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Part I
Pre-Reading Tasks
A Clone of Our Own
Task One The Questions
1, 2, 3, 4
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Part II Text A
Vocabulary to Read
p12. As with the atom bomb P13. But
suppose, instead, that p14. More difficult,
but not P15. Another possibility is P16. The
possibilities are
p1. Only July 5, 1996, P2. No one
broke open p3. When
the time comes to
p4. Dolly is a clone.
p5. Until Dolly entered the p6.
True, it was p7. We live
in a time when p8. We want children who
p9. Cloning brings us
p10. The time is long past
p11. Before the bomb was
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Language Points

words expressions
cultural notes
Language Sense Enhancement
Poetry
Quotations
Movie
Humorous story
Web-links
Comprehension
Content questions
Points for Discussion
Text Organization
Language Focus
1.Vocabulary
Dictation
Gaps Filling
Rewriting
Verb Phrases
Completing
Collocation
Usage
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2. Structure
Sentence Rewriting (1)
Sentence Rewriting (2)
Comprehensive Exercises
Cloze
Translation
Chinese Version of Text A
Part III
Words Phrases to Learn
Comprehension Check
Translation
Language Practice
Part IV
Essay Writing
Model paper
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1. What does Professor Greely think of human
cloning?
2. What does Professor Greely think is the
greatest problem with human reproductive cloning?
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3. According to Professor Greely, are there
situations where human reproductive cloning is
justified?
4. Can you guess what the texts of this unit are
going to be about?
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A Clone of Our Own
Will humans be the next clones? The technology
still has a long way to go before its considered
safe to try on humans. But even if it were safe,
would it be right? Lets hear what Professor Hank
Greely of Stanford University has to say on this
topic.
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Interviewer When we will clone a human? Greely
Thats not a simple question. I think we have to
ask ourselves is there something about the
technology that is so wrong or so evil that it
shouldnt be used at all? Or should it be judged
according to its intended uses?
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Interviewer What are acceptable uses? Greely We
really need to distinguish between different
types of cloning. If we use cloning to grow a new
liver, I dont think many people will have
problems with that as long as its growing a
liver and not taking a liver from a cloned
person. Human reproductive cloning is much
trickier.
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Interviewer Why? Greely Safety. Theres still
a very low success rate. With Dolly, the first
cloned lamb, 29 treated eggs were implanted in
sheep to get one Dolly. We dont worry too much
about sheep miscarriages or about deformed lambs
being born. But we would with humans. And we
wouldnt know if a human clone clone would be
healthy.
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Interviewer Dolly appears to be healthy. Why
wouldnt a human clone be so? Greely There may
be cell changes that are initially invisible and
only show themselves as the clone ages. Theres
also a problem with the ends of chromosomes in
cells, which shorten until the cells can no
longer reproduce. We know that Dollys
chromosomes are shorter than those of other sheep
her age, and we dont know what that means yet.
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Interviewer Suppose human cloning was safe. In
what situations do you see cloning being used?
Greely Helping parents who are having
difficulty having children would be one
area. Interviewer Are there other situations
where it might be acceptable to create a human
clone?
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Greely A situation where parents want to create
a new child to be a bone marrow donor for an
older sick child. Thats a real tough one. But
that issue might never arise if we succeed in
growing bone marrow outside the body. Another
situation is cloning a child who has accidentally
died. I think thats disturbing. But Ive never
been in that position and so I dont feel
comfortable saying whether thats a good
application or a bad application of the
technology.
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Interviewer What about cloning a Hitler or
Michael Jordan? Greely I think we can dismiss
those as bad or evil silly applications. Interview
er Is there anything else youd like to say
about the future of human cloning? Greely Even
if cloning humans were safe and we as a society
had decided it was right and proper for
reproductive purposes, I dont think wed see a
lot of clones. The old-fashioned way of making
babies has a lot going for it Its easy,
traditionally, well understood, and occasionally
even pleasant. People are not going to give up
sex anytime soon.
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Hints for Q1
We must distinguish different types of human
cloning. Some are justified others are not.
