Với mong muốn giúp các bạn đạt kết quả cao trong kì thi, đã sưu tầm và chọn lọc gửi đến các bạn IELTS Academic Reading Sample 136 - In search of the holy grail. Mời các bạn cùng tham khảo! | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40 which are based on Reading Passage 136 below. In search of the holy grail It has been called the Holy Grail of modern biology. Costing more than 2 billion it is the most ambitious scientific project since the Apollo programme that landed a man on the moon. And it will take longer to accomplish than the lunar missions for it will not be complete until early next century. Even before it is finished according to those involved this project should open up new understanding of and new treatments for many of the ailments that afflict humanity. As a result of the Human Genome Project there will be new hope of liberation from the shadows of cancer heart disease autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and some psychiatric illnesses. The objective of the Human Genome Project is simple to state but audacious in scope to map and analyse every single gene within the double helix of humanity s DNA 1. The project will reveal a new human anatomy - not the bones muscles and sinews but the complete genetic blueprint for a human being. Those working on the Human Genome Project claim that the new genetic anatomy will transform medicine and reduce human suffering in the twenty-first century. But others see the future through a darker glass and fear that the project may open the door to a World peopled by Frankenstein s monsters and disfigured by a -new eugenics2. The genetic inheritance a baby receives from its parents at the moment of conception fixes much of its later-development determining characteristics as varied as whether it will have blue eyes or suffer from a life- threatening illness such as cystic fibrosis. The human genome is the compendium of all-these inherited genetic instructions. Written out along the double helix of DNA are the chemical letters of the genetic text. It is an extremely long text for the human genome contains more than 3 billion letters. On the printed page it would fill about 7 000 volumes.
