[金版学案]2014-2015学年人教版高中英语选修八练习：Unit 2 第一学时 Reading and Comprehension - 图文

尽管目前供克隆研究的人类卵细胞和胚胎很难获得，报纸报道说，有些邪恶头目希望把自己克隆出来以实现他们的野心。宗教领袖也提出了道德方面的问题。各国政府惶恐不安而且更加谨慎。有些政府开始改革司法制度，明令禁止进行克隆人类的研究，但是其他国家，如中国和英国，则仍然在继续收集克隆技术有可能提供丰富的医疗救助的证据。然而科学家们仍对克隆技术有助于人类还是有害于人类，以及克隆技术将把我们引向哪里感到困惑。

二、课文精选段落背诵，请注意划线和黑体字的语言现象 On_the_one_hand，the whole scientific world followed the progress of the first successful clone，Dolly the sheep.The_fact_that she seemed

to

develop

normally

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encouraging.Then_came_the_disturbing_news_that Dolly had become seriously ill.Cloning scientists were cast down to find that Dolly's illnesses were more appropriate to a much older animal. Altogether Dolly lived six and a half years, half the length of the life of the original sheep.Sadly the same arbitrary fate affected other species，such as cloned

mice.The_questions_that_concerned_all_scientists_were：“Would this be a major difficulty for all cloned animals? Would it happen forever？Could it be solved if corrections were made in their research procedure？”

On_the_other_hand，Dolly's appearance raised a storm of objections and had a great impact on the media and public

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imagination.It became controversial. It suddenly opened everybody's eyes to the possibility of using cloning to cure serious illnesses and even to produce human beings.

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