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Hints for Q2
safety
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Yes. Helping parents who are having difficulty
having children would be one area. And a
situation where parents want to create a new
child to be a bone marrow donor for an older sick
child. Thats a real tough one.
Hints for Q3
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Cloning offers the possibility of making exact
copies of ourselves. Should this be allowed? What
benefits and dangers may cloning bring?
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A clone is born
Gina Kolata
1 On July 5, 1996, at 500 p.m., the most
famous lamb in history entered the world. She was
born in a shed, just down the road from the
Roslin Institute in Roslin, Scotland, where she
was created.
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And yet her creator, Ian Wilmut, a quiet, balding
fifty-two-year-old embryologist, does not
remember where he was when he heard that the
lamb, named Dolly, was born. He does not even
recall getting a telephone call from John
Bracken, a scientist who had monitored the
pregnancy of the sheep that gave birth to Dolly,
saying that Dolly was alive and healthy and
weighed 6.6 kilograms.
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2 No one broke open champagne. No one took
pictures. Only a few staff members from the
institute and a local veterinarian who attended
the birth were present. Yet Dolly, who looked for
all the world like hundreds of other lambs that
dot the rolling hills of Scotland, was soon to
change the world.
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3 When the time comes to write the history of
our age, this quiet birth, the creation of this
little lamb, will stand out. The world is a
different place now that she is born.
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4 Dolly is a clone. She was created not out
of the union of a sperm and an egg but out of the
genetic material from an udder cell of a
six-year-old sheep. Wilmut fused the udder cell
with an egg from another sheep, after first
removing all genetic material from the egg.
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The udder cells genes took up residence in the
egg and directed it to grow and develop. The
result was Dolly, the identical twin of the
original sheep that provided the udder cells, but
an identical twin born six years later. 5
Until Dolly entered the world, cloning was the
stuff of science fiction.
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It had been raised as a possibility decades ago,
then dismissed, something that serious scientists
thought was simply not going to happen anytime
soon. Now it is not fantasy to think that
someday, perhaps decades from now, but someday,
you could clone yourself and make tens, dozens,
hundreds of genetically identical twins.
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Nor is it science fiction to think that your
cells could be improved beforehand, genetically
engineered to add some genes and remove others. 6
True, it was a sheep that was cloned, not a human
being. But there was nothing exceptional about
sheep.
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Even Wilmut, who made it clear that he was
opposed to the very idea of cloning people, said
that there was no longer any theoretical reason
why humans could not clone themselves, using the
same methods he had used to clone Dolly. There
is no reason in principle why you couldnt do
it.
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But, he added, All of us would find that
offensive. 7 We live in a time when we argue
about pragmatism and compromises in our quest to
be morally right. But cloning forces us back to
the most basic questions that have plagued
humanity since the dawn of recorded time What is
good and what is evil? And how much potential
for evil can we tolerate to obtain something that
might be good?
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Cloning, with its possibilities for creating our
own identical twins, brings us back to the
ancient sins of vanity and pride the sins of
Narcissus, who so loved himself, and of
Prometheus, who, in stealing fire, sought the
powers of God. So before we can ask why we are so
fascinated by cloning, we have to examine our
souls and ask, What exactly so bothers many of us
about trying to make an exact copy of our
genetic selves? Or, if we are not bothered, why
arent we?
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8 We want children who resemble us. Even
couples who use donor eggs or donor sperm, search
catalogs of donors to find people who resemble
themselves. Several years ago, a poem by Linda
Pastan, called To a Daughter Leaving Home, was
displayed on the walls of New York subways. It
read
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Is it my own image
I love so in your
face? I lean over your
sleep, Narcissus over
his clear pool,
ready to fall in to drown
for you if necessary.
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Yet if we so love ourselves, reflected in our
children, why is it so terrifying to so many of
us to think of seeing our exact genetic replicas
born again, identical twins years younger than
we? Is it one thing for nature to form us through
a genetic lottery, and another for us to take
complete control, abandoning all thoughts of
somehow, through the mixing of genes, having a
child who is like us, but better?
