Our brains could be hard-wired to be male

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Our brains could be hard-wired to be male or female long before we begin to grow testes(丸)or ovaries(卵巢)in the womb. This discovery might explain why some people feel trapped in a body that’s the wrong sex, and could also lead to tests that reveal the true "brain sex" of babies born with ambiguous genitalia(生殖器).
Till now, the orthodoxy among developmental biologists has been that embryos develop ovaries and become female unless a gene called SRY on the Y chromosome is switched on. If this gene is active, it makes testes develop instead. This switch is seen as the key event in determining whether a baby is a girl or a boy. Only after the gonads(性腺) form and flood the body with the appropriate hormones, the theory goes, is the sex of our minds and bodies determined.
But in a study of mice, a team at the University of California, Los Angeles, has now found that males and females show differences in the expression of no fewer than 50 genes well before SRY switches on. "It’s the first discovery of genes differentially expressed in the brain, "says Eric Vilain, who led the UCLA team. "They may have an impact on the hard-wired development of the brain in terms of sexual differentiation independent of gonadal induction."
Vilain is presenting details of seven of the 50 genes to the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Baltimore this week. Three of these genes are dominant in females and four are dominant in males. The next step for Vilain and his team will be to show that the genes in question really do influence brain sexuality—and not just in mice. This is likely to be a much tougher proposition than merely showing there are differences in expression.
But if the findings are confirmed, they could one day yield blood tests that allow doctors to establish the brain sex of babies born with genitalia that share features of both sexes. At present doctors and parents have to guess which gender to assign for surgical "correction".

What has been found by the study at UCLA

A.We human beings have fewer than fifty genes.

B.Males and females have similar expression genes.

C.Differences in the expression of genes appear before SRY switches on.

D.Sexual differentiation depends mainly on gonadal induction.

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因纳税人计算错误等失误,未缴或少缴税款的,税务机关在3年内可以追征税款、滞纳金;有特殊情况的,追征期可以延长到()年。

A.1

B.2

C.3

D.5

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生命的价值 

        有一个生长在孤儿院中的男孩,常常悲观地问院长:“像我这样没人要的孩子, 活着究竟有什么意思呢?”

        院长总笑而不答。     

       有一天,院长交给男孩一块石头说:“明天早上,你拿这块石头到市场去卖,但不是‘真卖’,记住,不论别人出多少钱,绝对不能卖。”     

        第二天,男孩蹲在市场角落,意外地有好多人要买,而且价钱愈出愈高。回到院内,男孩兴奋地向院长报告,院长笑笑,要他明天拿到黄金市场叫卖。在黄金市场,竟有人出比昨天高十倍的价钱要买那块石头。      

       最后,院长叫男孩把石头拿到宝石市场上去展示。结果石头的身价较昨天又涨了十倍,更由于男孩怎么都不卖,被传扬成“稀世珍宝”。     

       男孩兴冲冲地捧着这块石头回到孤儿院,将这一切报告院长。院长望着男孩, 徐徐说道:“生命的价值就像这块石头,在不同的环境下就会有不同的意义。一块不起眼的石头,由于你的珍惜、惜售而提升了它的价值,被说成是稀世珍宝。你不就像这块石头一样?只要自己看重自己,自我珍惜,生命就有意义,有价值。”

1.解释“稀世珍宝”,并说说为什么叫那块石头稀世珍宝。

     稀世珍宝:                                                                                                    

2.第二自然段中“总”字与上文哪个词相照应?这两个词说明了什么?  

                                                                                                                                            

3.“院长叫男孩把石头拿到宝石市场上去展示”,为什么不说“卖”而是说“展示”?

                                                                                                                                            

4.第五自然段中划线字“竟”能否去掉?为什么?

                                                                                                                                            

5.你从故事中得到什么启示?

                                                                                                                                             

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A.振冲置换法

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C.深层搅拌法

D.降水预压法

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