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Unit 2　Cloning Period One　Warming Up Reading (Ⅰ) 基础落实 Ⅰ.课文理解 1． The main idea of the text is that________. A．animal cloning is very valuable and can benefit the world B．animal cloning could be misused by bad people so it must be forbidden C．animal cloning is well developed because Dolly the sheep was born D．animal cloning raised arguments and scientists are not sure about its future 2． Dolly the sheep ________. A．looked exactly like the sheep that provides the egg B．was the exact copy of the sheep that provides the nucleus C．looked like the sheep that gave birth to it D．had the characteristics of all three sheep 3． The sheep that donated the somatic cell most probably lived ________ years. A．3 B．6 C．9 D．13 4． The cloning of Dolly the sheep succeeded because ________. A．it’s easier to clone a sheep than other animals B．the scientists were determined and worked hard with patience C．the scientists were rewarded and got lots of money D．many other attempts to clone mammals failed Ⅱ.课文缩写 Cloning is a way of making an exact 1.________ of another animal or plant.Cloning has two major uses.Firstly，gardeners use it to produce 2.________ quantities of plants.Secondly，it is 3.________ for research.Cloning plants is 4.________ while cloning animals is very complicated.The procedure is difficult to undertake. In 1996，scientists succeeded in 5.________ Dolly the sheep.The scientific world 6.________ the progress of the first successful clone.Then came the 7.________ news that Dolly was ill and then died.Dolly’s appearance 8.________ a storm of objections. Governments became nervous and some forbade research into human cloning.Scientists still 9.________ whether cloning will help or harm us and where it is 10.________ us. Ⅲ.用适当的介、副词填空 1． It happens ________ plants when gardeners take cuttings ________ growing plants to make new ones. 2． Secondly，it is valuable ________ research ________ new plant species and ________ medical research on animals. 3． But at last the dete