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It is reported that DNA tests put death penalty under fire. The issue of wrongfu

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问题 It is reported that DNA tests put death penalty under fire. The issue of wrongful convictions does not【S1】just to cases that pre-date DNA testing. A growing scandal in Texas【S2】as a reminder that genetic tests can be reliable if only those who are carrying them out are reliable. On 4 January, a report was published on the Houston Police Department’s【S3】laboratory. The DNA unit of the Texas lab was closed in 2002, after a series of【S4】by local television news station KHOU. Now, an independent investigation, which has looked at 1,100 cases so far,【S5】the lab with problems including contamination of samples, misrepresentation of【S6】in court and failure to use controls. In two cases, one of which put a man on death row, a clear absence of the【S7】’s genetic markers in a sample was called "inconclusive" and not reported.
Investigators【S8】lack of funding and incompetent management, among other factors. "The complete lack of outside scrutiny(详细的检查)of the crime lab’s operations, procedures, and reporting of results allowed serious deficiencies.., to become so egregious(惊人)that analysts in the lab simply had now【S9】on how bad their practices were," the report reads. DNA analyzed at the lab is being【S10】, and at least one person has been freed.
A)serves                                   I)accuses
B)retested                                 J)blamed
C)numbers                                  K)considers
D)exposes                                  L)perspective
E)statistics                               M)relate
F)crime                                    N)apply
G)charges                                  O)interviews
H)suspect
选项
答案 B
解析 此处应选择一个动词原形与后面的to构成固定词组，选项中有两个动词原形，M)relate和N)apply，根据上下文的内容可判断apply正确，apply to译为“适用于，针对”。答案为N)apply。本句意为“误判问题并非只存在于运用DNA测试之前的案例。”
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