Monday, November 7

Good morning!

As you come in, here is your blog assignment:

Blog Title: Q2, Week 4 Vocabulary Definitions & Cloze Reading
Assignment:
*** Your vocabulary words this week are: context, equate, and evaluate.
*** Find the definitions for each word.
*** Complete the cloze reading activity. Read the passage and fill in the blanks.

Cloning became a hot topic when Dolly the Sheep was cloned from an identical sheep in 1997. Cloning basically 1) __________ to creating a genetic twin. There is no evidence that human cloning has occurred yet, but it is believed that scientists have the ability to do so. Most countries have 2) __________ the pros and cons of human cloning and limited or outlawed it. If you look at this in a different 3) __________, there are human clones among us right now. They are identical twins, created naturally, not in a lab.

Supporters of human cloning say that it could help couples who are struggling with conceiving a baby. More importantly, many people say that human cloning could be used to save lives by cloning a diseased liver or heart or to replace a body part like an arm. In this 4) __________, human cloning may not be such a bad thing.

Opponents of human cloning say that people are “playing God” and they
5) __________ that with going against many people’s religious beliefs. Some people fear that scientists could create “superhumans” that would be bred as super-soldiers or super-athletes which would make it impossible for non-cloned humans to compete with them.