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选修八Unit 1 A land of diversity

Welcome to our village. I’d like to tell you _________ we fought against the flood last year. Last summer there was too ________ rain and a serious flood hit our village, flooding the fields and roads, _________ away many of our houses ________ even bringing danger to the people’s safety.

_______ the help of the PLA, we would not have been able to overcome the difficulties, win the battle _______ the terrible flood, and get ________ fairly good harvest last autumn. What moved us most is ________ the village head, Zhang Deming, let the flood flow into his fish-pond, preventing _______ from going into the village.

We all thought _________(high) of his devoted spirit in the interests of the whole village. We should learn from him.

Unit 2 Cloning

Cloning is a way of _________(make) an exact copy of another animal and plant. ________ has two major uses. One is _________ gardeners use it to produce commercial quantities of plants. The ________ is that it is valuable for research on new species and for medical research on animals.

________, the process of cloning is difficult to undertake.

Many attempts to clone mammals failed. The first successful clone, Dolly the sheep, made the whole ________(science) world follow its process, though it had _______ problems than the normal sheep. On the other hand, Dolly’s appearance _________(raise) a storm of abjections and had a great

impact _______ the media and public imagination. Different people have different opinions of it. However, scientists still wonder whether cloning will help _______ harm us and where it is leading us.

Unit 3 Inventors and inventions

__________ the writer called up her mother in the country on the phone, she learned that snakes came near their house and that the snakes seemed __________(make) their home near their house. The writer felt proud and considered __________ a chance for her to distinguish

__________by inventing something _________ would catch snakes but not harm them. She set about __________(research) the habits of snakes. She decided to cool them so that they could be ________(easy) caught. However, her first two plans were not successful. As a result, she had to attempt a

_________ time, which helped her fulfill her aim successfully. She was

_________ delighted that she was determined to send her _________(invent) to the patent office to get recognition for her successful idea.

Unit 4 Pygmalion

Eliza Doolittle was ________ unrefined, dirty flower girl with poor phonetics _________Professor Higgins was an expert in phonetics. One day they happened to meet each other while ________(hide) from the rain. When Eliza was talking with a gentleman, Higgins always watched her and took notes, ________ made her get worried, for she thought he was a