考研英语阅读资料-伦理道德类6.docx

考研英语怎么复习？在考研复习中，复习资料的选择至关重要。中公考研辅导老师为考生整理了【考研英语-阅读理解知识点讲解和习题】，同时可以为大家提供名师考研英语视频、考研英语复习资料、考研英语真题和考研英语辅导等，助您冲击名校！Text 2本文背景知识：克隆（Clone）：在广义上是指利用生物技术由无性生殖产生与原个体有完全相同基因组之后代的过程。在生物学上，是指选择性地复制出一段DNA序列（分子克隆）、细胞（细胞克隆）或是个体（个体克隆）。国家生物伦理学顾问委员会(the National Bioethics Advisory Commission NBAC)：该委员会班子承担着研究“生命问题的终结……生物医学技术的伦理意义以及限制科学研究的结果”和其他问题的任务。2009年11月24日，美国总统奥巴马宣布设立新的生物伦理顾问委员会，而新的委员会将研究“知识产权问题、神经科学和机器人科学的应用……科研中的利益冲突以及科学与人权的交叉”。When a Scottish research team startled the world by revealing 3 months ago that it had cloned an adult sheep, President Clinton moved swiftly. Declaring that he was opposed to using this unusual animal husbandry technique to clone humans, he ordered that federal funds not be used for such an experiment — although no one had proposed to do so — and asked an independent panel of experts chaired by Princeton President Harold Shapiro to report back to the White House in 90 days with recommendations for a national policy on human cloning. That group — the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) — has been working feverishly to put its wisdom on paper, and at a meeting on 17 May, members agreed on a near-final draft of their recommendations.NBAC will ask that Clinton’s 90-day ban on federal funds for human cloning be extended indefinitely, and possibly that it be made law. But NBAC members are planning to word the recommendation narrowly to avoid new restrictions on research that involves the cloning of human DNA or cells — routine in molecular biology. The panel has not yet reached agreement on a crucial question, however, whether to recommend legislation that would make it a crime for private funding to be used for human cloning.In a draft preface to the recommendations, discussed at the 17 May meeting, Shapiro suggested that the panel had found a broad consensus that it would be “morally unacceptable to attempt to create a human child by adult nuclear cloning.” Shapiro explained during the meeting that the moral doubt stems mainly from fears about t