牛津高中英語(yǔ)模塊5-Unit3-Reading

1、Unit 3The perfect copyLead-inReadingReading strategySkimmingLanguage pointsDiscussionScaningDetailed readingCheck previewing work:Answer the following questions.What is cloning?Cloning is producing an exact copy of a plant or animal using its cells. 2. What was the name of the first cloned mammal? 3

2、. Is Pauline Carter pro-or anti-cloning?Dolly Anti-cloning.返回目錄Go through the reading strategy, and find out how to work out the meaning of these scientific terms.Step 1Begin by reading the first and last paragraphs for an idea of what the article is about.Reading strategyStep 2Step 3Circle any word

3、s you do not know. Question things that you do not understand or that do not appear to make sense.Read through the article a few times, and make sense of the scientific terms upon further readings.返回目錄Read through the passage and find out the main idea. The reading passage is about how cloning is be

4、ing researched and the different attitudes towards it. Skimming返回目錄Understanding scientific termsCircle the unfamiliar words or things you do not understand while second reading.Scaningclone (line 1) embryo (line 2)tissue (line 4)organ (line 4)cell (line 9)克隆胚胎組織器官細(xì)胞返回目錄Read the article carefully, a

5、nd finish the following exercises: Detailed reading Decide whether the following are true or false. 1. People all over the world are happy about the idea of cloning human beings. 2. Dolly, the first cloned mammal, is exactly the same as other sheep. 3. According to the article, the scientist who cre

6、ated Dolly does not agree with cloning human beings.F F T4. Cloning can be used to cure diseases because it can produce new tissues and organs.5. Cloning human being6s is not legal in many countries, so no scientists want to clone human beings. 6. Both Colin Jake and Pauline Carter are against cloni

7、ng humans.F F TMatch the words with their correct meanings.1. completely change something so that it is better 2. become the parents of somebody elses child tissue intention anxiety adopt consequence harvest transformtransformadopt4. The material that makes up different parts of the body5. cut and g

8、ather a crop 6. the state of feeling nervous and worried 7. what someone plans to do3. The result of something that has happenedanxietyconsequencestissueharvestintentionWhat are the different attitudes towards the success of cloning a human embryo? Valuable tissues and organs can be produced and be

9、used to save human lives.Human beings may be on the way to producing a real-life monster.Cloning human embryos with the intention to destroy them shows no respect for human life.Find the reasons why people are for or against human cloning in the article and letters. Write them in the table below.For

10、 human cloningAgainst human cloning1. produce valuable tissues and organs that could be used to save human lives1. human life becomes like a crop to be harvested or a product for sale2. 2. 3. 3. 4. 5. help those who are unable to have childrenhelp those who want to clone their dead childrenproduce a

11、 real-life Franksteins monsterlead to more diseases in the animal worldshows no respect for human lifeshould be having fewer babies in order to reduce Earths population, not cloning more返回目錄DiscussionDo you think there should be laws to prohibit human cloning? Why or why not?Group AGroup BThere shou

12、ld , forreasons: 2. 3. There shouldnt, forreasons: 2. 3. 返回目錄1. On the other hand, many people, including some scientists, disagree and are afraid that, if mankind toys with nature in this way, we may be on our way to producing a real-life Frankensteins monster.Language points另一方面, 包括一些科學(xué)家在內(nèi)的很多人則持不同

13、意見(jiàn), 他們擔(dān)心如果人們?nèi)绱藨蚺匀? 我們可能將制造出一個(gè)現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中的弗蘭肯斯坦怪物。 on (the) one hand, on the other hand 一方面，另一方面 如：On the one hand, rapid development of the economy will improve the living conditions of the people. On the other hand it will speed up environmental destruction. 一方面經(jīng)濟(jì)的迅速發(fā)展會(huì)改善人們的生活狀況, 另一方面它會(huì)加速環(huán)境的破壞。 2. toy w

14、ith 玩弄，擺弄 He accused the young man of toying with his daughters feelings. 他指責(zé)那個(gè)年輕人玩弄他女兒的感情。 She just toyed with her food, as she wasnt really hungry. 她只是把食物擺弄著玩兒，因?yàn)樗⒉火I。3. clone vt./ n.克隆The sheep Dolly was cloned from adult cells.It was Ian Wilmut who cloned the sheep Dolly.Cloning human beings has

15、 caused ethical problems.This computer is just an IBM clone.名詞: 仿制品4. I dont want to adopt someone elses child if I had the chance, I would have a cloned baby right now. 我不想領(lǐng)養(yǎng)別人的孩子 如果我有這 么一個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)，我會(huì)立即要一個(gè)克隆嬰 兒。 adopt “ 收養(yǎng)，領(lǐng)養(yǎng)”。 如： He adopted the orphan. 他收養(yǎng)了那孤兒。 此外，adopt還有 “采納，采用”的意 思。如： Can a school ado

16、pt the policy prohibiting the use of mobile phones on campus? 學(xué)校能采納禁止在學(xué)校 使用手機(jī)的政策嗎?adopt a child領(lǐng)養(yǎng)孩子采用新技術(shù)adopt a new technique采納意見(jiàn)adopt an idea/ opinionThere are many English words _ from foreign countries.adoptedOn the one hand, some scientists point out that if you clone an embryo, you can produce

17、valuable human tissues such as bone or lung tissue that could be used to save human lives. (P42) 一方面，一些科學(xué)家指出如果克隆人類(lèi)胚胎，你就可以制造出寶貴的人體組織如骨組織或肺組織他可以用來(lái)拯救人類(lèi)的生命。長(zhǎng)難句分析： 句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析：本句是個(gè)主從復(fù)合句，point out是謂語(yǔ)，在其后that引導(dǎo)的賓語(yǔ)從句中，if you clone an embryo是條件狀語(yǔ)從句，兩個(gè)破折號(hào)中間的such as bone or lung tissue是插入語(yǔ)， that could be used to sa

18、ve human lives是定語(yǔ)從句，修飾先行詞human tissues 。2. On the other hand, many people, including some scientists, disagree and are afraid that， if mankind toys with nature in this way, we may be on our way to producing a real-life Frankensteins monster. (P42)分析 1） 句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析：句子主干為many people . disagree and are afra

19、id .。 that引導(dǎo)的從句作 afraid的賓語(yǔ)，including some scientists是介詞短語(yǔ)作定語(yǔ)，修飾many people；在賓語(yǔ)從句中又有一個(gè)if引導(dǎo)的條件狀語(yǔ)從句。整個(gè)句子的意思為：另一方面，包括一些科學(xué)家在內(nèi)的許多人則持不同意見(jiàn)，他們擔(dān)心如果人類(lèi)用這種方式戲弄自然，可能制造一個(gè)現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中的弗蘭肯斯坦怪物。2） 語(yǔ)言知識(shí)分析：on the other hand意為“另一方面”，常與on the one hand連用，但有時(shí)也單獨(dú)使用。this way既可作副詞，直接作狀語(yǔ)，意為“如此，這樣”；又可作名詞，作介詞in的賓語(yǔ)，意為“用這種方法”。on ones way to 中的to 是介詞，后面接名詞或V-ing形式作賓語(yǔ)。3. Instead, he thinks research efforts should concentrate on creating new tissues and organs that can be used to cure diseases like cancer. (P42) 分析 1） 句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析： he thinks是整個(gè)句子的主謂部分，后面是省略了that的賓語(yǔ)從句