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I know you are a famous scientist who has done great work on cloning (克隆) animals. Please excuse me
for writing to you, but I need your 1 . Let me explain.
I am a 58-year-old man. I"m very rich. I live in a large house. My wife died three years ago; we didn"t have
children.
So, am I 2 ? No, because Cindy is with me. Every night we eat dinner together and watch TV. Cindy sits
beside me 3 I feel very happy. I"m fascinated (着迷的) with her beautiful green eyes. She"s also very smart.
Sometimes she thinks only about herself. But that"s what I 4 about her. She is quite a beautiful Siamese cat.
There is no other cat like her in the whole world.
These days I worry about 5 Cindy. She is getting older and older. Cats don"t live 6 humans, of course,
so she will die before I do. I cannot imagine my life 7 Cindy.
Well, why not get another cat after Cindy dies? 8 ! No other cat can even replace (替代) her.
I have been thinking about this: Clone Cindy. Scientists are able to clone sheep and mice and other animals.
They should be able to clone cats without much 9 . Luckily, I am a rich man. I don"t care how much money I
will spend cloning Cindy. I think 10 to clone pets. It"s not cloning humans.
What do you think? Could you clone Cindy?
Sincerely
A rich man
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| One of the first ways to communicate over long distances was by a messenger, 1_____. At that time messen- gers had to spend a long time doing the job and sometimes they forgot the reply. The invention of writing helped them a lot. They are called postmen now. People around the world developed many different ways to send messages: blowing into seashells, using smoke from fires, even throwing bottles with messages in them into the sea. 2_____. Soldiers used to write messages and fix them to the leg of the pigeon. The pigeon then flew back home with the information. One pigeon flew 4500 kilometers from the United States to Britain in 12 days-a speed of 375 kilometers a day! 3_____. George Lesage made the first electric telegraph in 1774. And Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. 4_____. Today we also have mobile phones, faxes, communication satellites, e-mails and the Internet to help us exchange information quickly around the world. | ||||||||||||||||||
| A. In the 1920s, scientists invented radio telephones B. One successful way was to use pigeons, a kind of bird C. someone who took messages from place to place D. The first modem ways of communicating were by telegraph and telephone | ||||||||||||||||||
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| A. The Best Communicating Way. B. Useful Pigeons. C. Long-Distance Communication. D. The Popular Internet | ||||||||||||||||||
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