Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

92 practice makes perfect Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

16. State two reasons why civil liberties organizations object to mandatory DNA testing.


17. State ive ways in which DNA testing can be useful outside of police work.

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EXERCISE

Reading for interpretation and inference, part 1 For each of the following

statements from the reading text, choose the answer that more closely indicates the

amount of support it provides for the use of DNA evidence.

1. “DNA, which is present in every human cell even though invisible to the naked eye, is nearly
   impossible to remove completely, particularly in cases involving violent, unpremeditated
   crimes.”
   a. Strong support
   b. Weak or no support


2. “The resulting [RFLP] image resembled a bar code, and the genetic sequence was unique
   to an individual, the only exception being identical twins.”
   a. Strong support
   b. Weak or no support


3. “DNA evidence, however, was making it diicult for lawyers to defend their clients and for
   the courts to guarantee a fair trial to anyone implicated in a crime on the basis of DNA
   ingerprinting.”
   a. Strong support
   b. Weak or no support


4. “A Frye hearing determined that Lifecodes had done a sloppy job of obtaining the evidence
   and had misinterpreted the results.”
   a. Strong support
   b. Weak or no support


5. “In addition to computerized databases, DNA ingerprinting technology reduced the
   probability that someone other than the suspect had the same ingerprint from 1 in 1,000
   to 1 in 26 billion.”
   a. Strong support
   b. Weak or no support