填空题
{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} This part consists of a short passage. In this passage,
there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each underlined sentence or part of a
sentence. You may have to change a word, add a word or just delete a word. If
you change a word, cross it out with a slash (—) and write the correct word near
it. If you add a word, write the missing word between the words (in brackets)
immediately before and after it. If you delete a word, cross it out with a slash
(—). Put your answers in the ANSWER SHEET.
(46){{U}}Clonaid, a company associated by a group that believes
extraterrestrials created mankind, announced Friday that it had produced the
first clone of a human being.{{/U}} According to the spokeswoman, it is a baby
girl who appears to have been born healthy.
(47) As we know,
{{U}}cattle, mice, sheep and other animals have been cloned in the past years with
mixing success.{{/U}} (48) {{U}}All cloned animals have displayed defects later in
life.{{/U}} (49) {{U}}Scientists fear same could happen with cloned humans.{{/U}} (50)
{{U}}The company Clonaid is viewed skeptical by most scientists, who doubt the
group's technical ability to clone a human being.{{/U}} (51) {{U}}But the Clonaid
spokeswoman said an dependent expert will confirm the baby's clone status
through DNA testing.{{/U}}
(52) {{U}}Clonaid is lead by Brigitte
Boisselier a former deputy director of research at the Air Liquide Group, a
French producer of industrial and medical gases.{{/U}} (53) {{U}}Clonaid is also
linked to a sect called the Raelians whose founder, Claude Vorihon, describes
himself for a prophet and calls himself Rael.{{/U}} (54) {{U}}The group believes
cloning could extend human life for hundred of years.{{/U}} In fact, Clonaid has
been racing the Italian fertility doctor Severion Antinori to produce the first
cloned baby. (55) {{U}}Antinori said in last month he expected one of his patients
to give birth to a cloned baby in January.{{/U}}