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Listen and fill in the missing words. Presenter: Our topic for this week is ______. To discuss it, we have with us Dr Hugh Donaville, head of a company that has already cloned __ _______ __ animals. Hugh D: Good morning.

Presenter: Dr Donaville, could you begin with __ ______ __________ of cloning? Hugh D:

Certainly. Cloned animals are created in a laboratory. They take all their genes from __ ______ ______.

Presenter: So cloned animals come from one parent only.

Hugh D: Precisely.

Presenter: _____ _________ has cloning been so far?

Hugh D: Well, as most people know, in 1997 scientists cloned __ _____ called Dolly. Since then, scientists have cloned animals such as ____ and ____.

Presenter: You make cloning sound easy.

Hugh D: Do I? I wish it was. If it was easy, I’d be a very rich man by now.

Presenter: So what are the _________? Hugh D: Unfortunately, cloned animals get ill and die _____ ______. For example,

Dolly the sheep died in 2003. She should have lived longer. Presenter: _____ do they get ill? Hugh D:

We’ve got a few ideas but we don’t _____ __________ why yet.

Presenter: I see. Now obviously, Dr.

Donaville, you believe that cloning will be _________ to human beings.

Hugh D:

Yes, I do. If I _____ _______ that, I’d be in a different job.

Presenter: Many people believe that cloning is ______ ___ ______ _______. How do you answer them? Hugh D: I tell them that cloning is a wayof ______ ______. Presenter: But cloning treats animals and people as things, as ________.

Hugh D:

________! I don’t think that’s true at all. I don’t think scientists treated

Dolly the sheep as a product. She was a sheep!

Presenter: I’m not sure everyone believes that. Also, people ____ _____ ____ scientists will create thousands of copies of the same person.

Hugh D: I agree, if that happened, it would be terrible. We ____ ____ to prevent that.

Presenter: I’m glad you agree about that. But why do scientists want to clone humans? I can’t see ____ ____ _______ for this.

Hugh D: ___ ____ _______, there are very good reasons. For example, if a couple _____ ____ _______, then cloning can give them a child. And if a child dies, we could clone it.

Presenter:

Create an identical copy, you mean? I think that’s a _______ ____.

Hugh D: A clone can never be an identical copy of another person. It’s not just your genes that create who you are. It’s your family and society ___ ____.

Presenter: True.

Hugh D: ___ _______, we could clone animals that are becoming extinct.

Presenter: Yes, if we were able to do that, it would be wonderful. I can see there are _____ _________ both for and against cloning.