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第2题（短文选词）Unit2when I talked to my daughter just before her leaving for college,she gave one of her looks and answered with the voice filled with annoyance.Her face,once so open and trusting,was closed to me.I racked my brains to say something meaningful and warm and appeared enthusiastic about her future,but the mad look on her face suggested that she might slug me.Somehow in the past we had always found some way to connect.When a toddler,in the day-care center she would nurse,our eyes locked together,reconnecting with each other.In the middle school,When most parents floundered and lamented the estrangement with their adolescent daughters,I hit upon a solution:rescue raids.I showed up occasionlly in her school and sign her out of class to do something amussing,which brought us lots of good memories.I had a romanticized version of parting in mind.I wanted smiles through tears,and bitter sweet moments of reminiscence.But she turned down every invitation I extended.Just as a popular saying goes.''the tighter your bond with your child,the greater his need to break away and to establish his own identity in the world.''Sometimes I couldn't help snapping at her.''Talk to me or you're grounded.''Late one night she came to me with a pamphlet of tips for parents from her college.It me aware that her behavior I had disapproved of was quite normal,and that this was a natural time of transition.Then she buried her head in my shoulder.I stroked her hair lightly,afraid she'd bold.We embraced each other for long moments, swaying, reconnecting.Unit3I embarked on a self-driving tour through New Zealand for my honeymoon. At first I was apprehensive about a travel in an alien land without joining a package tour. However, the fear and anxiety were soon dissolve by marvelous scenery as well as the kindness and warmth of New Zealanders.New Zealand is a nature lover's paradise. You don't contrived amusement parks or fenced-off scenic areas. All you have to do is take a stroll and you can breathe, touch and see the beauty of this country. No skyscrapers blocking the sight, you can see the breath-taking scenery all around. Secluded inlets, rugged snow-capped mountains, wild coast and picturesque farming plainsconstituted something like a fairyland, I was exposed to a wild and pristine picture as if heaven had come true. Photos taken there allow us to relish our memories of New Zealand even till today.What else impresses me most is the efficient service system. You can make reservations for a car, tours and accommodation through the Internet and return the car very conveniently. There are local Visitor Information Centers in most areas, where brochures of local events and entertainment, bulletins of attractions, souvenirs, etc. are available. Identified by the distinctive logos, they are easy to recognize.Pure-hearted New Zealanders also often flash into our mind. One day two bicycle-riding guys volunteered to help us fix the engine that suddenly stalled half way to a place of historic interest; another time When we lost the key to our car and got into Panic, at the lost-and-found the policeman helped us to retrieve It immediately.Unit5By the late 19 century. American society had begun to be fundamentally restructured.Prices for agricultural commodities began to rise, lessening the rural economic discontent and nushering in golden age of agriculture.Rural outmigration which was prevalent in Western countries took on special significance in America. Some Americans feared that the influx of numerous Europeans would dilute the “nati ve stock” even further if the countryside was depopulated. Apprehensive about shortage of natural resources, some country-lifers actively engaged in the new conservation movement, coupled with the country life movement to form Progressivism that was directed primarily at reform.The first “back-to-the Land” movement took place in this period, briefly flourishing until running out of steam in the early 1910s. Social science survey work was launched on a largescare so that its main practitioners bolstered their previously fragile position in academia.However, there was much talk but less action during the country life movement.Country-lifers fell into three groups. The first group were so-called “urban agrarians”who advocate the “agrarian myth” of the farmer as the bulwark of republican moral virtues,the second group consist of social scientists who were more concerned about the putative effects of the rural degeneration on the Nation and its food supply. To counteract the growing rigidity, narrowness and anarchy of rural life, they contemplated ways to rehabilitate rural institutions. The third group were more economically hard-minded, eschewing talk of traditional rural values and institutionalreform for exhortations that farmers must act like businessmen. They were in tune with the economic changes transforming agriculture and had the biggest impact in the long run.Unit6Cloning can be applied to create an organism similar to the original by replicating its DNA.Scientists extracted a mammary cell from a ewe, inoculated it into an egg and had it grow into an embryo. Then they transplanted it into a ewe which finally gave birth to Dolly.Cloning creates a bright prospect for medical world. It may help people who suffer from infertility. It may benefit ecological system by protecting the endangered species or even bringing back the extinct ones.With every blessing comes a curse. Mutation may make the clone disease prone or grotesque in appearance. Some villains would be cloned who would disrupt peace and order or even unleash hell on human beings again. Even if a perfect being would be cloned, there would still be a problem. Those normally born beings would develop an inferiority complex and find difficult to match the perfect clones.Many religious and political views lock their horns with the medical group’s about the pros and cons of cloning. Cloning may be a boon or a bane to human beings. Whatever it may be, only the will tell.。