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Normally, when a man and a woman have a child
together, the child is an unpredictable mixture
of the two. We recognize that, of course, in the
old joke in which a beautiful but dumb woman
suggests to an ugly but brilliant man that the
two have a child. Just think of how wonderful the
baby would be, the woman says, with my looks and
your brains. Aha, says the man. But what if the
child inherited my looks and your brains?
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9 Cloning brings us face-to-face with
what it means to be human and makes us confront
both the privileges and limitations of life
itself. It also forces us to question the powers
of science. Is there, in fact, knowledge that we
do not want? Are there paths we would rather not
pursue?
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10 The time is long past when we can speak of the
purity of science, divorced from its
consequences. If any needed reminding that the
innocence of scientists was lost long ago, they
need only recall the comments of J. Robert
Oppenheimer, the genius who was a father of the
atomic bomb and who was transformed in the
process from a supremely confident man, ready to
follow his scientific curiosity, to a humbled and
troubled soul, wondering what science had let
loose.
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11 Before the bomb was made, Oppenheimer
said, When you see something that is technically
sweet you go ahead and do it. After the bomb was
dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in a chilling
speech delivered in 1947, he said The
physicists have known sin and this is a
knowledge which they cannot lose.
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12 As with the atom bomb, cloning is complex,
multi-layered in its threats and its promises. It
offers the possibility of real scientific
advances that can improve our lives and save
them. In medicine, scientists dream of using
cloning to reprogram cells so we can make our own
body parts for transplantation.
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Suppose, for example, you needed a bone marrow
transplant. Some deadly forms of leukemia can be
cured completely if doctors destroy your own
marrow and replace it with healthy marrow from
some one else. But the marrow must be a close
genetic match to your own. If not, it will lash
out at you and kill you. Bone marrow is the
source of the white blood cells of the immune
system.
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If you have someone elses marrow, youll make
their white blood cells. And if these cells think
you are different from them, they will attack. 13
But suppose, instead, that scientists could take
one of your cellsany celland merge it with a
human egg. The egg would start to divide, to
develop, but it would not be permitted to divide
more than a few times. Instead, technicians would
bathe it in proteins that direct primitive cells,
embryo cells, to become marrow cells.
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What started out to be a clone of you could
grow into a batch of your marrowthe perfect
match. 14 More difficult, but not
inconceivable, would be to grow solid organs,
like kidneys or livers, in the same way. 15
Another possibility is to create animals whose
organs are perfect genetic matches for humans.
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If you need a liver, a kidney, or even a heart ,
you might be able to get one from a specially
designed pig clone. 16 The possibilities
are limitless, scientists say, and so, some
argue, we should stop focusing on our
hypothetical fears and think about the benefits
that cloning could bring.
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a. 1. (??)???, ?????? 2.
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bald
For example
Money is too bald a word. They prefer funds.
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produce young ?????
give birth to
For example
She gave birth to a healthy baby last night.
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Marxs ideas gave birth to communism.
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in every respect exactly ???????
for all the world
Translate
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He looked for all the world like a country doctor.
?????????????
I felt for all the world as if I were still a
child.
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n. 1. small round mark ??? 2. (idm??) on the
dot ??? ?????? v. 1. mark with a dot ??????
2. place here and there scatter ???????
dot
e.g. He is very punctualalways arrives on the
dot.
Translate
???????
The sky was dotted with stars.
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n. uniting or being united combination
association or club formed by uniting people or
groups ?????? ??????
union
e.g.We are working for the union of the two
countries.
Translate
In some industries you are compelled to join a
union as a condition of getting a job.
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n. ?????????? ??? v. (cause to) join
together (followed by with) ????
fuse
e.g.The bomb had been set with a four-hour fuse.
????????????????
Translate
He helped the old party fuse with the new one.
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go and livemove into (a certain position)
??,? ???(????)
take up
e.g.He took up his permanent residence in
Switzerland.
?????????
Translate
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The hunter took up his quarters in a hut.
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n. 1. the fact of living in a particular place
?? 2. house, esp. a large or impressive one
??,(??) ??,??,??
residence
e.g. a residence in the country
Translate
???10??????????
