April 11-17, 2005

X chromosome shows why women are different
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1. How is the Y chromosome different from the X chromosome
A. The Y chromosome is bigger.
B. The Y chromosome has fewer genes.
C. The Y chromosome can exist by itself.
D. Only the Y chromosome can change itself.

2. How are the X and the Y chromosome related?
A. Both make people sick.
B. A Y chromosome can replace a missing X chromosome.
C. The X chromosome is a Y chromosome with an extra growth.
D. The Y chromosome is an X chromosome where some part is worn off.

3. What chromosomes do men have?
A. Y + Y
B. Y + X
C. X + X
D. V + Y

4. What is the connection between the X chromosome and many diseases?
A. Many diseases cannot attack X chromosomes.
B. The X chromosome works like medicine against many diseases.
C. Many diseases happen because something is wrong with the X chromosome.
D. The X chromosome carries genetic information of diseases that make people sick.

5. Why do men get some disease more easily than women?
A. Men work harder.
B. Men's chromosomes are more complex than women's.
C. Women's chromosomes make them take more care of themselves.
D. Women's second X chromosome can make up for defects in the first one.


Synonyms: Which of the following words or phrases replace the ones from the passage best?
6. link
A. responsible
B. connect
C. free
D. ill

7. diagnosis
  A. treatment
B. operation
C. analysis
D. cure

8. far more
A. distant
B. unlikely
C. away from
D. much more

9. largely
A. only
B. mainly
C. increasingly
D. permanently

10. fault
A. defect
B. erosion
C. eruption
D. pressure

 

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