2014-2015学年高中英语选修8（人教版）《Unit 2　Cloning》课时作业（四）　Using Language Word版含答案.docVIP

课时作业(四)　Using Language Ⅰ.单词拼写 1．The new aircraft has performed very well in its ________ (最初的)trials. 2．Three of the chickens ________ (孵出) today. 3．The ________ (羽毛) of a pigeon can bring you good luck! 4．He gave me a ________ (合理的) explanation. 5．I ________ (只是) suggest you should do it again. 6．She put some ________ (装饰) on the Christmas tree. 7．The great ________ (缺点) to living near a main road is noise. 8．A little baby is ________ (不能的) to walk or talk. 9．Its traditional in England to eat ________ (火鸡) on Christmas Day. 10．We tried in ________(徒劳的) to persuade him to go with us. Ⅱ.阅读理解 A A team of Michigan State University(MSU) researchers has developed a new，more efficient way of cloning zebra fish，a breakthrough that could have an impact on research into human health. Zebra fish are quickly becoming the animal of choice for many researchers. “After mice，they are the most commonly used vertebrates，that is，animals with backbones，in genetic studies，”says Jose Cibelli，the leader of the team.“They are used in cancer and heart-disease research because they have many of the same genes as people have.” For more than 20 years，zebra fish have also served as an excellent model for understanding both normal development and birth imperfections.More recently，research with zebra fish has extended to modeling human diseases. Traditional cloning uses an egg and a donor(捐赠者) cell.The DNA is removed from the egg and replaced by the DNA taken from the donor.The resulting fish is an exact genetic copy of the donor.In Cibellis technique，the egg is removed from the female zebra fish and placed in the ovarian(卵巢的) fluid of a Chinook salmon，another kind of fish，before the donor cell is placed into the egg.The previous methods of cloning zebra fish had very low survival rates.With the new technique，the number of cloned fish is increased by 15 percent. What makes zebra fish so useful in research is that their eggs are transparent(透明的)，making the fishs development easy to follow. Imp