上外阅读教程4 课后习题答案

Unit 1 Animals and Their Rights

READING1

Check Your Vocabulary A

1.d

2.b

3.g

4.e

5.h

6.c

7.a

8.i

9.f

Check Your Vocabulary B

1.Many children at first refuse to eat animal flesh. They later become to eating it

just because their parents persuade them to eat it.

2.There are two different and conflicting attitudes towards animals; they are

carefully separated so that the contradiction between the two hardly causes trouble.

3.Pictures and stories deliberately avoid presenting the real situation in our

modern farms. Children, therefore, are kept from seeing the reality.

4.The difficulty will be that non-vegetarian parents do not let their children know

about the gruesome side of the story, as they are afraid to refuse to eat meat at meals.

5.Unfortunately, non-vegetarian parents will strongly disapprove of their children’s

unwillingness to eat meat.

READING2

Check Your Vocabulary A

1. malevolent

2.misdirected

3.alleviate

4.simulation

5.potent

6.arouse

7.placate

8. apathetic

9.therapy 10.alternative 11.expedient 12.vilified

READING3

Check Your Vocabulary A

1.balance

2.attached department

3.wickedness; evils

4.pressure

5.claim that are has evidence or seen what has happened

6.a place where birds are protected and allowed to live freely

7. the power to carry out legal judgment

8. dirty 9.not having to perform 10.crimes

Check Your Vocabulary B

1.When his animals are being experimented on, the act does not take effect.

2.Your experimenter is not defying law.

3.Researchers at Louisiana University launched an eight-year, $2 million project

funded by the Department of Defense. They use tools to hold cats firmly and they then remove cat’s skulls and shoot in the head.

4.The experimenters claim that their purpose for this kind of experiment is to find a

way of curing brain-wounded soldiers so that they can later go back to military service.

5.Psychologists used medical operations to turn around the eyes of young cats.

6.There is other evidence showing that cats were not adequately anesthetized

while experimenters cut their eye muscles; animal experimentation was done by people who were not trained and did not have licenses to operate on animals;

and mother cats were so agitated by experiments on them that they ate their babies.

READING4

Check Your Vocabulary A

1.denounced

2.confinement

3.inflicted

4.defied

5. consensus

6.defiance

Unit 2 Crime and Punishment

READING1

Check Your Vocabulary A

1.minor: people who are under the age of 18

2.brutally: cruelly

3.sympathy: feeling of pity

4.severe: harsh

5.innocent: not guilty of a crime

6.proponent: supporter

7.controversy: argument, opposing views

Check Your Vocabulary B

1.convicted

2. Commit

3.proponent

4.abused

5.penalty

6. controversies

7.brutal

8.severe

9.executed 10.appealing

READING2

Check Your Vocabulary A

1.Now we can enjoy the benefits and list in what ways we benefit from his death.

2.There must be some other benefit by fastening Harding into a chair in a small

room and poisoning him to death with gas.

3.Now even people who are eloquently in support of executing people, such as

Arizona Attorney Grant woods, who attract a lot of public attention, believe that the death penalty will keep people from committing crimes.

4.But even killing a small number of murders will have great impact on people.

5.Perhaps the benefit we get from killing Harding is not easy to see.