【正文】 om the pany8. pessimistic《讀寫教程 III》: Ex. XVII, p. 2071. conquered2. equivalent3. excluded4. bore5. accused6. punctual7. creeping8. approximate《讀寫教程 III》: Ex. XVIII, p. 2071. As soon as he entered the office, the director asked his secretary if the general manager’s train was behind schedule2. Women are excluded from the temple.3. North Atlantic Treaty Organization is NATO for short.4. He has a lot in mon with his sister Kate.5. The use of typewriters in offices is dying out.6. The building where my department is located goes back to the 19th century.7. By far the most important issue for them is unemployment.8. Given his poor health, he’s done a good job.Unit 8Section A. Legal and Moral Implications of Cloning《讀寫教程Ⅲ》: Ex. Ⅱ, p. 2211. The world was amazed by the news at first, then worried about and puzzled over a long list of wild possibilities.2. One of the situations is that parents want to clone a child who can serve either as a transplant donor or as a substitute for the original. The second is that adults want to clone themselves for a variety of reasons.3. Because clones are only physically identical while twins share the same environment within the mother and are usually raised in the same family.4. The only possible major difference is bearing children, as scientists are not sure if Dolly will be able to have lambs.5. Because cloning would increase the chances for a tissue match from 25 percent to nearly 100 percent.6. If technology was improved, this could be realized.7. It might be proper to refer to them as “Most honored sir or madam”.8. The creation of a new and disrespected social class: the clones.《讀寫教程 Ⅲ》: Ex. Ⅲ, p. 2211. implication2. resembles3. breed4. prohibits5. draft6. confusion7. deliberate8. debate《讀寫教程 Ⅲ》: Ex. Ⅳ, 1. within reach of2. in the wake of3. in terms of4. get around5. regardless of6. refers to。 refers to7. parable to8. in the first place《讀寫教程 Ⅲ》: Ex. V, p. 2221. wonderful2. great3. peaceful4. attractive5. pleasant6. unique7. similar8. creative《讀寫教程 Ⅲ》: Ex. Ⅵ, 1. transposition2. transatlantic3. transmigrants4. transformed5. transnational6. transoceanic7. transshipped8. transported讀寫教程 Ⅲ》: Ex. Ⅶ, p. 2231. nonexistent2. nonstop3. nonart4. noncollege5. nonproductive6. nonprofit7. nonfiction8. nonviolent《讀寫教程 Ⅲ》: Ex. VIII, p. 2241. What if I say no2. What if they don’t know3. What if we can’t finish it on time4. What if this happened to us someday5. What if he has lied to us《讀寫教程 Ⅲ》: Ex. Ⅸ, p. 2241. The Bosnian peacetalks are resuming in Geneva today with the new proposals at the top of the agenda.2. All of Southern Africa is suffering from a severe drought with Mozambique and Zimbabwe among the worsehit countries.3. The Europe Summit in Paris is drawing to an end with USA in danger of being pletely isolated.4. With the King in prison, the chief mander came to power and ruled the country.5. With democracy itself under threat, the reforms deserve all the support they can get.《讀寫教程 Ⅲ》: Ex. Ⅹ, p. 2251. In some western countries there are parents who are ready to clone children with nonfatal transplants in mind.2. The book on cloning she asked for was not within my reach, so I referred her to the school library.3. For Mary’s sake, I can lend you my car to get around your transport problem.4. In the first place the couple didn’t want to clone a child, and in the second place they couldn’t afford to.5. In theory it’s possible to clone a child to harvest organs, but in practice it would be psychologically harmful to the child.6. He published an article under the name of “Braver” which stresses the idea that the process of cloning animals would work for humans as well.7. As the author of this article warns us, human cloning might be something that makes men sadder than happier.8. To some people, the question to clone or not to clone, in a sense, could be parable to the question to be or not to be.Unit 9Section A. Premarital Agreements《讀寫教程 Ⅲ》: Ex. II, p. 2491． First, a future husband wanted to be sure that he could keep his treasured icecream collection if his marriage failed. Second, a woman wanted to make clear who would walk the dog. Third, one man wanted to be entitled to a divorce if his future wife gained more than 15 pounds once she married him.2． A prenuptial agreement, or prenup, negotiated by lawyers and signed before a marriage, is mainly designed to deal with financial problems when divorce is insisted on by one party.3． Because more and more states began passing laws based either on “splitting evenly” or on “whatever a judge thinks is ‘fair’”.4． First, a wealthy man who has been stung once may want to avoid such future problems. Second, protecting children from a previous marriage is a strong reason.Third, when one future partner is extremely rich while the other is poor.5． First, any language mistakes in a prenup, even a misplaced preposition, can be disastrous. Second, a prenuptial agreement signed under pressure can cause problems. Third, there can be a dispute over premarital accords if a couple decides to divorce while living abroad, or when they have different passports.6． Prenuptial agreements are almost ignored by British courts because English law says that circumstances of a marria