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2021-22学年度第5期总第843期 (6版)

                        Cloning Camels       

                           

I. Skimming and summarize the main idea of the text.

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II. Read for details  

1. What can camels be used for in the United Arab Emirates?

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2. Why are camels cloned there?

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3. How are these camels priced?

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4. What concerns come with cloning animals?

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III. Language study

Can you paraphrase these sentences?

1. We have so much demand for cloning camels that we are not able to keep up.

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2. From the minute Injaz was born, there was no going back.

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Find useful words and expressions in the text according to their Chinese meanings.

赋有（能力等）

求助

最受欢迎的订单

驱动因素

平均

高产奶量的动物

伴随……发生

以失败告终

 

 

 

 

 

 

参考答案：

I. Camels, ships of the desert, are now racing champions, high milk-producing animals and winners of beauty contests with the help of reproductive biotechnology in the United Arab Emirates, which causes concerns.

 

II.

1. Besides a means of transportation, camels there are also beauty pageant contestants. They also produce milk.

 

2. According to the text, we can see two reasons. The first reason is that camels are beauty pageant contestants but not all of them meet the strict criteria. The other reason is that many customers want to reproduce camels that produce large amounts of milk.

 

3. The price of a camel is decided by its beauty, health and how well-known the breed is.

 

4. Continued use of cloning technology could result in extinction of species via “genetic bottleneck”.

What's more, cloning is costly and hard to get right.

 

III.

1. We are unable to keep up with the amount of cloned camels requested.

2. After the first cloned camel was born, nothing could be done to stop the popularity of cloning camels.

 

be blessed with                赋有（能力等）

turn to                       求助

the most popular order           最受欢迎的订单

driver                        驱动因素

an average of                  平均

high milk-producing animals      高产奶量的动物

come with                     伴随……发生

end in failure                  以失败告终

 

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