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课文背诵,用所背段落的单词填空(共10小题;每小题1分,共10分)
California is the third largest state in the USA but has the largest population. It also has the (1)________ of being the most multicultural state in the USA, (2) ________ people from all over the world.
Although at present human egg cells and embryos needed for cloning research are difficult (3)________, newspapers wrote of evil leaders hoping to clone themselves to attain their ambitions. Religious leaders also (4)________. Governments became nervous and more conservative. Some began to reform their legal systems and forbade research into human cloning, but other countries like China and the UK, continued to accumulate evidence of the abundant medical aid that cloning could provide. However, scientists still wonder (5) ________ cloning will help or harm us and where it is leading us.
(6)________by my friends and relations, I decided to seize the opportunity to get recognition for my successful idea by sending my invention to the patent office. Only after you have had that recognition (7)________you say that you are (8)________an inventor.
Welcome to the Zhoukoudian caves here in China. It is (9)_________ to meet you students from England, who are interested in archeology. You must be aware that it’s here (10) ________ we found evidence of some of the earliest people who lived in this part of the world.