第3册全新版大学英语综合教程Unit8课后答案

　　III. Usage

　　1)do you consider it any good continuing your investigations?

　　2)It is reported that two people were killed in the explosion

　　3)I owe it to you that I have been able to get back to my studies

　　4)It is no good bothering about such a trifle

　　5)It wont do you any good to hide your sickness for fear of treatment

　　6)We all think it a pity to give up the experiment half way

　　Comprehensive exercises

　　I.Cloze

　　1.text-related

　　1)issue 2)contenious 3)clones 4)potential 5)condemn

　　6)misconceptions 7)opponents 8)results from 9)come forward 10)donated

　　2.theme-related

　　1)prospect 2)intention 3)despite 4)developing 5)publish

　　6)condemned 7)among 8)standpoint 9)standard 10)rejection

　　II.Translation

　　1.1)Medical experts debated whether the cloning of human beings should be permitted and what its potential effects on society might be

　　2)eighty-five percent of the people in the local area in full-time employment ;only 3% describe themselves as unemployed

　　3). The departments concerned in China will speed up legislation to protect rights of migrant workers

　　4). In recent years, some psychologists have tried to explain intelligence from a biological standpoint

　　5). The global finanical crisis has had a huge impact on that country’s export industry. In no more than six months,many factories have closed down by necessity.

　　2. Dolly the sheep resulted from a cloning experiment by a group of Scottish scientists in 1997. A fierce debate on human cloning has ever since been going on. This co

　　ntentious issue has focused on ethical and social implications of the technology:what the technology might do to the very meaning of human reproduction,child rearing, individuality, etc.

　　The majority of scientists are adamantly opposed to reproductive cloning and support therapeutic cloning for treating diseases. The reason is that therapeutic cloning does not involve any type of relief of suffering in human beings. Scientists believe that with politics and monitoring in place to ensure that therapeutic cloning is used safely, we can all benefit from this procedure.

　　Text B

　　Comprehension check:

　　1. d 2, c 3,b 4, d 5, b 6, c

　　Translation :

　　1.时至今日，眼看着新一轮要求对克隆人全面禁止而非简单规范的呼声即将再起，我倒想说: “慢一点来。”

　　2就像禁止人工流产和婚外性行为一样，禁止克隆人肯定难以实施。

　　3.由于是人工生育而被认为缺乏道德，这样的苦境不是会糟糕得多吗?

　　4.因此，如果要禁止克隆人，其理由应比任何已经提出的更为有力才行。

　　Language practice

　　1. 1)c 2)h 3)g 4)e 5)a 6)b 7)d 8)f

　　2.1)artificial 2)labeled 3)objections 4)appealed to

　　5)reinforce 6)by virtue of 7)come to terms with 8)in essence