郇沭南
江苏省沭阳高级中学
Lead-in
Enjoy a short video and answer 2
questions.
1. Why are they cloned?
2. If you have a clone of yourself
one day, will you kill him or her?
Fast reading
Read the text quickly and match
the two parts .
1
The first cloned animal was Dolly.
2
Ian Wilmut is shocked about some
scientists considering cloning humans
Para
Para
3
Para
4
An announcement about cloning human
embryos caused much debate.
Para
Chinese scientists continue to research
ways cloning can benefit mankind.
5
A woman wants to have a cloned baby.
Para
6
Para
Cloning human embryos is illegal in
many countries, but some scientists
still want to clone human beings.
Detailed reading
Read the text carefully and get some
detailed information.
Para.1
different attitudes towards the success of
cloning a human embryo
valuable tissues can be
On the one hand________________________
produced to save human lives)
______________________________________
On the other hand ______________________
mankind may be on the
____________________________________
way to producing a real-life
____________________________________
Frankenstein’s monster
Frankenstein’s monster
 Frankenstein
is the
character of a science
fiction written by Mary
Shelly.
 If
we call somebody
Frankenstein nowadays,
we mean that he is
destroyed by
something he has
created.
Para.2
the world’s first cloned
mammal .
created in early 1996.
died in 2003 at a
younger age than
________.
normal
Why were many people worried
about the birth of Dolly?
 Why
were many people worried
about the birth of Dolly?
Cloning would lead to more diseases
in the animal world.
Para.3-6
Read the part and fill in the
form.
Ian
Wilmut
He never (1) intends
______ to create copies of
humans. Instead, he thinks research efforts
should concentrate on (2) curing
______ diseases.
Faye
Unable to have a baby, she is (4)
(3) _______
Wilson __________ to have a child that is genetically
anxious
related to her.
Severin He wants to be the first to clone a human being.
o
Antinori
Chines They have focused their efforts on cloning
e
animals . China has achieved great (5)
scientis
successin producing clones of cows and
_______
ts
goats, and continues to research ways cloning
can be (6) beneficial
________ to mankind.
Reading strategy
While coming across difficult or unfamiliar
words in a new article, we may take the
following steps.
Ste
p
1
Ste
p
2
Ste
p
3
Begin by reading the first and last paragraphs
for an idea of what the article is about.
.
Scan
the body. Circle any words you do not
know. Question things you do not understand
or that do not appear to make sense.
Read through the article a few times, and
make sense of the scientific terms upon
further readings.
The passage is mainly about_______.
A. what cloning is
B. the advantages of cloning
C. arguments about cloning human
embryos
D. the disadvantages of cloning
Reading
This passage is most probably taken
from ______________.
a geography
textbook
a guidebook
A B
C D
a newspaper
report
a science
fiction
Read the two letters and fill in the blanks.
against
Pauline Carter is _______human
cloning . He
holds his view because if people toy with nature,
they will have to deal with theconsequences
___________. What
is more, the human race is__________
using up the Earth’s
natural wealth so people need fewer babies, not
cloning more.
_______
However, Coline Jake is in_________
agreementwith
human cloning. It’s not only because scientists
have been challenging
__________ moral ideas for centuries
but also because her daughter died of
____________so
heart failure she wants to clone her to be
with her again.
Competition
Find the reasons why people are for
or against human cloning in the article
and letters. Write them in the table
below.
?
Competition
For human cloning
Against human cloning
1. produce valuable tissues
and organs that can be
used to save human lives
2. help those who are
unable to have children
1. human life becomes like a crop
to be harvested or a product for
sale
2. might produce a real-life
Frankstein’s monster
3. help those who want to
clone their dead children
3. would lead to more diseases in
the animal world
4. shows no respect for human life
5.should be having fewer babies in
order to reduce the Earth’s
population, not cloning more
What’s your attitudes to human
cloning?
On my personal note, I firmly support
the view that cloning is beneficial in the
following two reasons. On the one
hand,________. On the other hand,______.
As far as I’m concerned, human cloning
will have some bad effects . The reasons are
as follows. First of all,_____. What’s more,
________. Last but not least,________.
Summary
There is no forbidden field in science, bu
we must make sure the technology unde
control.
科学无禁区，技术应节制
writing
Recently, our class has held a heated discussion about
whether scientists should clone human beings. Some
students say_______. They hold their view because______.
What is more, ________.
While others think that______ in the following three
reasons. First of all, ________ . In addition, ________.
Last but not least, ________ .
On a personal note, I am in complete agreement with
the idea that _____. It’s not only because_________ but
also because__________.