unit 8
section A
vocabulary
1.They were running through thickly forested country,and nervousness began to mount in the car.
2.Most animals,including fish,look for a mate which resembles their parents.
3.The implication in his article is that being a housewife is greatly inferior to every other occupation.
4.The high cost of equipment prohibits many people from taking up this sport.
5.The speech was a deliberate attempt to embarrass the government.
6.Whether he deserves what has happened to him is open to debate.
7.Broadly speaking,interpretaions can be classified into two group:judgments and opinions.
8.Today most people in charge of city planning observe fairly strict guidelines on new houses.
9.We are coming toward the conclusion of a transaction that will split the company in half.
10.The computer industry has generated hundreds of new jobs in the area.
1.The success he dreamed of is now within reach.
2.The studies show that many illnesses fall into the category of stress-related illnesses.
3.The job is great in terms of salary,but it has its disadvantages.
4.You can get around your parking problem by using my permit.
5.We have to follow his decisions regardless of whether he is right or wrong.
6.Dr.Radia Perlman is a software designer and network engineer,sometimes referred to as the “Mother of the Internet”.
7.” What if he doesn't come to the meeting?””We shall go ahead without him.”
8.What brought Mary Engelbreit to New York in the first place.
9.Five years ago,increasingly concerned about the environment,he decided to work directly for an environmental group.
10.The policemen found envelopes identical to those used to post the letters.
You have probably heard of Dolly.She is the world's first cloned sheep and quite famous.You would never know that she was such a famous animal just by looking at her,though.”She's about as unremarkable-looking as may sheep there ever was,”commented one scientist who tends to the famous sheep.
Now that Dolly has successfully been cloned,there are many scientists observing her every movement.Their hope is that they never detect anything remarkable with Dolly.One of the scientists humorously remarked,“It's quite a(n) boring job always sitting around hoping nothing will actually happen.”But that's what they have essentially done.They hope that any differences between Dolly and the sheep she was copied from are so minor that they go unnoticed.
“We don't want Dolly to live longer or jump higher.Some say that we are deliberately trying to create animals with remarkable qualities.This is not true.We simply are showing that we can make a(n) identical copy of the original safely and that the sheep is normal.”
Despite the protests of the scientists working on the project,the debate over whether cloning is safe goes on.The US congress organized a national commission to study the legal and noral implications of cloning.,Many would like to abolish all research on cloning.And while everyone argues,the scientists are simply continuing to watch Dolly.
1.那个提议听起来很诱人，但如果是个骗局怎么办？
It sounds like a good idea,but what if it's a trick?
2.这一地区的城镇因为地震遭受了很大的损失，受灾最严重的地方包括九江和瑞昌。
Cities and towns in this area suffered a lot from the earthquake with Jiujiang and Ruichang among the worst-hit.
3.他抱怨说，他们压根就不应该参与这件事。
He complained that they should not have got involved in it in the first place.
4.看在玛丽的份上，我可以把车借给你，以解决你的交通工具问题。
For Mary’s sake, I can lend you my car to get around your transport problem.
5.理论上说，克隆一个孩子以获取器官是可行的，但实际上这么做却可能对孩子的心理有害。
In theory it’s feasible to clone a child to harvest organs, but in practice it would be ps ychologically harmful to the child.
6.他以Braver为笔名发表了一篇文章，强调克隆动物的过程也同样适用于克隆人类这一观点。
He published an article under the name of Braver which stresses the idea that the pr ocess of cloning animals would work for humans as well.
Section B
1.At 16,I resigned myself to the fact that I'd never be a dancer.
2.He is charged with taking a car without the owner's consent.
3.The regulations governing the inquiry into aircraft accidents had been unchanged since 1969.
4.She must understand the consequences of her refusal to accept medical treatment.
5.Nuclear waste can cause serious damage to the environment if not disposed of properly.
6.Our range of herbal teas contains no preservatives,colorings or artificial flavorings.
7.Close collaboration between the Bank and the Fund is not merely desirable;it is essential.
8.All cells reproduce by splitting into two,both halves getting a full set of genes.
9.The officer involved was relieved of his duties because he had violated strict guidelines.
