高二英语 unit3 reading

Pro-cloning
Anti-cloning
1.Produce valuable tissues 1.May produce a real● Fill in the form and organs that could be life Frankenstein’s
used to save human lives monster
1.If human cloning was successful, w●hPooswt-oreualddibneg happy apart from the 2p.●DaDoreisyncotuuss?sthioinnk it would be easy for the cloned baby to accept his or her social identity as a cloned human being? 3.What would the cloned baby call the original cell owner, mother/ father or sister/brother? What would the person that had the original cell fell about the cloned baby?
Faye Wilson, a woman of 41 years old who cannot have a baby. She is desperate to have a baby of his own, a child that is geneticallys like cancer 2.Create more disease
in the animal world
3.Help those who are
3.Cloning shows no
unable to have children
respect for humans
4.Help those who want to 4.Human life would clone their dead children no longer be unique
3.According to the passage, what is the real intention of Ian Wilmut”s cloning research? D A. To create copies of humans in the end. B. To destroy human embryos in the end. C. To create new tissues or organs for sale. D. To cure deadly diseases eventually.
5.Having fewer babies to reduce population, not cloning more
● More questions ● 1.What are the different attitudes towards the success of cloning a human cell?
3.Read through the article a few times.
Check the answers
D 1 b 2 a ● Part D. E 3 d 4 e 5 c 6 g 7 h 8 f
E 1 cloning 2 cell 3 successfully 4 immoral 5 right 6 consequences 7 younger 8 humans 9 laws 10 Italian
1.Does the Skimming and Scanning article give an anti- or
Read the article and letters quickly and answer these questions.
pro-cloning point of view, or both? Both
● 2.What does Ian W ilmut, the Scottish scientist who created Dolly, intend to use cloning for?
● 3.Who are the three persons in the article related to cloning?
Severino Antinori, an Italian doctor, who is one of the leaders in the cloning research. He has declared that he wants to be the first to clone a human being.
•3.Who are the three persons in the article related
to cloning? Ian Wilmut, a Scottish scientist who created Dolly and was shocked when hearing some scientists were considering cloning human beings. He never intends to create copy of humans. Instead, he thinks the efforts of scientists should be directed towards creating new cells and organs that could eventually be used to cure diseases like cancer.
•2.What does Iran Wilmut, the Scottish
scientist who created Dolly, intend to use
cloning for?
He thinks research efforts should be concentrated on creating new tissues and organs that could eventually be used to cure diseases like cancer.
Reading strategy: Understanding scientific terms
1.Read the first and last paragraphs for an idea of what the article is about.
2.Scan the body of the article. Circle the words you don’t know.
Lead-in
Gaur is a kind of endangered Asian ox. Noah, a gaur, was the first clone of an endangered animal born on 8 January 2001. Scientists at Advanced Cell Te c h n o lo g y s u c c e e d e d i n c l o n i n g t h e b a b y g a u r. U n f o r t u n a t e ly, N o a h d i e d t w o d a ys later. The experiment proved that it was possible to save endangered species through cloning.
2.The success of the cloned sheep Dolly has proved that___C______. A. cloning will create more diseases in
animal world B. cloned animals will die at a much younger age than normal C. man has been able to produce an exact copy from an adult cell D. man can interfere with nature at his will
2.What was the name of the first cloned animal?
Dolly
3.Is Pauline Carter pro- or anti-cloning Anti-cloning
F Not all people
●True or False F Not exactly
Reading comprehension: 1.The announcement of successful human embryo cloning has caused much debate because__A______. A. people still have no clear idea about the results of human cloning B. valuable tissues and organs can be used to save humans C. mankind is going to produce terrible monsters D. people know that nature will punish mankind for human cloning
•1.What are the different attitudes towards the •success of cloning a human cell?
Valuable tissues and organs can be produced and be used to save human lives. Human beings may be on the way to producing a real-life monster. Some people consider cloning human embryos with the intention to destroy them shows no respect for human life.
5. What can we infer from the whole passage? B A. Cloning animals is illegal in Italy. B. Chinese scientists are trying to benefit mankind by using cloning technology. C. Chinese scientists want to be the first to clone a human baby. D. Colin Jake agrees with the scientists who want to clone a human baby.
4. How does a woman who cannot give a birth benefit from cloning? B A. She can have a baby by using another woman’s egg. B. She can have a baby genetically related to her. C. She can adopt someone else’s child by cloning. D. She can have more children.
●1.People all over the world are happy about
the idea of cloning human beings.
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●2.Dolly, the first cloned mammal, iTs exactly the same as other sheep. ●3.According toFthNe oatrtliicklee, the scientist who created Dolly does not agree with cloning huFmaAn bfeewingscsi.entists