Dating

Reading Comprehension 3

In this modern era, technology has developed into such a certain degree that scientists are able to create new forms of life. One of them is cloning. The debate whether cloning at animals is allowed or not seems never endless

            Those who agree with the cloning at animals usually argue that the seed produced from them can be used to everlasting rare species. They also add that cloning has a purpose to produce high quality of seeds. Many species are becoming rare and rare. Scientists are concerned if they don’t do something to save the species, these animals will be extinct forever from the world and this means a big loss in the animal kingdom. From this reason, researchers improve the cloning technology so that many rare species can be successfully cloned.

            Not everyone is excited about cloning at animals. However, some people feel that it could have terrible consequences. For example, if Dinosaurs are cloned, then men will be destroyed. It is clear that the ferocious beasts cannot live together with humans. In history, these creatures lived several thousand years before men appeared. Can you imagine these giant killing creatures live within the same era and in the same planet with us?

            As a result of this controversy, people still haven’t got the answer yet for cloning at animals. While some members of the scientific community think that the banning of cloning technology will destroy the creativity of science.

Reading Comprehension 2

Fluffy Bunny Rabbit

After a long day at the office, Chris came home one day and found his dog with the neighbour's pet rabbit in his mouth. The rabbit was obviously dead. Chris panicked!

"If my neighbours find out my dog killed their bunny, they will hate me forever," he thought.

So he took the dirty, chewed up rabbit into the house, gave it a bath and blow-dried its fur.

Chris knew his neighbours kept their back door open during the summer, so he sneaked inside and put the bunny back into the cage, hoping his neighbours would think it died of natural causes.

A couple days later Chris and his neighbour saw each other outside.

"Did you hear that Fluffy die?" the neighbour asked.

"Oh..Uhmm.., sorry to hear that. What happened?" Chris mumbled.

The neighbour replied, "We just found his dead in his cage one day. But the strange thing is that the day after we buried him, we went out to dinner and someone must have dug him, gave him a bath and put him back into the cage!!"

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is known as the greatest English writer of all time.

 Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His father, John, was a glove maker and his mother, Mary, came from a farming family. He had two brothers and four sisters. William went to the village school.

 In 1582, Shakespeare married a local woman named Anne Hathaway. Their daughter Susanna was born in 1583 and their twins, Hamnet and Judith, were born in 1585.

 Nothing is known about Shakespeare’s life from 1585 to about 1591. It is known that, by 1592, he was an actor living in London. He started writing poems about this time and later wrote more than 150 sonnets, which were published in 1609. He was also writing plays.

 In 1594, Shakespeare and some other actors started a new theater company. It was sponsored by a wealthy nobleman, the Lord Chamberlain. When James I became king, he sponsored their company and it became known as the “King’s Men.”

 In 1599, the company built a new theatre, called the Globe. Shakespeare was one of its owners. For over 20 years, he wrote about two plays a year for the acting company to perform in the Globe theatre. Everyone, from royalty to peasants, came to see his plays.

 Shakespeare became a wealthy man and bought a large house in Stratford. After about 1611, he spent most of his time there. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried at Stratford. He was 52 years old.

 Shakespeare’s plays include comedies, tragedies, and histories. Scholars have studied his plays and poems for over 300 years. Some argue about whether he actually wrote some of the plays. Other scholars have tried to discover the identities of the man and woman he wrote about in his sonnets. 

Today, all of his plays are still performed and enjoyed by people around the world.