2009年6月英语六级快速阅读(更新至5).docVIP

2009年6月英语六级快速阅读训练（1） [ 09/04/28 15:34 | by admin ] 大 | 中 | 小 2009年四六级备考在线课程推荐 15小时速听速记大学英语6级词汇 大学英语4级考试标准阅读挑战高分160篇 新东方在线，CET新六级在线模考 CET六级高分精品班（送刘畅背词课程） 【新东方在线】CET六级高分精品班 2009年6月大学英语四级、六级报考资格通知 09年四六级备考在线课程推荐 【新东方在线】CET六级425通关班 CET四级高分精品班（送四级4000词汇课程） The world was stunned by the news in the summer of 1995, when a British embryologist named Ian Wilmut, and his research team, successfully cloned Dolly the sheep using the technique of nuclear transfer. Replacing the DNA of one sheep’s egg with the DNA of another sheep’s the team created Dolly. Plants and lower forms of animal life have been successfully cloned for many years, but before Wilmuts announcement, it had been thought by many to be unlikely that such a procedure could be performed on larger mammals and life forms. The world media was immediately filled with heated discussions about the ethical implications of cloning. 　　Some of the most powerful people in the world have felt compelled to act against this threat. President Clinton swiftly imposed a ban on federal funding for human-cloning research. Bills were put in the works in both houses of Congress to outlaw human cloning because it was deemed as a fundamentally evil thing that must be stopped. But what, exactly, is bad about it? From an ethical point of view, it is difficult to see exactly what is wrong with cloning human beings. The people who are afraid of cloning tend to assume that someone would, for example, break into Napoleons Tomb, steal some DNA and make a bunch of emperors. In reality, infertile people who use donated sperm, eggs, or embryos would probably use cloning. Do the potential harms outweigh the benefits of cloning? From what we know now, they dont. Therefore, we should not rush placing a ban on a potentially useful method of helping infertile, genetically at-risk, homosexual, or single people to become parents. 　　Do human beings have a right to reproduce? No one has the moral right to tell another person that they should not be able