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M5U3 Reading—The Perfect Copy Scientists have ___1_____ that they have cloned the first human embryo. This has caused much __2_____round the world. On the one hand, some scientists point out that__3__ you clone an embryo, you can produce valuable human tissues—such as bone or lung tissue—that could be used to save human lives. On __4_ _____ hand, many people, ___5___ some scientists, disagree and are afraid___6__, if mankind__7___ with nature in this way, we may be on our way to ___8___ a real-life Frankenstein's monster. 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ 5_________ 6_________ 7_________ 8_________ Cloning is producing an ____1__ copy of a plant or an animal using its cells. The first mammal ___2___(clone) successfully from an adult cell was Dolly the sheep. She was born in 1996 and died in early 2003, at a much younger age than __3___. When she was born, many people were worried that __4____ would lead to more diseases in the animal world. However, in ____5___ the scientists were praised for their wonderful ___6___ advance. 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ 5_________ 6_________ Ian Wilmut, the Scottish scientist who created Dolly, is ____1___ that some scientists are now considering __2____ human beings. Although he ____3___ cloning, his ____4___ has never been ___5____(create) copies of humans. Instead, he thinks research efforts should ____6____on creating new tissues and organs that can be used to _7__ diseases like cancer. However, some people believe that cloning human embryos with the Intention of destroying them shows no ___8__ for human life. 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ 5_________ 6_________ 7_________ 8_________ Even though human cloning is causing a lot of __1____, it is good news for Faye Wilson, a 41-year-old saleswoman who cannot have a baby. ‘1 am ___2____ to have a child _3_ my own,' she says. ’1 don't want to adopt someone __4__child— if 1 had the chance, 1 ____5___(have) a cloned baby right now.' 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ 5_________ ___1__ cloning human embryos is not legal in many countries, some scientists are already __2__ ahead with research in order to produce a __3__(clone) human baby. Severino Antinori, an Italian physician, has __4____ that he wants to be the first __5_ (clone) a human being. 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ 5_________ In China, scientists have ___1___ their efforts on __2__ (clone) animals, as well as ___3___(clone) tissues to be used in medical treatment. China has ____4_____in producing clones of cows and 1_________ 2_________ goats, and continues to research ways in __5____ cloning can benefit mankind. 3_________ 4_________ 5_________ Dear Editor 1 believe that human cloning is wrong. If we __1__ with nature, we will have to deal with the _____2____. Who knows what could happen? Human life would just become a crop to be harvested or a product for___3___. The human race is using __4__ the Earth’s natural wealth. We should be having fewer babies in order to reduce the Earth's ___5___, not __6___more. I feel sorry for the lady who cannot have a baby, but I would like to point out that there are many children in the world with no parents who would be ___7___ to have a mother. Pauline Carter 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ 5_________ 6_________ 7_________ Dear Editor I would like to ___1____ on your article, ‘The perfect copy'. I think the scientific advances ___2_____ in your article are ___3__! I am in complete ____4___ with human cloning. After all, scientists ___5_____(challenge) moral ideas for centuries. Why should we stop them now? On a personal ___6__, cloning would totally ____7____my life. Seven years ago, my 10-yeat-old daughter died of heart failure. She was beautiful, cheerful and bright. I miss her every single day. If I ___8___ the chance, I would clone her immediately so that I could be with her again. Colin Jake 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ 5_________ 6_________ 7_________ 8_________ Man and nature For a long time, our environment has been damaged because humans have been careless. People have harmed nature ___1__ agriculture, fishing, hunting and tourism. We __2___damage the Earth by building new channels in the sea and factories on the land, and by creating pollution _3__chemical waste. We will some day destroy the planet we live_4__ if we continue in this way. 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ However, if we focus only on ___1___, then people may suffer. Not everything that is best for nature is good for people. Would anyone say that development should be stopped in ___2__ of nature? __3__ the point of view of some people, we are only doing what humans have always done, __4___(use) nature to __5__our own needs. Other people argue that such thinking may cause a ____6____, unless we start to look around and understand how a clean environment ___7______ us all. 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ 5_________ 6_________ 7_________ After__1____ of destroying nature and using up natural ____2__, many i developed nations are now __3____about saving nature _4__ _____ developing or destroying It. However, many poorer nations must focus on ___5__ the everyday needs of their people. In doing so, they are using up natural resources at a fast ___6__ They have not yet seen the__7__of the careless use of the environment like many wealthy nations have. Often they do not realize that the choices they __8__ are bad for the environment. Should they be __9__ for destroying hundreds of thousands of acres of rainforest if it means a __10__ income for their people? The developed and developing countries of the world need to work together to make sure that people enjoy healthy and happy lives, without the environment around them ___11_____. 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ 5_________ 6_________ 7_________ 8_________ 9__________ 10_________ 11_________ It should not be a question of humans __1__and nature___2__. Humans can only really win by protecting nature. After all, food has to be produced in a healthy, natural system, and we all need clean air to ___3___ and pure water to drink. It is mankind's _____4_____ to find answers that are good for everyone, and everything. 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ GM food： hope or danger? In recent years, there___1___(be) great progress in the study of genetics. With this progress, doors have been opened up to ___2___ that never existed before. _3__ many people are __4__ about these new technologies, these same technologies _5___ others. Nowhere __6_this truer than with__7__ ___ (GM) food. 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ 5_________ 6_________ 7_________ There are two ways in which a plant or an animal can be genetically modified. First, new material can be __1___ into its DNA to give the plant or animal ___2__ which it would never have in nature. Second, material can be taken from the DNA of a plant or an animal in order to ___3__ qualities which are not ____4___. 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ One aim of GM research is to produce food which will make us healthier. So far, this technology __1____(use)to produce plants which are better able to defend themselves __2___ pests and disease. Supporters of GM food ___3____that GM plants are healthier and have larger harvests. __4____ there has been research in GM animals such as pigs, no GM meat ___5__(sell) at present. 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ 5_________ Many questions have been___1___ about GM food. No one really knows whether it is safe for animals or humans to eat. Scientists __2___that more tests should be done on CM food. Research has been limited to __3___ production __4___, rather than making sure that GM foods are safe. GM food could therefore be dangerous to eat. 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ There is also a question __1__ to whether GM plants are safe for the environment. ____2__ GM crops are planted outside, they are part of the food __3___―insects and other animals eat them or use their products, and these insects and animals will be eaten by yet other animals. No one knows what effects the GM material might have __4__ the food chain. 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________ Since no one really knows whether CM food is safe, many countries have ___1___ to give ___2___for the production of GM foods, __3_ they would rather be ___4____ with this new technology. 1_________ 2_________ 3_________ 4_________