71. The author was most probably as ____.

1. an observer
2. a secretary
3. a secret agent
4. a correspondent

72. According to the author, ____.

1. ACT's scientists had no intention of creating a person
2. ACT's experiment would be a first step towards creating radical new cures
3. ACT's scientists were very mindful of government's perceptions
4. all the above

73. According to the passage, human cloning is clearly categorized as ____.

1. political and religious
2. reproductive and therapeutic
3. debatable and controversial
4. preliminary and inconsequential

74. According to this passage, attempts to use human cells for cloning ____.

1. have encouraged those who have faith in the premise of the new procedure
2. have criticized those who envision only the dark side and unintended consequences
3. have provoked heated debates in the United States
4. have made ACT's work an ethical transgression of the highest order

75. The mood of the ACT's scientists was tense because ____.

1. what they were doing that night might soon be made illegal
2. they would soon make ACT's breakthroughs
3. they would make international headline that night
4. President George W. Bush might come to their lab that night

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