Period One: Welcome to the unit & Reading

1. Period One: Welcome to the unit & Reading

2. Revision Match the words with their correct meanings. an important development human beings breakthrough mankind

3. help a woman or a female animal to give birth to a baby feeling that you have little hope and will do anything to get what you want legally become the parents of somebody else’s child deliver desperate adopt

4. progress completely the results of an action advances totally consequences

5. Welcome to the unit

6. Do you know cloning? Look at the following pictures and say what you know about them. I’m the world’s first cloned mammal Dolly.

7. Dolly and its creator

8. the world’s first cloned mule Idaho Gem

9. I was born on 4 May 2003, look! I’m growing stronger now.

10. scientists created me with a cell taken from my mother Rainbow. My name is Cc, I was born in December 2002.

11. Our names areNoel, Engel, Star, Joy, andMary. Can you recognize each ofus?

12. We were born on 5 July 1998 in Ishikawa, Japan. And we were two years younger than Dolly.

13. My name is Andi, I’m the first genetically modified monkey.

14. cloned chicken

15. the cloned deer

16. dog Snuppy created by Korean and American scientists Look! I’m having a birthday party.

17. Keke and Shuangshuang in China.

18. cloned rabbits born in Guangxi University.

19. Discussion: Do you think human beings should be cloned? Work in pairs with your partner and discuss the questions below. 1. What effects do you think human cloning might have?

20. 2. Do you think governments should pass laws to make human cloning legal or illegal? Why or why not? 3. If you had a cloned brother or sister who looked exactly like you, how would you feel?

21. Reading

22. Now listen to the tape and answer the following questions. 1. Does the article give an anti-or pro-cloning point of view, or both? 2.What was the name of the first cloned mammal? 3.Is Pauline Carter pro-or anti-cloning? Both Dolly Anti-cloning.

23. Read fast and decide T or F. 1. People all over the world are happy about the idea of cloning human beings. 2. Dolly, the first cloned mammal, is exactly the same as other sheep. 3. According to the article, the scientist who created Dolly does not agree with cloning human beings. F F T

24. 4. Cloning can be used to cure diseases because it can produce new tissues and organs. 5. Colin Jake is against cloning humans, just like Pauline Carter. 6. Cloning human beings is illegal in many countries, so no scientists want to clone human beings. T F F

25. Find the reasons why people are pro-or anti-cloning in the article and letters and write them down.

26. create more diseases in the animal world cure diseases like cancer help those who are unable to have children cloning shows no respect for human life help those who want to clone their dead children human life would no longer be unique

27. we should be having fewer babies in order to reduce Earth’s population, not cloning more

28. Fill in the blanks with the words in the box.

29. Dear Editor, I read your article about human _______with great concern. I first heard of cloning animals from a single ____when I went to a seminar about Dolly the sheep, who was ___________cloned in 1996, in Britain. At the time I thought that the whole concept of cloning was________. cloning cell successfully immoral

30. Why do some people think they have the _____ to go against nature? Who will be responsible for the possible negative____________? If we interfere with nature, we might create problems. It seems that I was correct — your article says that Dolly died at a much ________age than a non-cloned sheep. right consequences younger

31. Also I can’t accept the idea of cloning _______. We have no right to experiment with human life. I believe that strict_____ should be put in place and governments should do more to stop human cloning. For example, the work of the ______doctor, Severino Antinori, must be stopped. humans laws Italian

32. If I were the President of Italy, I would think about taking away his license. Yours faithfully, Wanglin

33. Language points 1. On the other hand, many people, including some scientists, disagree and fear that if mankind interferes with nature in this way, they would be on their way to producing a real-life Frankenstein’s monster. 另一方面, 包括一些科学家在内的很多人则持不同意见, 他们担心如果人们用这种方式干涉自然, 那就可能离制造出一个现实生活中的弗兰肯斯坦怪物不远了。

34. on (the) onehand, on the other hand 一方面……，另一方面……如： On the one hand, rapid development of the economy will improve the livingconditions of the people.On the otherhandit will speed up environmental destruction.一方面经济的迅速发展会改善人们的生活状况, 另一方面它会加速环境的破坏。

35. 2. I don’t want to adopt someone else’s child and I don’t want to use another woman’s egg —I want a child that is genetically related to me. 我不想领养别人的孩子,我也不想借用别的女人的卵子——我想要一个跟我在基因上有关联的孩子。

36. 1）adopt “ 收养，领养”。 如： He adopted the orphan. 他收养了那孤儿。 此外，adopt还有 “采纳，采用”的意思。如： Can a school adopt the policy prohibiting the use of mobile phones on campus? 学校能采纳禁止在学校使用手机的政策吗?

37. 2) be related to “与……关联， 与……有联系”如： In his essay, the author writes about how art is related to culture. 作者在论文里阐述了艺术与文化的联系。

38. 3. Most of the time it turns out that humans are not really profiting when they damage the environment. 在多数情况下的结果是, 人类在破坏环境之际并没有真正收益。 turn out+形容词/不定式/从句，意为 “结果是, 证明是”。 如：

39. It was a difficult time, but eventually things turned out fine. 那是一段艰难的时期, 但最终情况却不坏。 That guy turned out to be my friend’s brother. 结果那个家伙是我朋友的弟弟。 To my surprise, it turned out that I was wrong. 令我惊奇的是, 结果证明我错了。

40. Thank you