In the EU and a number of other places such hormone treatment is banned. But even in the US，milk and meat is often labelled as rBST hormone free.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)is not requiring labelling for meat from cloned animals or offspring of clones because its position is that there is no scientific difference between that and non­cloned meat. It has said it will permit voluntary labelling.

And despite the scientific evidence it gave，there are still plenty of critics against its position on cloned meat. After the 2008 guidance was published，Senator Barbara Mikulski said，"The FDA has acted recklessly and I am very disappointed in their rush to allow cloned foods. Just because something created in a lab doesn't mean we should have to eat it. If we discover a problem with cloned food after it is in our food supply and it's not labelled，the FDA won't be able to recall it. "

24．What's the aim of the International Food Information Council's study?

A．To prove cloned foods are safe.

B．To persuade people to eat cloned foods.

C．To find the possible bad effects of cloned foods.

D．To know people's attitudes towards cloned foods.

答案　D　[细节理解题。由第一、二段可知，International Food Information Council 进行这一调查和研究的目的是了解人们对克隆食品的态度。]

25．According to Senator Barbara Mikulski，________.

A．cloning animals is illegal

B．cloned foods should be labelled

C．cloned foods should be forbidden

D．cloned foods have health problems

答案　B　[推理判断题。根据 Barbara Mikulski 所说的"如果人们食用了克隆食品出了健康问题的话，如果没有标签这些食物将无法被召回"可推断他认为应该对克隆食品贴上标签，因此判断B项正确。 ]

26．What's the best title for the passage?

A．Why do people in the US not like to accept cloned food?

B．Differences between cloned and non­cloned meat

C．What are the attitudes towards cloned food in the US?