人教版高中英语选修8 Unit 2 Reading课件.ppt

Problems or dangers of cloning Advantages of cloning Evil leaders may want to clone themselves. Cloning plants can be useful for research on new plant species. There are moral objections to cloning human beings. Cloning can help save endangered animals. Careful reading 重难点句式分析 1. It also happens in animals when twins identical in sex and appearance are produced from the same original egg. 时间状语从句 这种现象也发生在动物身上，从同一个原生卵子产生性别和相貌相同的双胞胎也是克隆。 original egg 原生卵子 定语 修饰twins identical 同一的；完全相同的 Translation The two rooms were virtually identical. 1. 这两个房间几乎一模一样。? When he was a child he was always trying out new ideas. 2. 他小时候总是尝试一些新的想法。 2. Although at present human egg cells and embryos needed for cloning research are difficult to obtain, newspapers wrote of evil leaders hoping to clone themselves to attain their ambitions. 让步状语从句 尽管目前供克隆研究的人体细胞和胚胎还很难得到，但是报纸报道说，有些邪恶头目希望把自己克隆出来以实现他们的野心。 attain 实现；获得 v-ed 短语修饰human egg cells and embryos write of vt. 写, 记述 Translation He has attained the highest grade in his music exams. 1.他在音乐考试中得了最高分。? Hes rather shy, although hes not as bad as he used to be. 2.他很腼腆，但是比以前要好一些了。 Cloning is a way of ___________________ of another animal or plant. It has two major uses. One is to produce commercial quantities of plants; ________ is for research on new plant species and for medical research on animals. Cloning plants is straightforward _______ cloning animals is difficult to undertake. However, scientists’ hard work _______ in 1996 _____ the cloning of Dolly the sheep. Though it was encouraging ______ the sheep seemed to grow normally, it died after a short life of only six and a half years in the world. the other making an exact copy while with that paid off Complete the passage with proper words, which will help you retell the text. As a result, it _______ (puzzle) all scientists with different questions. Besides, the appearance of Dolly raised a storm of __________ (object) and public imagination. ____ got people to think about the