Unit 4 Cloning and Ethics
What might happen if the following are cloned?
Einstein
Dinosaur
Einstein
Hitler
Napoleon
Ben Laden
Cheng Ji Si Han
Lead-in
The news that a sheep in Scotland has been successfully cloned 1) ____________,
What good would it be to clone humans? What would I do with a clone of myself?
Then 2) __________ that I could have my clone go into work for me while I went
out hiking,biking,skiing,etc.! I really could be in two places at once,
But wait a minute,If that’s what I would do with my clone,how do I know that I’m
not a clone myself? What if the 3) __________ had himself cloned and sent the
clone (that is,me) in to do his work for him?
This explains a lot,
— all those mysterious checks I find in my 4) _____________ every month (with my
signature) but don’t remember writing,
— why my wife doesn’t seem to notice when I’ve been out of town,
— all those traffic tickets I have to pay but swear I never received in the first
place,
— why my friends say things like,“I thought I saw you out skiing last week,” when
I know I was at work,
— why I keep getting fines for 5) _____________ at the library,when I only check
out CD’s,
— the 6) ____________________ to my credit card ( the one with my picture on
it ) from London,Paris,New York,.,
I can only hope the original me never gets sentenced to prison,
got me wondering
it hit me
original me
bank statement
overdue books
unexplained charges
What would you say to your clone if you
had one? Do you think you two would
always agree with each other,or would
you see each other as enemies?
Not Now,Dr,Miracle
Try to get the meaning of the following expressions before reading,
IVE treatment
create a stir
insult to human dignity
volunteered for experiments
pushing reproductive biology to the limits
line up to attack his cloning plan
using cloning to combat infertility
be stuck in the dark ages
at an unacceptable price
result in miscarriages or abortions
achieving immortality
taking one hell of a risk
试管授精
激起了争议
对人的尊严的侮辱
试验自愿者
把繁衍生物学推向极致
排起长队攻击他的克隆计划
利用克隆来解决不孕问题
处于极度困难时期
以一种不可接受的代价
导致流产或堕胎
达到永恒
极度冒险
What can you see about the passage to be read according to the words above？
Not Now,Dr,Miracle
Read through the text and fill out the following table with proper info,
Attitude Reasons Dr,
Antinori
Religiou
s
leaders
Author
Raelian
s
For
Against
Against
-Using cloning to combat infertility
- Cloning represents the only hope of some couples having
a child carrying their genes
- it is only a matter f time for people to accept it,
-the world will embrace the first cloned baby,
an insult of human dignity
To begin cloning people now is simply a waste of time,
money and energy before most basic questions have been
answered,
- the world will not embrace an unhealthy or deformed or
the sole survivor of hundreds of pregnancies
For cloning is the key to achieving immortality,
Further Reading
Go through the text again,and finish the
exercises 2 and exercises 3,
,
Ex,2 Answer the following questions with the information you
obtain from the passage,
1,Why is Antinori called Dr Miracle?
By practicing the most advanced reproductive biological
techniques to treat his patients,he has worked a lot of
miracles,Now working on cloning,he is challenging the
biological limits and striving for another miracle,
Reference
2,How do you understand the author’s statement that,Dr
Miracle and his colleagues are taking one hell of a risk”?
This sentence actually means that with so many social and
technical problems unsettled,the odds are against Antinori
and his colleagues,If they fail,people may lose their
confidence in cloning,and even science as a whole,which is
rather catastrophic,
Reference
3,With so many problems unsolved,should the technology of
cloning humans be prohibited by the government according
to the passage? Why?
No,The author thinks passing a ban on cloning humans will
just drive it underground rather than putting an end to it,
which is more dangerous,
Reference
4,What’s the author’s attitude toward cloning?
Reference
The author believes that cloning should be allowed in some
special cases as a fertility treatment but the science is not
ready for it and the research study should be regulated,
Vocabulary and Structure
I Have His Genes
But Not His Genius
I,Go through the text from paragraph one to
paragraph five
Differences
W.A,Mozart Cloned Mozart
Born
Similarities
Relationship
247 years ago in 2003
appearance,sharp nose,weak chin; same brain,his
heart,his DNA
father and son; mother and son; brothers; identical twins
Try to predict any other similarities and
differences between the two Mozarts,
Born
sponsor
Payment
Reasons
Results
Growth
Education
Interests
Career
Public
Reaction
With
Music
a software billionaire
$1 million each for every baby cloned from Mozart’s DNA
The billionaire was nuts about Mozart,
Four babies were born,Two survived,One
disappeared,the other adopted by a scientist,
The billionaire died,and the institute collapsed,
The mother tried to push little Mozart toward music,
He liked rock music and liked it loud,and then liked
beer and girls,
He had a decent job working in a frame shop,
Some reporters try to tracked him down,but failed
The media treated him as a joke which crushed him,
Try to finish the Requiem but failed,
Realized that he had Mozart’s gene not his genius,
Go through the rest of the text and finish the following table with
proper information,
After Reading
I,Go through the whole text in 3 minutes and try
to tell your partner the story of the cloned
Mozart,
II,Finish Exercise 10 on page 86,
III,Vocabulary and expressions
IV,Finish the exercises in the textbook,
What might happen if the following are cloned?
