Cloning, chemotherapy, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, polio vaccine—most of us are familiar with these medical terms, even some of us have benefited from these __17__ medical advances. But __18__, there are few people knowing the name of Henrietta Lacks.   Thanks to the woman’s cells, they __19__ many scientific achievements. In laboratories, the woman’s cells are usually __20__ “HeLa”. If we piled all HeLa cells ever __21__ onto a scale, they would weigh more than 50 million kilograms. Henrietta’s cells are collected before she __22__ by a surgeon without her or her family’s previous knowledge. As a consequence, the researches of Henrietta’s cells are kept secret from her family for nearly half a decade. Upon knowing this, her family suffered from a feeling of __23__ advantage of by the science and the press that published articles about the cells without informing them in advance.    Rebecca Skloot, the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, writes in a __24__ view for both Henrietta and her family. __25__ Skloot attempts to do is try to raise concern of the rights for patients of knowing, the issue of medical ethics overlooked, and the more important is to record Henrietta Lacks’s contribution to the world.
【題組】17.
(A) notable
(B) inevitable
(C) infinite
(D) innumerable