英语：Unit3ScienceandnatureSectionAWelcometotheunitReading测试（译林牛津版必修5）.doc

第  PAGE 6 页 共  NUMPAGES 6 页 Section A Welcome to the unit & Reading I. 短文填空 请根据短文内容及所给首字母提示，补全所缺单词。 Nothing really prepared the world for the 1997 (1) a______ that a group of Scottish scientists had created a (2)c______ sheep named Dolly. Nowadays many people believe that within a few (3) d______, there will be another (4) s______—the first cloned human. Scientists in South Korea have already created human embryonic stem cells through cloning. Until now, the idea of human cloning has only been possible through movie magic, but the natural progression of science is making human cloning a real (5) p______. Some countries have made laws (6) b______ cloning, but it is still legal in many countries. There is no federal law forbidding cloning in the United States, but several states have passed their own laws to ban the (7) p______. In Japan, human cloning is a (8) c_______ for which one will be punished by up to 10 years in prison. England has allowed cloning human embryos but passed a law to ban total human cloning. Ian Wilmut, one of the co-creators of Dolly, has even said that human cloning projects would be criminally irresponsible. Cloning technology is still in its early (9) s_______, and nearly 98 percent of cloning efforts end in (10) f_______. II. 单词拼写 请根据句意及所给首字母或汉语提示完成下列句子。 1. —You missed the first class this morning, didn’t you? —Not e_______. I had got there ten minutes before it ended. 2. I’m sorry, but I said these with no i_______ of hurting your feelings. 3. Quite a few students suffer a_______ before examinations. They need advice on how to relax to achieve high grades. 4. Countries and regions should a_______ long-term plans to prevent litter from ending up in the oceans. 5. Lin Tao studied hard all day, as a c_______ of which he was admitted to Beijing University. 6. My hometown, which used to be a poor and small town, has been t_______ into a big modern city. 7. In order to protect rare wild animals,