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

READINGS

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. Researchersat 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 cats 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