It is a usual sunny afternoon in the village of Midwich, England. It seems not __(21)__ any afternoon in the village, but all of a sudden, people and animals lose consciousness. __(22)__ they awake, all of the women of child-bearing age have become pregnant.
This is an episode from a 1960 science fiction story. The women in the story __(23)__ birth to children that have the same appearance. They all have blond hair and “strange eyes.” __(24)__ the children grow, they run around the village in a pack, wearing identical clothing and hairstyles, staring at everyone impolitely. __(25)__ one child learns is also known by the others instantly. Villagers begin to __(26)__ their belief that the children all have “one mind.” In this story, the children are produced by some unexplained force from outer space. But this story written 40 years ago __(27)__ predicted the arrival of a recent method of genetic engineering—cloning. Cloning is the genetic process of producing copies of an individual. Will the genetic copies of a human really have “one mind” as __(28)__ in this story? This situation is so strange to us that we do not know what will __(29)__ of it. Faced with this new situation, people have __(30)__ to find out how to deal with it.
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