10 Downing Street is the British Prime Ministers
official residence.
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a. exactly alike or equal the very same
????? ???
identical
e.g.Theyre wearing identical clothes.
Translate
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This is the identical room we stayed in last year.
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adv. 1. in advance in readiness earlier
???????? 2. early or too early ???
beforehand
e.g.I had made preparations beforehand.
Translate
She is always beforehand with the rent.
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v. 1. ???? 2.??? (??)??
oppose
e.g.Who is opposing you in the match.
Translate
The suggestions were bitterly opposed by the
conservatives.
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a. 1. ??????? 2. ???
theoretical
e.g.This book is too theoretical I need a
practical one .
Translate
Lendls strength on clay gives him a theoretical
advantage.
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??? ??????
in principle
e.g.On the basis of the five principles for
peaceful coexistence there can be reasonable
dialogue between any two governments.?????????????
?????????????????
Translate
????????????,??????????
They have agreed to the proposal in principle but
we still have to negotiate the terms.
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a .??????????? ??? n. ??????? ????
offensive
e.g.The new general immediately launched an
offensive against the enemy.
Translate
?????????
I find your attitude most offensive .
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v. ?????????? ????? n. ?????? ??
compromise
e.g. I wanted to go to Greece, and my wife wanted
to go to Spain, so we compromised to go to Italy.
Translate
????????????????
Most wage claims are settled by compromise.
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a. ?????? n. (???)??(?? ??????)??,??
moral

e.g. The old gentleman claimed himself to be a
very moral man, who had never told a lie in his
life.
Translate
The moral of this story is Better late than
never.
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v. 1. ???? 2. ???????? n. ??
plague
e.g. She was plagued with arthritis. ??????????
Translate
The incidence of cholera in the camps has reached
plague proportions.
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a. 1. ??,?????? 2. ??????? n. ????????
??
potential
e.g. Every seed is a potential plant.
Translate
??????????
She has the potential as an artist.
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v. 1. ?? 2. ??
tolerate
e.g.The school can not tolerate cheating on exams.
Translate
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I cannot tolerate his rudeness.
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a. 1. very bright sparkling 2.
very intelligent highly skilled or
talented
brilliant
e.g. a brilliant color????? a brilliant
artist?????????
Translate
???????
The moon is brilliant.
??????????
He has a brilliant brain.
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v. 1. ??(??????) 2. ?????(???)
inherit
e.g.She inherited a little money from her
grandfather.
Translate
??????????????????
She inherited her mothers good looks and her
fathers bad temper.
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n. ??????,?? v. ??????
comment
e.g. Have you any comments to make on the recent
development?
Translate
Asked about the date of the election, the Prime
Minister commented that no decision had yet been
made.
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n. 1. ????? 2. ????
genius
e.g. Einstein was a mathematical genius.
Translate
It is rare to find such genius nowadays.
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set free release ????
let loose
e.g. Dont let that dog loose in the yard, as it
will terrify the kids.
Translate
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I darent let Bill loose on the garden, hed
pull up all the flowers.
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n. 1.????????? 2.????????? ????
curiosity
e.g. She is so eccentric that she is regarded as
a bit of curiosity.
Translate
????????,?????????????
He gave in to curiosity and opened the letter
addressed to his sister.
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n. ???? ?? (?????)
transplant
e.g. Transplant the seedlings into peaty soil.
??????????????
Translate
??????????????????????
The doctor will transplant a kidney from one twin
to another.
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make a sudden violent attack with blows or words
???? ????
lash out at
e.g. He lashed out at the oppositions policies.
Translate
?????????
He lashed out at them with his fists.
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a. 1. ????? 2. ??????
immune
e.g.We are not immune to the influences around us.
Translate
Im immune to smallpox as a result of vaccination.
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v. 1. (????)?? 2. ??????? (?????)
merge
e.g. Can one colour merge into another? If yes,
what colour will result?
Translate
The two marching columns moved closer and finally
merged.
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v. 1. ???? 2. ??(??????) ???????
conceive
For example
She was told she couldnt conceive.
