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The Chinese scientist behind the development of the worlds largest cloning factory in Tianjin, China, claims (声称) that the facility (设备) possesses the technology to clone humans. He added that the only thing holding them back from cloning a person is the fear of how the public would react to it. The giant cloning factory, which is due to open within the next seven months, is backed by Boyalife group in collaboration with South Korean company Sooam Biotech Research Foundation. It plans to be cloning 1 million cows a year by 2020, and also aims to clone other animals such as racehorses and police dogs. ?Everything in the supermarket looks good — its almost all shiny, goodlooking, and uniformly shaped. For animals, we werent able to do that in the past. But with our cloning factory, we choose to do so now，” Boyalife CEO Xu Xiaochun said. There are different opinions when it comes to whether the cloned beef is safe for human consumption. The US Food and Drug Administration says it is, but the European parliament (议会) disagrees and has backed a ban on cloned animals and produce in the food chain, reports the Daily Mail. Section Ⅰ Welcome to the unit Reading — Prereading The perfect copy Scientists have announced① that they have cloned② the first human embryo③. This has caused much debate round the world. On the one hand④， some scientists point out⑤ that if you clone an embryo, you can produce valuable human tissues⑥ — such as bone or lung tissue — that could be used to save⑦ human lives. On the other hand⑧， many people, including some scientists⑨， disagree and are afraid that, if mankind toys with⑩ nature in this way?， we may be? on our way to producing a reallife? Frankensteins monster?. Cloning is producing an exact? copy of a plant or an animal? using its cells?. The first mammal? to be cloned successfully? from an adult cell was Dolly the sheep?. She was born in 1996 and died in early 2003, at a much younger age than normal. When she was born, many people were w