Answers to "Designing the Future" HW

Answers to the vocabulary activity we did in class just before lunch:

1. approaching               2. athletic            3. intellect         4. brings up           5. shortage

6. acceptable                 7. appearance      8. restricted        9. convinced       10. lead to, advantages

11. In short, humanity

Understanding Inference
1. The technology for designing babies does not exist yet.
2. Right now, scientists don't know how to make humans with animal traits.
3. Some geneticists think that it will be a long time before the technology that will allow the parents to design their babies is developed.

Studying Collocations

Answers will vary. If you need me to check any of your answers, ask me in class.

1. If I have children, I will try to prevent them from behaving badly. 

* We can’t say prevent from them. This is grammatically wrong. You need an object right after the verb and before the preposition.

2. A friend of mine has been cured of cancer.

3. My children will inherit money and property from me.

* We can’t say inherit from me money. Inherit from also needs an object right after the verb and before the preposition.

4. I once lost my friend’s book, so I replaced it with a new one.

* We can’t say replaced with it. The object needs to be after the verb and before the preposition.

Summarizing

Because of genetic engineering, many scientists believe that in the future, parents will be able to design their children. Already, scientists kno how to use genetic engineering and genetic testing to determine the gender of the fetus. In the future, scientists expect to be able to identify the genes that determine most human traits, including those that affect physical appearance, intellect, and personality. When that happens, surveys show that many parents will use genetic engineering to choose desirable traits for their children. The use of genetic engineering to design children leads to some difficult moral questions, for example: Will the children of rich parents have more design advantages than the children of parents who can't afford genetic engineering? But the most important question is: Will genetic engineering change what it means to be human?

The Vocabulary in New Contexts

1.atheltic          2. convinced                3. humanity                 4. appearance

5. restricted     6. lead to                     7. acceptable               8. bring up

9. intellect        10. advantages          11. In short                  12. shortage     13. approach

Word Families

The stressed syllable is the one that comes after the little “apostrophe”: ‘kərədʒ

1. a. 2, the first syllable

     b. 3, the second syllable

2. a. 3, the second syllable

    b. 4, the third syllable

3. a. 4, the second syllable

    b. 2, the first syllable

Studying Word Grammar

1. Historically                    2. humanely                       3. In short          4. Actually

What is the main idea of the article? - It should be similar to the answer below.

In the future, scientists may be able to identify the genes that determine most human traits, including those that affect appearance, intellect, and personality. When that happens, surveys show that many parents will use genetic engineering to choose desirable traits for their children.