Book 8 Unit 2 Cloning

  d. it proves very interesting
3. which of the following is true? ____
b. mice were cloned in 1981.
b. dolly the sheep was the first cloned animal.
c. the name of the cloned cow is “bison”
d. china was successful in cloning mammals.
4. the reasons why a group of cloned animals all die of the same illness do
not include____.                                                         
a. they have the same arrangement of genes              
b. there isn’t enough diversity in the group for it to overcome illnesses
c. the illness is a new one
d. their arrangement of genes can not resist that new disease
5. we can infer from the text that____           
a. scientists are experimenting to clone dinosaurs
b. dinosaurs will never return to the earth
c. cloned animals will only live in the zoo
d. the dna of dinosaurs can only survive 10, 000 year
(answers: c a d c b)
ⅲ. language points
4. from time to time = occasionally, now and then有時, 間或, 偶爾,
5. in vain  [in'vein]徒然，白費，無效
day after day she waits   in  vain  for him to telephone her.
日復一日，她徒勞地等待他的電話。
they endeavoured to make her happy but  in  vain他們盡量使她快樂，卻徒勞無功。
all our work was  in  vain.
我們的工作全都白干了。
6. resist 
1) 抵抗
to resist or not to resist japan? 要不要抗日? 
2)抗(酸),耐(熱等)
this special coating is designed to  resist rust.
這一特別的涂層旨在抗銹。
a healthy body resists disease. 健康的身體能抵御疾病。
3) (常用于否定句)忍耐,忍住[+v-ing]
i couldn't  resist the temptation to tease ollie. 我忍不住要逗奧利玩
4. base on/upon 以……為基礎, 依據
 base sth. on/upon…
sth. is based on/upon…
單元詞組復習
翻譯詞組：
1，使沮喪                                  cast down              
2， 贊成，支持                             in favor of