I’msuremanyofyouhaveseenStarWarsJurassicParkMultiplicityormanyoftheothermoviesthatdescribecloning.Mostofwhatyouseeinthesemoviesisfalse.Whatyoudon’tknowisthatcloningcouldbedangeroustothecloneandtooursocietyasawhole.Ithinkhumancloningiswrongmainlyforfourreasons.

Whataboutidentity?Humansarepromisedtherighttotheirownpersonalities.Whatwouldhappenifweignorethoserightsbygivingthemsomeoneelse’sgeneticidentity?TrueCloningmaypreventpeoplefrompossessingtheiridentities.

Alsotheseisalargepowerstrugglehere.Cloningmeansadegreeofpowerandcontrolsoveranotherperson’sphysicalidentityandthatignorestheirrightsandtheironlypersonalities.Thepersondoingthecloningwouldhavemorepowerthananyparentwouldhave.

Cloningwouldalsodealwithkillingembryos(胚胎).YoumightnothaveknownbutDollythesheepthatwasclonedin1996wasoneofover200sheepembryosandherswastheonlyembryothatsurvived.Therestdiedorwerethrownaway.Imagineifthefailureratewasthathighwhenwestartedtoclonehumans.cloningmeansrunningtheriskofwastingtoomucheffort

Cloningsomeoneatthispresenttimewouldbeextremelydangeroustothebirthmotherandtheclone.Instudiesdoneoncows4outof12birthmothersdied.ThereisaveryhighfailureratewhichisshowninthecloningofDolly.Evenifyouhadafewgoodembryosfailureshavebeennoticeableinanimaltests.

Soshouldweworkaheadintheworldofcloning?Isayno.therisksaregreaterthanthebenefits.It’sdangeroustothecloneandtothebirthmother.Wewouldbekillinghumanlivesintheprocess.Itwouldalsobeaviolation(侵害)oftheclone’srighttoitsowngeneticidentityandpersonality.

【小题1】Theauthorthinkshumancloningiswrongmainlyfor______reasons.

A．4B．3C．2D．5【小题2】Accordingtothearticlewhatistheauthor’sopinionaboutidentity?A．Cloningitselfgivesparentsgreatpoweroveridentity.B．People’sidentityiscompletelydeterminedbytheirgenes.C．Governmenthastherightstoconfirmpeople’sidentities.D．Cloningmaypre