Excerpt from the pet cloning controversy
sean putman

6 cloning also brings many pet owners great joy. nicky was a beloved maine coon cat owned by a woman in texas named julie. nicky’s owner was devastated when he passed away in 2004. to cloning, julie has a new special friend. she says that little nicky is healthy and happy. besides looking just like the first nicky, little nicky shares some of his distinctive behaviors—proving the wonders of cloning. this includes an unusual fascination with water.

7 there is also the well-documented story of missy, the border collie-husky mix. missy’s owner missed her so much that he founded a company that private citizens clone their pets. fifteen years after missy’s passing, mira was born. mira bears a striking resemblance to missy and behaves just like her as well. two additional missy clones, chingu and sarang, live with family members and often visit their “twin sister” mira.

which idea is best supported by the information in sections six and seven?

a)
cloning results cannot be predicted.

b)
cloning promotes scientific research.

c)
cloning should be available to all pet lovers.

d)
emotions motivate pet lovers to clone their pets.

c. a group of tribes that formed a confederacy

"why don't you like me the way i am? " i cried. "i'm not a genius! i can't play the piano, and even if i could, i wouldn't go on tv if you paid me a million dollars! "

explanation:

the conflict between jing-mei and her mother is over jing-mei's piano lessons since her mother wants her to become a prodigy but she does not want to play it any more.

in our power to make a world happy - to teach mankind the art of being so - to a character hitherto unknown - and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated,

21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.