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I cannot conceive that he would wish to harm us.
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Cultural Notes
clone a group of organisms or cells that are
genetically identical, having been produced from
one parent by asexual reproduction. The
individual organisms or cells are precise copies
of the parent and genetically identical to it.
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Cultural Notes
Clones are found naturally among single-celled
organism (such as bacteria), a few invertebrates
(such as corals), and some asexually reproducing
plants (as in the production of runners by a
strawberry plant). In agriculture, plant cloning
can be used to advantage, in that individuals
with desirable properties, such as
pest-resistance or high growth rates, can be
replicated exactly without the unpredictable
results associated with sexual reproduction.
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Cultural Notes
Artificial cloning of animals and cells can be
achieved by teasing apart the cells of the early
embryo. Similarly, cells capable of growing into
mature plants can be obtained from plant
growth-regions (meristems). In genetic
engineering cloning refers to the copying of DNA
molecules.
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Cultural Notes
genetic engineering the deliberate modification
of the genetic make-up (genome) of an organism by
manipulation of its DNA. Genetic engineering
techniques include cell fusion and the use of
recombinant DNA (rDNA). Since the late 1960s
these techniques have held out the most exciting
promise for biotechnology.
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Cultural Notes
In such a new field controversy inevitably
abounds. Worries concerning release of
genetically novel bacteria into the environment,
or the possible manipulation of human embryos,
have led to the setting up in the USA of the
Genetic Manipulation Advisory Group (GMAG).
Legislation governing genetic research has also
been passed in several other countries.
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Cultural Notes
Narcissus (in Greek mythology) a beautiful youth
who spurned??the love of the nymph?????????? Echo
and in punishment was made to fall in love with
his own reflection he pined away gazing at
himself in a pool and at his death was changed
into the flower bearing his name narcissus.???
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Prometheus in Greek mythology, a Titan who made
the first man from clay and stole fire from the
gods to give mankind.
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In revenge for the theft, Zeus??chained
Prometheus to a rock, where his liver was eaten
every day by an eagle, only to grow again every
night. Hercules??eventually rescued??him.
Prometheus has been seen as a symbol of freedom,
rebellion against tyranny, and of creative
imagination.
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Oppenheimer, (Julius) Robert (1904-1967) US
physicist. He was appointed in 1942 as Director
of the Manhattan Project, the secret project to
develop the atomic bomb in the USA during World
War II, based at Los Alamos, New Mexico, which in
1945 made the first atomic bomb.
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In 1953, at the height of the witch-hunting
campaign led by the US Senator Joseph McCarthy,
Oppenheimer was excluded from sensitive research
on the grounds that he had Communist sympathies,
but subsequently (1963) he was unreservedly
rehabilitated.
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Hiroshima?? Japanese city in southern Honshu.
Hitherto largely undamaged by US bombing
campaign, Hiroshima, became the target of the
first atomic bomb attack on 6 August 1945, which
resulted in the virtual obliteration of the city
center and the deaths of about one-third of the
population of 300,000. The attack on Hiroshima,
together with that on Nagasaki three days later,
helped bring about Japans unconditional
surrender and the end of world War II.
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Nagasaki?? Japanese city in Kyushu. On 9 August
1945, three days after the first atomic bomb
attack on Hiroshima, Nagasaki became the next
target. The hilly terrain protected the
population of 230,000 from the full effects of
the explosion, but 40,000 people were killed and
tremendous destruction caused. On the following
day Japan offered to surrender and the ceasefire
began on 15 August, the official surrender
finally being signed on 2 September.
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A Little Lamby clone
laugh
smile loudly
Author Unknown
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was slightly
gray, It didnt have a father, just some borrowed
DNA. It sort of had a mother, though the ovum was
on loan, It was not so much a lambkin, as a
little lamby clone.
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And soon it had a fellow clone, and soon it had
some more, They followed her to school one day,
all cramming through the door. It made the
children laugh and sing, the teachers found it
droll. There were too many lamby clones, for Mary
to control.
