1、The amount of data that can be stored has grown at a similar rate.Yet as （3）_ get smaller, making them gets harder and more expensive.On May 10th Paul Otellini, the boss of Intel, a big American chipmaker, put the price of a new chip factory at around $10 billion.Happily for those that lack Intels r
2、esources, there may be a cheaper optionnamely to mimic Mother Nature,who has been building tiny （4）_, in the form of living cells and their components, for billions of years, and has thus got rather good at it.A paper published in Small, a nanotechnology journal , sets out the latest example of the
3、（5）_.In it, a group of researchers led by Sarah Staniland at the University of Leeds, in Britain, describe using naturally occurring proteins to make arrays of tiny magnets,similar to those employed to store information in disk drives.The researchers took their （6）_ from Magnetospirillum magneticum,
4、 a bacterium that is sensitive to the Earths magnetic field thanks to the presence within its cells of flecks of magnetite, a form of iron oxide.Previous work has isolated the protein that makes these miniature compasses. Using genetic engineering, the team managed to persuade a different bacteriumE
5、scherichia coli, a ubiquitous critter that is a workhorse of biotechnologyto （7）_ this protein in bulk.Next, they imprinted a block of gold with a microscopic chessboard pattern of chemicals.Half the squares contained anchoring points for the protein.The other half were left untreated as controls.Th
6、ey then dipped the gold into a solution containing the protein, allowing it to bind to the treated squares, and dunked the whole lot into a heated （8）_ of iron salts.After that, they examined the results with an electron microscope.Sure enough, groups of magnetite grains had materialised on the trea
7、ted squares, shepherded into place by the bacterial protein.In principle, each of these magnetic domains could store the one or the zero of a bit of information, according to how it was polarised.Getting from there to a real computer memory would be a long road.For a start, the grains of magnetite a
8、re not strong enough magnets to make a useful memory, and the size of each domain is huge by modern computing （9）_.But Dr Staniland reckons that, with enough tweaking, both of these objections could be dealt with.The （10）_ of this approach is that it might not be so capital-intensive as building a f
9、ab.Growing things does not need as much kit as making them.If the tweaking could be done, therefore, the result might give the word biotechnology a whole new meaning.A） componentsB） advantageC） standardsD） complimentsE） essenceF） inspirationG） disadvantageH） doublesI） solutionJ） resolutionK） devices
10、L） manufactureM） spiritN） productO） technique答案：1.E）essence2.H）doubles3.A）components4.K）devices5.O）technique6.F）inspiration7.L）manufacture8.I）solution9.C）standards10.B）advantage 全文翻译A novel way of making computer memories, using bacteria制造计算机存储器的新奇方法：使用细菌FOR half a century, the essence of progress i
11、n the computer industry has been to do more with less.半个世纪以来，计算机产业发展的本质就是花钱更少，成事更多。Moores law famously observes that the number of transistors which can be crammed into a given space doubles every 18 months.摩尔定律的著名论断是：能够放入某空间内的晶体管数量每18个月翻一番。储存的数据也有着类似的增长速率，Yet as components get smaller, making them
12、gets harder and more expensive.但是随着部件越来越小，它们的制造难度和成本也逐渐增加。5月10日，美国芯片巨头因特尔总裁兼CEOPaul Otellini宣布将花费上百亿美元建设新工厂。Happily for those that lack Intels resources, there may be a cheaper optionnamely to mimic Mother Nature,对于不像因特尔那么有钱的厂家的好消息是，他们或许可以选择更便宜的方式模拟大自然。who has been building tiny devices, in the form of living cells and their components, for billions of years, and has thus got rathe
