外研新标准 第六册 选修 6

Module 5 Listening

Objective 能识别听力中新学的词汇、短语并 正确理解其含义。能听懂对话中主 要内容并提取信息。

Listen to the passage.

Listen and fill in the missing words. Presenter: Our topic for this week is ______. To discuss it, we have with us Dr Hugh Donaville, head of a company that has already cloned __ _______ __ animals. Hugh D: Good morning. Presenter: Dr Donaville, could you begin with __ ______ __________ of cloning? Hugh D: Certainly. Cloned animals are created in a laboratory. They take all their genes from __ ______ ______. a single parent cloning a number of a simple explanation

Presenter: So cloned animals come from one parent only. Hugh D: Precisely. Presenter: _____ _________ has cloning been so far? Hugh D: Well, as most people know, in 1997 scientists cloned __ _____ called Dolly. Since then, scientists have cloned animals such as ____ and ____. How successful a sheep catspigs

Presenter: You make cloning sound easy. Hugh D: Do I? I wish it was. If it was easy, I'd be a very rich man by now. Presenter: So what are the _________? Hugh D: Unfortunately, cloned animals get ill and die _____ ______. For example, Dolly the sheep died in She should have lived longer. Presenter: _____ do they get ill? Hugh D: We’ve got a few ideas but we don’t _____ __________ why yet. quite young difficulties Why really understand

Presenter: I see. Now obviously, Dr. Donaville, you believe that cloning will be _________ to human beings. Hugh D: Yes, I do. If I _____ _______ that, I’d be in a different job. Presenter: Many people believe that cloning is ______ ___ ______ _______. How do you answer them? beneficial wrong and against nature didn’t believe

Hugh D: I tell them that cloning is a way of ______ ______. Presenter: But cloning treats animals and people as things, as ________. Hugh D: ________! I don't think that's true at all. I don't think scientists treated Dolly the sheep as a product. She was a sheep! Nonsense helping nature products

Presenter: I'm not sure everyone believes that. Also, people ____ _____ ____ scientists will create thousands of copies of the same person. Hugh D: I agree, if that happened, it would be terrible. We ____ ____ to prevent that. Presenter: I'm glad you agree about that. But why do scientists want to clone humans? I can't see ____ ____ _______ for this. are afraid that need laws any good reasons

Hugh D: ___ ____ _______, there are very good reasons. For example, if a couple _____ ____ _______, then cloning can give them a child. And if a child dies, we could clone it. Presenter: Create an identical copy, you mean? I think that's a _______ ____. Hugh D: A clone can never be an identical copy of another person. It's not just your genes that create who you are. It's your family and society ___ ____. On the contrary can't have children terrible idea as well

Presenter: True. Hugh D: ___ _______, we could clone animals that are becoming extinct. Presenter: Yes, if we were able to do that, it would be wonderful. I can see there are _____ _________ both for and against cloning. To continue many arguments