新视野大学英语读写译(第三版)第二册Unit8课后习题答案

He became a children's doctor because of his love for children and his strong desire to keep them healthy.

He is thought of having no moral compass: He tortures innocent animals for his career advancement and his experiments have nothing to do with medicine.

The public barely watches, convinced that the issue has no significance to them, while the senators and politicians continue to give way to the lobbying of animal rights activists.

The author does not really admit their mistake, but the tone is apparently ironic, criticizing that the physicians were too soft to respond to the animal rights activists.

Life is cruel to both animals and human beings. If physicians don't create an animal model of the problem, they have to do experiments on human beings; or the medical knowledge will remain static.

Drugs to cure infection will remain undiscovered, surgical and diagnostic techniques will remain undeveloped, and fundamental biological processes will remain mysteries.

If the more radical members of this movement are successful in threatening further research, their efforts will bring about a tragedy that will cost the lives of many human beings.

It helps diagnose disease.

• It develops drugs to cure infection and disease.

• It carries out complex surgical procedures.

• It empl oys techniques to replace defective genes.

• It stimulates development of synthetic organs.

Participate in different animal rights activities.

• Make public speeches at different social settings.

• Write newspaper articles to condemn the inhuman animal research.

• Launch an appeal on the Internet to arouse public concern for animal rights.

It is too cruel and inhuman.

• Animals should have equal rights as humans.

• The research result may not apply to humans

Yes, because they are ethical and justified and the public will support the movement.

• No, because they are misdirected and they even do something improper such as burning an animal laboratory.

Yes, if animal research is abandoned, there will be almost no advances in medicine and it will cost many lives of human beings. As compared to animals, human beings are more valuable because they take many social responsibilities.

1.

The main task for the troop there is not fighting but (arresting) the

progress of the enemy army and waiting for reinforcements (援兵).

2. He always anxiously summarizes the concessions which he has made but

he almost always (omits) to mention those offered by the other party.

3.

She was an excellent teacher, whose (optional) courses on women's

writing were very popular among the students.

4. It will be up to the doctor's judgment whether or not the organ can be

successfully (transplanted) to the child who has been waiting for it.

5. Teachers can no longer use their past experiences to prepare students for

their future career; (hence) , our young people need to rely on

themselves.

6. Accurate and inaccurate information is mixed so naturally that there are no

reliable ways to tell what has been (twisted) and what has not.

7.

That wealthy lady's demand on a premarital agreement greatly (stung)

her future husband's pride, and it ended up with his refusal to get married.

8.

When I opened the album, I carefully examined every photograph in

(minute) detail by wearing my reading glasses so as not to miss anything.

9.

It seems that James has a talent for acting because he can (imitate)

different teachers' speeches perfectly, which really amazes his

classmates.

10. Smoking is compared to self-poisoning and self-destroying, thus making

the (evil) effects of smoking cigarettes truly alarming.

interference

thriller

scarce

specific

consumption / consumer

deception

invasion / invader

procession

1. Multinational corporations protested strongly against any unreasonable

(interference) by some countries in the free marketplace.

2.

At the time a real threat of a(n) (invasion) of the British Isles existed, so

the British troops were gathered around the coastline to get ready to fight against an invading fleet.

3.

(Consumption) is relatively low, and it shows that the economic problem in the country stems from the dangerous side effects of careless politics and widespread poverty.

4.

The wedding (procession) was of an enormous size and enormous

splendor, which was started homeward and followed by a large banquet at

a luxury hotel.

5. When doing writing exercises for that English course, students should

remember that they are writing according to (specific) structures.

6.

Among close family and good friends, (deception) is the worst part of life, and we believe in practicing good faith and honesty.

7.

Jobs are (scarce) at the moment, so you should be realistic in your

choices about the pay, working hours, medical benefits, bonuses, etc.

8.

The writer was thinking about writing some kind of (thrillers) because it would help him become popular through making his plot more attractive to the young.

The animal rights movement is a social movement which seeks an end to using animals in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries, (1)(hence) being called animal liberation. It advocates the idea that the most basic interests of non-human creatures should be (2)(afforded) the same consideration as those of human beings.

Advocates (3)(lobby) for animal rights from different aspects, ranging from the focus on animal suffering in laboratories to the argument that (4) (insists) on not casting animals as properties of human beings. Despite the different a …… 此处隐藏：8356字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……