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1 EEft+lllEilmf,tl Read the definition and think of
She is thought to have become especialty attached
arguments for and against cloning.
to it after the pit butI saved her Iife when another dog
attacked her.
el.one /kleon; NAffE kloun/ n ou n, verb
a noun 1 rbiologv'1 a planI or an animal rhat is produced The latter achieved notoriety when his wett-publicised
naturally or artificially from the cells of another plant or
animal and is therefore exactly the same as it breal<throughs in cloning human stem cetts were
discovered to be fake.
: verb [v'r I 1 ro produce an exact copy o[ an animal or a
plant ftom its cells: A team {aom the UK were the first to lncreasing demand means the cost for ctoning a dog
successfulty clane an druimdl o Dolly, the claned. sheep
may come down to less than $f O,OOO.
The dog, named Booger, died a year and a half ago but
Look quickty through the text in the Reading exam tash
his owner l<ept part of the dog's ear in cold storage.
ignoring the gaps. What two arguments in favour of cloning Neverthetess, some people are worried that human
are implied by the text? Do you agree with them? ctoning is an inevitabte development.
ln this case, celts have been extracted from Booger's
Do the Reading exam task.
ear tissue and inserted into the eggs of living dogs.
Look at the photo of Frankenstein below. Discuss the questions.
Read the text carefu[[y and decide which sentence (A-F)
1 What do you know about the story?
best fits each gap (1-5). There is one sentence that you
2 How does it portray science and scientists?
do not need.
$r5o,ooo for a pet dog, Do the Use of English exam task.
just [ike your last one
Complete the text. Write one word only in each gap.
Snuppy: the first cloned dog in the wortd
Many people regard the
A Californian dog-lover has agreed to pay g150,000 possibitity of h uman ctones
to have her dead pit butt recreated in the wortd's first t horror and see
commercial pet cloning project. , I South Korean it as a sign that scientific
progress is spiralling
scientists wil[ now use the tissue to attempt to create an
exact replica ofthe pet. ' of control. Atthough
this initial revutsion is
RNL Bio, based in Seou[, said it is atready working on
understandable, it is
the order. The workwitt be carried out by a team of Seout 3-
perhaps taking things an extreme. After atl,
National University (SNU) scientists under the direction
human clones already exist in nature: they're called
of professor Lee Byeong-chun, a key member ofthe 4_though
identical twins, and some people find
research team headed by disgraced stem cetI scientist identical twins unnerving, few are actually disgusted by
Hwang Woo-suk. , I Sut the SNU team was successful the very idea of them.
in creating the wortd's first dog clone, an Afghan hound It's atl 5- easy to dismiss cloning 6_ the
named'Snuppy'. worl< of mad scientists trying to create Franl<enstein-like
7_
Bernann McKunney is the American woman who reatty monsters. This image has very little to with the
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misses her dead dog. , E Specific breeds of pit bult are truth. reaiity, the aim of scientists is to find
new ways to combat disease and repair the human
banned or restricted in severaI countries including the
body. Some scientists have suggested that by cloning
Ul(, New Zealand and Canada, but not in the USA. e_
our own cells, we coutd halt or maybe reverse
Cho Seong-ryul, RNL's marketing director, said the
the ageing process. The ultimate prize would be a l<ind
company's success rate for producing dogs by ctoning 10_
of immortality. that would be a good thing in
was high with around one out of every four surrogate practice is another question.
mother dogs producing cloned puppies. , ! fne
scientists and Mrs McKunney are hoping that at least
one of these willdevetop into a heatthy puppy. 6 Oo the Speaking exam task.
'lf successfu[, this wilt marl< the first time that a dog has
been ctoned in a commercial contract,' Cho said. 'But it
won't be the tast. Ctoning is fast becoming an industry. Read the fo[[owing statement. Do you agree or disagree
' E' RNL Bio plans eventually to focus on cloning not with it? Discuss the issue with your partner, responding
only pets, but also speciaI dogs tike those trained to to any counter-arguments they have.
sniff out bombs. The ctoning of humans should never be allowed.
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