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Unit 3 Science and nature
Period One Welcome to the unit & Reading(Ⅰ)
基础落实
Ⅰ.课文理解
1.When and where was the world’s first mammal Dolly cloned?
A.On Christmas Day 2001 in Japan.
B.In 1996 in Scotland.
C.In early 2003 in Scotland.
D.In 1996 in Italy.
2.Which of the following CANNOT be inferred from the text?
A.Faye Wilson cannot give birth to a baby.
B.Cloning human beings is illegal and immoral in many countries.
C.In the future more and more diseases like cancer will be cured.
D.The first cloned human being will be created by Severino Antinori.
3.Pauline Carter disagrees with human cloning,because she thinks that________.
A.human cloning is totally immoral
B.it is difficult to predict the future if human beings are cloned
C.human beings will use up the Earth’s resources
D.all of the above
4.Who else disagrees with human cloning except Pauline Carter?
A.Colin Jake.
B.Severino Antinori.
C.Ian Wilmut.
D.Faye Wilson.
5.What is the main idea of this passage?
A.It is about the debate whether we should clone human beings among people.
B.Cloning is producing an exact copy of a plant or an animal using its cells.
C.Ian Wilmut is shocked that some scientists are now considering cloning human beings.
D.Opposite opinions of Pauline Carter and Colin Jake on the “The perfect copy”.
Ⅱ.根据课文内容填空
Para.
One
Different opinions on the first 1.________ embryo cloning
For:Human embryo cloning can produce valuable human
2.________ and organs that could be used to 3.________ human lives.
Against:We may be on our way to producing a reallife
Frankenstein’s monster.
Para.
Two
Different opinions on the birth of 4.________
For:People 5.________ scientists for the scientific advance.
Against:Cloning would lead to more 6.________.
Paras.Three
~Five
Ian Wilmut’s intention
Severino Antinori’s intention
Research efforts should 7.________ on creating new tissues and organs that can be used to cure diseases like cancer.Cloning human embryos with the intention of destroying them