Einstein
Dinosaur
Einstein
Hitler
Napoleon
Ben Laden
Cheng Ji Si Han
Lead-in
The news that a sheep in Scotland has been successfully cloned 1) ____________,
What good would it be to clone humans? What would I do with a clone of myself?
Then 2) __________ that I could have my clone go into work for me while I went
out hiking,biking,skiing,etc.! I really could be in two places at once,
But wait a minute,If that’s what I would do with my clone,how do I know that I’m
not a clone myself? What if the 3) __________ had himself cloned and sent the
clone (that is,me) in to do his work for him?
This explains a lot,
— all those mysterious checks I find in my 4) _____________ every month (with my
signature) but don’t remember writing,
— why my wife doesn’t seem to notice when I’ve been out of town,
— all those traffic tickets I have to pay but swear I never received in the first
place,
— why my friends say things like,“I thought I saw you out skiing last week,” when
I know I was at work,
— why I keep getting fines for 5) _____________ at the library,when I only check
out CD’s,
— the 6) ____________________ to my credit card ( the one with my picture on
it ) from London,Paris,New York,.,
I can only hope the original me never gets sentenced to prison,
got me wondering
it hit me
original me
bank statement
overdue books
unexplained charges
What would you say to your clone if you
had one? Do you think you two would
always agree with each other,or would
you see each other as enemies?
Not Now,Dr,Miracle
Try to get the meaning of the following expressions before reading,
IVE treatment
create a stir
insult to human dignity
volunteered for experiments
pushing reproductive biology to the limits
line up to attack his cloning plan
using cloning to combat infertility
be stuck in the dark ages
at an unacceptable price
result in miscarriages or abortions
achieving immortality
taking one hell of a risk
试管授精
激起了争议
对人的尊严的侮辱
试验自愿者
把繁衍生物学推向极致
排起长队攻击他的克隆计划
利用克隆来解决不孕问题
处于极度困难时期
以一种不可接受的代价
导致流产或堕胎
达到永恒
极度冒险
What can you see about the passage to be read according to the words above？
Not Now,Dr,Miracle
Read through the text and fill out the following table with proper info,
Attitude Reasons Dr,
Antinori
Religiou
s
leaders
Author
Raelian
s
For
Against
Against
-Using cloning to combat infertility
- Cloning represents the only hope of some couples having
a child carrying their genes
- it is only a matter f time for people to accept it,
-the world will embrace the first cloned baby,
an insult of human dignity
To begin cloning people now is simply a waste of time,
money and energy before most basic questions have been
answered,
- the world will not embrace an unhealthy or deformed or
the sole survivor of hundreds of pregnancies
For cloning is the key to achieving immortality,
Further Reading
Go through the text again,and finish the
exercises 2 and exercises 3,
,
Ex,2 Answer the following questions with the information you
obtain from the passage,
1,Why is Antinori called Dr Miracle?
By practicing the most advanced reproductive biological
techniques to treat his patients,he has worked a lot of
miracles,Now working on cloning,he is challenging the
biological limits and striving for another miracle,
Reference
2,How do you understand the author’s statement that,Dr
Miracle and his colleagues are taking one hell of a risk”?
This sentence actually means that with so many social and
technical problems unsettled,the odds are against Antinori
and his colleagues,If they fail,people may lose their
confidence in cloning,and even science as a whole,which is
rather catastrophic,
Reference
3,With so many problems unsolved,should the technology of
cloning humans be prohibited by the government according
to the passage? Why?
No,The author thinks passing a ban on cloning humans will
just drive it underground rather than putting an end to it,
which is more dangerous,
Reference
4,What’s the author’s attitude toward cloning?
Reference
The author believes that cloning should be allowed in some
special cases as a fertility treatment but the science is not
ready for it and the research study should be regulated,
Vocabulary and Structure
I Have His Genes
But Not His Genius
I,Go through the text from paragraph one to
paragraph five
Differences
W.A,Mozart Cloned Mozart
Born
Similarities
Relationship
247 years ago in 2003
appearance,sharp nose,weak chin; same brain,his
heart,his DNA
father and son; mother and son; brothers; identical twins
Try to predict any other similarities and
differences between the two Mozarts,
Born
sponsor
Payment
Reasons
Results
Growth
Education
Interests
Career
Public
Reaction
With
Music
a software billionaire
$1 million each for every baby cloned from Mozart’s DNA
The billionaire was nuts about Mozart,
Four babies were born,Two survived,One
disappeared,the other adopted by a scientist,
The billionaire died,and the institute collapsed,
The mother tried to push little Mozart toward music,
He liked rock music and liked it loud,and then liked
beer and girls,
He had a decent job working in a frame shop,
Some reporters try to tracked him down,but failed
The media treated him as a joke which crushed him,
Try to finish the Requiem but failed,
Realized that he had Mozart’s gene not his genius,
Go through the rest of the text and finish the following table with
proper information,
After Reading
I,Go through the whole text in 3 minutes and try
to tell your partner the story of the cloned
Mozart,
II,Finish Exercise 10 on page 86,
III,Vocabulary and expressions
IV,Finish the exercises in the textbook,
