So let's look at one of the most—frequently-cited of cloning doomsday scenarios：Someone choosing to cIone Hitler．(Ever notice how by mentioning anything in the same breath as Hitler，you can usually score a cheap win in an argument against it?①)Well，if someone did clone Hitler，what would happen? First of all，if he wasn’t raised by German-speaking parents，he wouldn’t even speak German．If he wasn’t raised in a war-shattered country，it stands to reason his politics might be different．Maybe he’d still be an angry，excitable little dude，but one could reasonably expect a Hitler-clone raised by a wealthy Jewish family to be almost wholly unidentifiable from his genetic forebear．(And would you really recognize Hitler without the mustache?)
　　 But even cloning-critics admit，the vast majority of people with interest in“procreative clonin9”(cloning to make new people，versus cloning embryos for medical purposes)don’t want to create a Fourth Reich；they want to overcome their own infertility．But this motive still doesn’t pass muster with the critics．Human cloning is Wron9．The kind of“wrong with a capital W”that people use when they don’t have a logical leg to stand on，but feel very strongly anyway．。
　　 What is this debate really about?At its core，it’s just about people making people through man- made，not God-made tools．That’s really the only distinction．And with all due respect to the testes and ovaries out there，which have been performing admirably for cons，it’s really tough to imagine who stands to lose by adding another doohickey to our reproductive toolkit．④Are the cloning-critics afraid people will stop having sex?Unlikely．Sex is both more fun and less expensive．(Nine out of ten scientists agree!)
　　 So who is the anti—cloning crowd protecting?1 wish this was a rhetorical question，but I don’t know the answer．Is their protest really just general jitteriness that we’re treading on God’s territory?Isn’t it impressive enough that any two high school dropouts can use their God-given tools to do what it’s taken countless scientists huge expense and decades of research to accomplisho God’s resume has no competition．
　　 If there is a God up there，look at the facts：He gave us huge brains，endless curiosity,and underdeveloped senses of restraint．What did He expect?[381 words]
　　 1．The example of cloning Hitler is used to illustrate that______．
　　 A．anyone other than a demon such as Hitler can be cloned
　　 B．cloning is not so scary as someone might think
　　 C．Hitler had nothing to do with cloning
　　 D the Hitler-clone won’t resemble Hitler
　　 2．Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
　　 A．The anti-cloning crowd is protecting sex．
　　 B．Sex will never be replaced by clonin9．
　　 C．Cloning can help to overcome infertility．
　　 D．Human cloning violates God’s territory．
　　 3．Cloning-critics maintain that______．
　　 A．procreative cloning is unnecessary for human beings
　　 B．to overcome infertility is sound enough for cloning
　　 C．no human cloning should be allowed
　　 D．there will be no medical progress without human cloning
　　 4．According to this passage，______．
　　 A．only Go&made tools can be used to make people
　　 B．only man-made tools can be used to make people
　　 C．there exists an argument as to what tools should be used for human reproduction
　　 D．cloning-critics are against having sex
　　 5．It can be inferred from this passage that______．
　　 A．the author is fl clone-critic
　　 B．human cloning is against nature
　　 C．God’s territory should not be encroached
　　 D．natural reproduction will not be replaced by human cloning
　　 超纲词汇
　　 doohickey 玩意，
　　 doomsday n．世界末
　　 embryo胚胎，胎儿}初期的
　　 eon n．永世
　　 Jitteriness n．神经过敏
　　 mustache n．胡子
　　 Ovary n．卵巢
　　 pass muster v．及格，符合要求
　　 procreative 有生殖力的
　　 rhetorical 带修辞色彩的
　　 scenario n．剧情，情况，脚本
　　 toolkit n．工具箱来源:考试大-考研考试

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