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A Little Lamby Clone
No other could control the sheep, since their
programs didnt vary, So the scientists resolved
it all, by simply cloning Mary. But now they feel
quite sheepish, those scientists unwary, One
problem solved, but what to do, with Mary, Mary,
Mary
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Quotations
Man has wrested from nature the power to make the
world a desert or to make the deserts bloom.
There is no evil in the atom only in mans
souls.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Technology is a queer thing it brings you great
gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back
with the other.

C. P. Snow
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One Machine can do the work of fifty ordinary
men. No machine can do the work of one
extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
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Humorous Story
Read the humorous story for fun. You might need
to look up new words in a dictionary.
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The scientist approached God and said,
Listen, weve decided we no longer need you.
Nowadays we can clone people, transplant hearts
and do all kinds of things that were once
considered miraculously. God patiently
heard him out, and then said, All right, to see
whether or not you still need me, why dont we
have a man-making contest? Okay,
great! the scientist said.
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Now were going to do this just like I did
back in the old days with Adam, God said.
Thats fine, replied the scientist, and bent to
scoop up a handful of dirt. Whoa! God
said, shaking his head in disapproval. Not so
fast, pal. You get your own dirt.
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The Movie
Enjoy the Movie, Please!
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• When and where was Dolly born?
• How was Dolly created? In what way is it
  different from other lambs?
• 3. What is the significance of Dollys birth?
• 4. What did scientists think of cloning decades
  ago?

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5. Is human cloning possible now that Dolly was
born? 6. What is Wilmuts attitude toward the
cloning of human? 7. What are the most basic
questions that have plagued humanity since the
dawn of recorded history?
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8. What is the message Linda Pastans poem
carries? 9. What does the old joke suggest? 10.
What brought about the profound changes in
Oppenheimer? What does the story of the
physicist remind us of? 11. What potential does
cloning have for medicine?
12. What is the authors attitude towards cloning?
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1. Is science pure? Can it be divorced from its
consequences? Why or why not? 2. What is good and
what is evil? How much potential for evil can we
tolerate to obtain something that might be
good? 3. What do you think of the prospects of
human cloning? Give reasons.
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Dolly the sheep, a clone, was born.
Dollys birth has made cloning a reality and
human cloning a possibility.
People have to face the ethical problems of human
cloning.
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Cloning technology could benefit people in more
than one way.
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Human cloning has given rise to the question of
what implications the technology may have for
mankind
The making of the atomic bomb had a tremendous
impact on scientists.
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Dictation
You are going to hear 10 words. Each will be read
three times. Write down the sentences according
to the dictation.
1
2
5
3
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You are going to hear 10 words. Each will be read
three times. Write down them according to the
dictation.
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12
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13
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You are going to hear 10 words. Each will be read
three times. Write down them according to the
dictation.
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You are going to hear 5 phrases. Each will be
read three times. Write down the them according
to the dictation.
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32
35
33
34
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ancient
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catalog
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dot
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immune
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terrify
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union
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atomic
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clone
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fuse
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inherit
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oppose
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theoretical
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batch
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comment
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gene
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merge
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potential
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tolerate
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beforehand
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compromise
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genius
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mixture
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primitive
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transplant
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brilliant
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curiosity
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identical
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normally
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residence
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lash out at
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in principle
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give birth to
let loose
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for all the world
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1. A green card is a registration card,
originally green, granting an alien permanent
in the United States. 2. It was
Marxs idea that
Communism. 3. In Istanbul, east and west
___________together in a way that is fascinating
to observe. 4. The _____________ surgery of those
days left my sister virtually deaf in one ear.
residence
gave birth to
fuse
primitive
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5. You inherit half your from
your father and half from your mother. 6. In a
____________ between management and unions, a 4
pay rise was agreed in return for an increase in
productivity. 7. Her house is furnished in a
curious _________ of old and modern styles. 8.
