英语课件选修8Unit 2 CloningP5 Listening exercise.pptVIP

* Unit 2 Cloning 注: 另附 word 文档。 点击此处链接 Listen to the text. Xiao Qing (XQ) and Rachel Brown (RB) are discussing whether cloning is cruel to animals or not. IS CLONING CRUEL? RB: Xiao Qing, do you think cloning’s _____? XQ: What do you mean by that? The scientists are doing a __________ job. Soon they may be able to bring people’s favourite _____ back to life! RB: Yes, I know. But doesn’t it seem cruel to you that it took ___ experiments before Dolly was ___________ cloned? Think of all those live _____ and eggs that died Listen again and fill in the blanks. cruel wonderful pets 276 successfully cells in order for Dolly to be _____. I don’t approve of that! XQ: But, Rachel, be __________. Isn’t it always like that with a _____ science? This is the way people learn to do things ______. RB: I suppose so — but they also make the animals do such _________ things. One poor cow was made to give birth to a bison. What was the poor creature to think _______ it saw its baby? born reasonable new better unnatural when XQ: I don’t quite understand ____ so many people are ________ cloning. I think the scientists _____ a bit of encouragement. Think of the _______. Cloning may help medical science to produce cures for serious ________. RB: Yes, I know and I agree with that. It’s just that I don’t agree with the ________. XQ: Why not? why against need benefits illnesses methods RB: Well, I think it’s a dead _____. Dolly the sheep was “middle-aged” when she was born _______ her DNA came from a middle-aged “mother”. ________ your grandmother would mean a new baby started life as an _____ lady! XQ: Really? I ______ thought of that. end because old never Cloning RB: And it ________ the species. Cloning means that there’s _____ variety in the spe