COLLEGE ENGLISH TEST
— Band Six —
(6 TSH 2)
试 卷
注 意 事 项
一、 将自己的校名、 姓名、 准考证号写在答题卡上， 将本试卷代号(A、 B卷)划在答题卡上。
二、 试卷和答题卡均不得带出考场。考试结束， 监考员收卷后考生才可离开。
三、 仔细读懂题目的说明。
四、 多项选择题的答案一定要划在答题卡上， 凡是写在试卷上的答案一律无效。每题只能选一个答案; 如多选， 则该题无分。选定答案后， 用铅笔在相应字母的中部划一条横线。正确方法是： [A] [B] [C] [D]
五、 如果要改动答案， 必须先用橡皮擦净原来选定的答案， 然后再按上面的规定重新答题。
六、 试题的第四部分改错(Error Correction)和第五部分作文(Writing)印刷在答题卡上， 请用黑色字迹签字笔在答题卡上作答。
七、 在90分钟内做完试题的第一至第四部分。90分钟后， 监考员收取试卷， 然后考生再做第五部分作文题， 答题时间为30分钟。全部考试时间为120分钟， 不得拖延时间。
八、 在考试过程中要注意对自己的答案保密。若被他人抄袭， 一经发现， 后果自负。
新东方全国大学英语四、 六级考试研究委员会
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
注意： 此部分试题在答题卡1上。
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Studying Abroad. You should write at least 150 words based on the chart and outline given below:
1. 近几年来选择出国留学的人越来越多， 理由是……
2. 也有人持不同意见， ……
3. 我的看法和打算
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(15 minutes)
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.
The world was stunned by the news in the summer of 1995, when a British embryologist named Ian Wilmut, and his research team, successfully cloned Dolly the sheep using the technique of nucleartransfer. Replacing the DNA of one sheep’s egg with the DNA of another sheep’s the team created Dolly. Plants and lower forms of animal life have been successfully cloned for many years, but before Wilmut’s announcement, it had been thought by many to be unlikely that such a procedure could be performed on larger mammals and life forms. The world media was immediately filled with heated discussions about the ethical implications of cloning.
Some of the most powerful people in the world have felt compelled to act against this threat. President Clinton swiftly imposed a ban on federal funding for human-cloning research. Bills were put in the works in both houses of Congress to outlaw human cloning because it was deemed as a fundamentally evil thing that must be stopped. But what, exactly, is bad about it? From an ethical point of view, it is difficult to see exactly what is wrong with cloning human beings. The people who are afraid of cloning tend to assume that someone would, for example, break into Napoleon’s Tomb, steal some DNA and make a bunch of emperors. In reality, infertile people who use donated sperm, eggs, or embryos would probably use cloning. Do the potential harms outweigh the benefits of cloning? From what we know now, they don’t. Therefore, we should not rush placing a ban on a potentially useful method of helping infertile, genetically at-risk, homosexual, or single people to become parents.
Do human beings have a right to reproduce? No one has the moralright to tell another person that they should not be able to have children, and I don’t see why Bill Clinton has that right either. If humans have a right to reproduce, what right does society have to limit the means? Essentially all reproduction done these days is with medical help at delivery, and even before. Truly natural human reproduction would make pregnancy-related death the number one killer of adult women.
Some forms of medical help are more invasive than others. With in-vitro fertilization, the sperm and egg are combined in a lab and surgically implanted in the womb. Less than two decades ago, a similar concern was raised over the ethical issues involving “test-tube babies”. Today, nearly 30,000 such babies have been born in the United States alone. This miracle has made many parents happy. So what principle says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is acceptable, but not another?
Nature clones people all the time. Approximatelyone in 1000 births is an identical twin. However, despite how many or how few individual characteristics twins have in common, they are still different people. They have their own identities, their own thoughts, and their own rights. They enter different occupations, get different diseases, and have different experiences with marriage, alcohol, community leadership, etc. Twins have different personalities as would cloned individuals. Even if someone cloned several Napoleons, each would be different and even more unique than twins; the cloned child would be raised in a different setting. Therefore, cloning does not rob individuals of their personality.
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