素能提升演练(三十七) 选修8 Unit 2 Ⅰ. 单词拼写 1. People _____(崇拜)him for his noble character. 2. The way my brother talked to mother _____(打扰)me. 3. We could _____(从事)the work for the time being. 4. She wanted to cut down the hedge，but her neighbour _____(反对). 5. The novel took a year to write _____(总共)，from start to finish. 6. I must insist on your giving me a _____(坦率的)answer. 7. You’ve had a great _____(突破)to get better understanding of it. 8. It is _____(禁止)to bathe in this area, for the water is deep and swift. 9. They set down to _____(积累) a huge mass of data before the research started. 10. The only _____(缺点) of the plan is that it costs too much. Ⅱ. 完成句子 1. Not until she had no more excuse _____. (undertake) 直到她再找不到借口，她才答应承担这项任务。 2. _____ was the result of the experiment. (cast) 让他沮丧的是实验结果。 3. I know nothing about her lost watch. Therefore I really _____. (object) 我对她丢失的表一无所知，因此我真的反对被指控盗窃。 4. The fact that they _____ our plan delighted us all. (favor) 他们赞成我们的计划，这一事实使我们感到高兴。 5. What delighted us was that he _____ through his continuous efforts. (obtain) 使我们高兴的是，他通过自己不懈的努力获得了奖学金。 6. He _____ in the following ten years. (pay) 他在接下来的10年中还清了所有的债务。 7. I _____ that I went through the hard time after I lost my job. Everything couldn’t have been going so smoothly without them. (owe) 我感谢我父母，使我走过了我失业后的那段困难期。如果没有他们，所有的事情都不可能进展得那样顺利。 8. The law _____ in public buildings. (forbid) 法律禁止在公共场所吸烟。 9. Because of the timely first aid, the girl who stopped breathing _____ _____. (bring) 由于及时的急救，那个停止呼吸的女孩又活过来了。 10. While I agree with most of what you said, I don’t agree with your viewpoint _____. (failure) 尽管我同意你说的大部分内容，但我不同意你认为实验失败了的观点。 Ⅲ. 阅读理解 There are many ways in which human cloning is expected to benefit mankind. Below is a list that is far from complete. Dr. Richard Seed, one of the leading proponents (支持者) of human cloning technology, suggests that it may someday be possible to reverse the aging process because of what we learn from cloning. Scientists believe that they may be able to treat heart attack victims by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that have been damaged. Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States and several other industrialized countries. There has been a breakthrough with human stem cells. Embryonic (胚胎的) stem cells can be grown to produce organs to repair or replace damaged ones. Skin for burn victims, brain cells for the brain damaged, hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys could be produced. By combining this technology with human cloning technology it may be possible to produce needed organs for suffering people that will be free of rejection by their immune systems. Conditions such as Alzheimer’s ... ...
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