2009年6月英语六级考试快速阅读实战练习(2)

　　Some might think that cloning is playing God. However, can you really say that you know God's intentions? There is substantial disagreement as to what God’s will is. Armstrong wrote, anyone who has truly proved that God exists, that God isn't only Creator, but Life-giver, Designer, Sustainer, and Ruler over all his creation, knows that the human family began with one man, and that together with him a wife, miraculously created from his own body and as unique and original a creation as Adam himself, formed the first family. Though God's miraculous creation of Eve was far from cloning, it is interesting to note in passing that God's own Word says He used Adam's rib-physical bone and tissue - to create Eve?

　　Another argument against cloning is that it would only be available to the wealthy and, therefore, would increase social inequality. What else is new? This is the story of American health care. We need a better health care system, not a ban on new technologies. Hopefully our new president will help us with this problem as well.

　　The U.S. Federal Government should not deem human cloning and cloning research illegal. It may provide a way for completely sterile or homosexual individuals to reproduce, and will probably provide valuable basic research and possible spin-off technologies related to reproduction and development. Our society has respected general rights to control one’s body regarding reproduction, and finally prohibiting it would violate the fundamental freedom of scientific inquiring.

　　Will human cloning be done? Undoubtedly. The technique used in sheep cloning does not require a highly sophisticated laboratory. Since the United States government does not support research on human cloning, and the United Kingdom, France, and Germany have banned it, the research making cloning possible may take place in Asia, Eastern Europe, or the East. Much cloning may also take place in secret, and will occur regardless of United States policies. Approximately eighty percent of Americans feel that cloning is wrong. However, the vast majority of people, including those who rail against cloning research, owe their lives to previous medical discoveries. Don't let the forces of ignorance and fear turn us away from new types of research.

　　1. Cloning large mammals and life forms had been practiced for many years by the time Dolly was cloned.

　　2. The tomb of Napoleon has already been broken into and samples of genes have been collected.

　　3. The introduction of human cloning may reduce a great amount of death of adult women.

　　4. In-vitro fertilization is much better than natural birth in terms of safety.

　　5. Identical twins can still have different personalities because they are brought up ________________.

　　6. The reason why in a family with a cloned child there is likely to be a good and loving relationship is the parents’ better understanding of _______________________.

　　7. Compared with cloning human and bringing them up as an army, it would be much cheaper to ______________________________.

　　8. Some worry that human cloning as a potential privilege for the rich might contribute to _____________.

　　9. The illegalization of human cloning by the government may erase the hope of people like _________________________.

　　10. Since human cloning can not be done in the U.S., the U.K., France and Germany, researchers can still conduct their researches in Asia, Eastern Europe, or the East, or in ___________.