2021年大学英语考试考前冲刺卷（1）新整理.doc

大学英语考试考前冲刺卷（1） 本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。 严格遵守考试纪律，维护考试秩序！ 一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.The sensational news a couple of years ago that scientists had cloned a sheep sent academics and the public into a panic at the prospect that humans might be next. That is a (62) reaction. Cloning is a (63) challenge to the most fundamental laws of biology, (64) it is not unreasonable to be (65) that it might threaten human society and dignity. Yet much of the ethical opposition seems also to grow out of an unthinking disgust—sort of yuck(令人厌恶的事物)factor. And that makes it hard for even (66) scientists and ethicists to (67) the matter clearly. While human cloning might not offer great benefits to humanity, no one has yet made a persuasive (68) that it would do any real harm, (69) . Theologians (神学专家) (70) that to clone a human would (71) human dignity. That would surely be true if a cloned individual were treated as a (72) being, with fewer rights or lower (73) . But why suppose that cloned persons wouldn’t share the same rights and dignity as the rest of us A leading ethicist has suggested that cloning would violate the right to genetic identity. (74) did he come up with such a right It makes perfect (75) to say that adult persons have a right not to be cloned without their voluntary, informed consent. But if such consent is given, whose right to genetic identity would be violated Many of the science fiction scenarios(剧情) (76) by the prospect of human cloning turn out, (77) reflection, to be absurdly improbable. There is the fear, for instance, that parents might clone a child to have spare parts (78) the original child needs an organ (79) . But parents of (80) twins don’t view one child (81) an organ farm for the other. Why should cloned children’s parents be any different A. Why B. Which C. Where D. When 参考答案：C[解析] 空格所在句意为：“他______想到这样的权利 ”该句就前面一句内容进行提问。上句说“一位著名的伦理家曾表示克隆会践踏‘基因身份权’。”接着作者就此提出疑问，空格应填入“从哪里”，对这一权利的来历表示不解。故C项为答案。[词义分析] 本题考查疑问词词义辨析：why意为“为什么”；w