2014-2015学年高中英语选修8（人教版）《Unit 2　Cloning》课时作业（三）　Warming Up Reading Word版含答案.docVIP

Unit 2　Cloning 课时作业(三)　Warming Up Reading Ⅰ.单词拼写 1．The media reported that many local people ________ (反对) to the building of the new airport. 2．David has ________ (获得) the highest grade in the music exam. 3．________ (总计) there were 18 people killed in the accident，but the exact cause of it was unknown. 4．Ive made a few corrections to your essay，but I________ (禁止) you to make such mistakes again. 5．The work was ________ (承担) by members of the committee. 6．Sound travels through the ________(媒介) of air. 7．New York is a big ________ (商业的) city. 8．It had largely replaced ________ (道德上的) judgements. 9．Whats the ________ (手续) for opening a bank account? 10．I must insist on your giving me a ________ (直接的) answer. Ⅱ.完形填空 A clone is an exact copy of a plant or animal__1__from any one cell.Since Scottish scientists reported that they had__2__to clone a sheep named Dolly in 1997，research into cloning has grown rapidly.In May 1998，scientists in Massachusetts managed to create two identical calves(牛犊)__3__cloning technology.A mouse has also been cloned successfully，but the debate over cloning humans really started when Chicago__4__Richard Seed made a surprising announcement.“We will have managed to clone a human being within the next two years，”he told the world. Seeds announcement__5__a lot of medias attention.In Europe，nineteen nations have already__6__an agreement banning human cloning and in the US the President __7__：“We will be __8__ a law to ban human cloning and many states in the US will have__9__anticloning laws by the end of the year.” Many researchers are not so __10__ about cloning.They are worried that laws__11__human cloning will threaten important research.In March，the New England Journal of Medicine called any plan to ban research on cloning humans__12__mistaken.Many researchers also believe that in spite of attempts to ban it，human cloning will have become routine by 2010 because it is__13__to stop the progress of science. Is there a reason to fear that cloni