CHAPTER 2 / DIAGNOSTIC SAT 57
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- The “control” mentioned in line 11 is control
over
(A) the effects of cloning
(B) the development of genetic technologies
(C) the process of conception
(D) the moral debate about cloning
(E) activities in a laboratory - Which of the following best describes the
attitude of the author of Passage 1 toward
“outsourcing” (line 14)?
(A) reluctant approval
(B) disdain
(C) strong support
(D) ironic detachment
(E) ambivalence - The statement “sorry, but I think I can do
better” (line 23) is intended to represent a
comment from
(A) a religious person to a nonreligious person
(B) an opponent of cloning to a scientist
(C) a voter to a politician
(D) the author to the reader
(E) an advocate of cloning to nature or God - The parenthetical comment in lines 27–28 is
intended to account for the possibility that
(A) life might be designed by a power
beyond humanity
(B) cloning technologies might become
uncontrollable
(C) two human beings might have the same
genetic makeup by chance alone
(D) some scientific theories might not be
reliable
(E) cloning technology might not succeed - Passage 1 mentions which of the following as
elements of “unnatural selection” (line 29)?
I. mechanical procedures
II. random processes
III. selection of characteristics
(A) I only
(B) III only
(C) I and II only
(D) I and III only
(E) I, II, and III - In the first paragraph of Passage 2, the author
suggests that the opponents of human cloning,
as a group, are all of the following EXCEPT
(A) very religious
(B) unreasonable about the implications of
cloning
(C) from widely varied political orientations
(D) ignorant of scientific history
(E) fearful of new ideas - Surgery is mentioned in lines 62–65 as an
example of
(A) a practice that requires a great deal of
education
(B) something that most people still fear
(C) a medical technology that was once
denounced
(D) a viable alternative to genetic technologies
(E) a skill in need of more practitioners