy partner Marion has ★impeccable[15] research standards, but is undermined by chronic self-doubt. By contrast, Cliff is ★glibly[16] over-c_________③. Robin, R-7s ★whistle-blower[17] (also Cliffs former girlfriend), is a natural scientist, but h