The Euro is a unit of currency that is used by
dozen countries that have joined the European
monetary(???)________.
genes
compromise
mixture
union
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9. I knew Michelle was coming that afternoon
because she had phoned me __________ . 10. What
__________ as fun quickly became hard work. 11.
The police chief has made no__________ about the
attack so far. 12. You dont have to go to a
store to buy things now. you can buy them on line
or through a mail-order _________.
beforehand
started out
comment
catalog
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13. This is certainly a ____________ risk but in
practice there is seldom a problem. 14. Susan
sounds for ______________ like her mother on the
telephone. 15. Some educators advocated a
bilingual education in schools but many parents
vigorously _________it..
theoretical
all the world
opposed
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1. Computer programming is the sort of work that
________ a high level of concentration. (call)
2. As I sat up very late last night, I
with a headache this morning. (wake)
3. As the crowd grew, riot police(????)
their position. (take) 4.
If you are not sure how to go about organizing a
party, go and ask Millie. She never
ideas for such things. (run)
calls for
woke up
took up
runs out of
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5. He is a small man with a big ego(??)that
about ________ him , doesnt it?
(sum) 6. When the coach was laid up with
pneumonia, the training rules of the team
. (break) 7. The senator
the administration for
its failure to come up with effective measures to
deal with the economic recession. (lash)
up
sums
broke down
lashed out at
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8. Old John has accumulated a large fortune in
the past few years but he never donates anything
to charity he an old
miser (???). (grow)
has grown into
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is dotted with colorful houses
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inherited a weak economy from the Conservative
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lashed out at the racial discrimination that
has plagued the American Blacks for more than two
hundred years.
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are immune to the
disease.
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will not tolerate such
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was opposed to
any theoretical
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1. I the idea
of cloning humans. I believe that
it is far less
for a person to use his or her own genetic
material to create
than to use bomb
to kill people. (be opposed to, terrify, twin,
identical, in principle, atomic)
am not opposed to
in principle
terrifying
an identical twin
an atomic
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2. Some people are wondering whether the advances
in science have been good. They say that the
discovery of atomic energy__________ a power far
more destructive than any weapons people have
invented since _______________. They think that
science has a great _________ for doing evil
unless we learn to harness it. (potential,
ancient, let loose)
let loose
ancient times
potential
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3. The young man was and had
a ___ mind for business management.
Soon after he ___________ his father a
local newspaper, he
another. Today his newspaper
one of the best-known national news
dailies. (brilliant, grow into, merge, inherit,
genius)
a genius
brilliant
inherited from
merged it with
has grown into
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Now rewrite the following
sentences, using would rather
1. Would you like her to take up residence
elsewhere?

2. Ill order tea. Or
perhaps youd like to have coffee?
Would you rather she took up residence elsewhere?
Ill order tea. Or perhaps youd rather have
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3. She would prefer working for a living to
becoming dependant on her husband. 4. I hope she
does not tell you the story.
She would rather work for a living than become
dependant on her husband.

Id rather she did not tell you the story.
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• An unusual present was given to Henry for his
  birthday.
  The present was a book on ethics.
• 2. He said he didnt notice the car till too
  late. The reason he gave was unsatisfactory.

An unusual present, a book on ethnics, was given
to Henry for his birthday.
The reason (he gave) that he didnt notice the
car till too late was unsatisfactory.
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3. Football has brought him many friends.
Football was his only interest in life.
4. Cloning had been raised as a possibility
decades ago, then dismissed.
It was something that serious
scientists thought was simply not going to happen
anytime soon.
Football, his only interest in life, has
brought him many friends.

Cloning had been raised as a possibility
decades ago, then dismissed, something that
serious scientists thought was simply not going
to happen anytime soon.
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1. Although the sentence is grammatically
correct, it does not read naturally.
2. Though there has been a considerable
increase in our living costs, the quality of our
life has improved significantly because our wages
have doubled over the same period.
True, the sentence is grammatically correct, but
it does not read naturally.
Its true there has been a considerable increase
in our living costs, but the quality of our life
has improved significantly because our wages have
doubled over the same period.
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3. Although Peter does not hold an MBA degree, he
is none the less a competent manager. 4. In
my country, teenagers are not allowed to buy
alcoholic drinks. Youre right, but were not
in your country, are we?
True, Peter does not hold an MBA degree, but he
is none the less a competent manager.
