3.The kitten in the picture is called Cc. Its name is from"Copycat"．Scientists in the USA created it with a cell taken from its mother, Rainbow. It was born in December 2002.

　　Ⅰ.Fastreading

　　1．Match the following paragraphs with their main ideas.

　　Para.1　A．The problems of Dolly the sheep.

　　Para.2　B．The two major uses of cloning.

　　Para.3　C．The attitudes towards Dolly's appearance.

　　Para.4　D．The definition of cloning.

　　Para.5　E．The effect of cloning in society.

　　答案：Paras. 1～5　DBACE

　　2．Read the text quickly and fill in the blanks.

　　The text is mainly about the (1)procedure of animal cloning and the life of Dolly the sheep as well as the reasons why cloning is still (2)controversial.

　　Ⅱ.Carefulreading

　　Read the text carefully and choose the best answer.

　　1．In Paragraph 2, by mentioning the procedure of cloning Dolly, the author aims to .

　　A．prove that cloning is very valuable

　　B．show that cloning is complicated

　　C．suggest that both plants and animals can be cloned

　　D．explain when, where and how to clone a sheep

　　2．According to the passage, we can infer that a cloned animal .

　　A．usually lives as long as the original one

　　B．usually lives longer than the original one

　　C．is usually as healthy as the original one

　　D．usually dies earlier than the original one

　　3．From the last paragraph we know that .

　　A．cloning will come to an end because of objections

　　B．cloned human beings will be produced in the near future

　　C．many countries will use cloning in a wise way

　　D．all the research into human cloning will be forbidden

　　4．What is the author's real attitude to human cloning?

　　A．Negative.　 B．Positive.

　　C．Neutral. D．Angry.

　　答案：1～4　BDCC

　　Ⅲ.Studyreading

　　Analyze the following difficult sentences in the text.

　　1．It also happens in animals when twins identical in sex and appearance are produced from the same original egg.

　　[句式分析]　when引导的是时间状语从句；identical in sex and appearance是形容词短语作定语，修饰twins；when引导的从句的主干是twins are produced。

[尝试翻译]　这种现象也发生在动物身上，从同一个原生卵子产生性别和相貌相同的双胞胎也是克隆。