In my country, teenagers are not allowed to buy
alcoholic drinks. True, but were not in your
country, are we?
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• What would you do if the scheme does not work
  out?
• What shall we do if some scientists ignore
  bioethics and start to clone human beings?

What if the scheme does not work out?
What if some scientists ignore bioethics and
start to clone human beings?
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3. What will you do if you cant get home before
dark? 4. What difference would it make if I did
have a talk with your boss before he fired you?
What if you cant get home before dark?
What if I did have a talk with your boss before
he fired you?
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cloning
What do you think of ________ (1)?
What, like Dolly the sheep, that sort of
thing? Thats right. Personally,
I _____________(2) it. It seems far too
dangerous and could lead to all sorts of ________
(3) results. I had no idea you found
it so (4). You dont
___________(5) oppose such things.
Well, this seems to me to be one case where we
are taking human (6)
too far.
am opposed to
terrifying
offensive
normally
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in principle
Well, I cant say that Im against it
______(7). It seems to have the ___________(8) to
do a lot of good. What about
(9) from one person to another? They say that
cloning can help get over problems of rejection
by the _________(10) system. But what if
some evil (11) were to misuse the
idea? Do you remember that film, The Boys from
Brazil, all about a German scientist who was
reproducing (12) copies of
Hitler? Oh, come on. Now you really are
letting your imagination run away with you!
potential
transplanting
immune
genius
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Since Dolly came into existence, scientists
and politicians have been worrying about the
prospect that it will soon be possible to clone
humans, too. The debate centers (1) two
types of cloning reproductive, with the
intention of_______________(2) a baby, and
therapeutic (???), with the aim (3)
creating a source of embryonic stem cells (???)
__________ (4) might replace diseased organs of
the body. Cloning has
(5) strong supporters and fierce critics.
(6) the deeply held moral and
on
producing
of
that/which

both
Despite
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technological objections of many people, human
cloning (7) a small step forward
this week ________(8) an announcement by
researchers that they had successfully created a
(9) embryo through cloning,______(10)
the purpose of developing stem cells. They are
(11) the first to lay claim to such a
feat, (12) they are the first to
publish their findings. Their work was promptly
condemned (13) President George Bush,
(14) said it was morally wrong, and
by the Vatican, among many others.
took
with
human
for
not
but
by
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From a technical standpoint, such strong
_____
(15) seems out of line
with the slender scientific significance
(16) this development. The researchers used
(17) has become standard cloning method
in animals. This is to remove the nucleus (?)
containing genetic material (18) a
donor egg, and replace it (19) the
nucleus of another cell. The resulting stem cells
would then be genetically identical to the donor,
avoiding problems of rejection (20)
they are returned to the patient in treatment.
opposite/condemnation
of
what
from
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identical offensive twin clone terrify
batch immune tolerate transplant grow into
potential
???????,????????????????????????????????????,?
??????????????????????,?????
After Dolly was born, cloning could no longer
be dismissed as science fiction. The ability to
create an identical twin of a lamb is but one
step short of cloning humans, which many find
terrifying and offensive.
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identical offensive twin clone batch immune
tolerate transplant grow into potential
??,???????????????????????????,??????????????????
???????,????????????????????????????
However the technology holds great potential for
medical application. Scientists could cultivate a
batch of cells and direct them to grow into whole
organs or even limbs that will be genetically
identical to the patient, thus eliminating the
problem of rejection caused by immune reaction
when they are transplanted into his body.
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identical offensive twin clone terrify
batch immune tolerate transplant grow into
potential
????????????????????????????????????????,?????????
??????????????????????????????
Or they could take an organ from animals such as
a pig that has been genetically altered so that
it will be tolerated by the recipient. Then the
lives of thousands of patients who die every year
before a replacement heart, liver or kidney
becomes available would be saved.
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change opinion after considering (sth.) again
(?????)?? ??
have second thought(s) on
the chance or hope that sth. will happen ??,???
prospect n.
improve further the good quality or status of
??
enhance v.
made or produced as a copy of sth. natural not
real ?????
artificial a.
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