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Animal Testing Controversy
To paraphrase 18thcentury statesman Edmund Burke, "all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing. " One such cause now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights ruling out their use in research. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health knowledge and care. Leaders of the animal rights movement target biomedical research because it depends on public funding, and few people understand the process of health care research. Hearing allegations of cruelty to animals in research settings, many are perplexed that anyone would deliberately harm an animal.
For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that comes from o
A. call on scientists to take some actions
B. criticize the misguided cause of animal rights
C. warn of the doom of biomedical research
D. show the triumph of the animal rights movement
[填空题]Almost half green consumers take animal testing as the most influential factor that decides their buying choices.
[填空题]Animal testing is a cruel and uncivilized practice that _________________________ (剥夺了动物的生存权利).
[单项选择]controversy()
A. the price or cost of transportation.
B. easily to go bad.
C. not to do something that has been arranged or decided upon.
D. something designed, built or installed to serve a specific function or perform a particular service.
E. the act of paying a bill, debt, charge, etc.
F. trader through whom goods pass between the producer and the customer.
G. a tract of land including its buildings.
H. an official group of persons who direct or supervise some activities of a firm.
I. public argument about something which many people disagree with.
J. a way by which a place, esp. property can be reached or entered or used.
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Events
Animal Show The Third Shanghai Animal Art Activity is to be held on June 18 at Shanghai Zoo. There are performances by a Russian circus (马戏团) and exhibition of live insects (昆虫) from Canada. Lively baby animals, such as tigers and pandas, will also be shown.
Time: 7am - 4:30pm.
Place: 2381 Hongqiao Road.
Admission: 32 yuan.
Tel: 6268-777.
Ceramic Works (陶瓷器皿)
The Ming en Ceramic House near Hongqiao Airport is showing first-class ceramic works made by artists from Jingdezhen, the capital of chinaware (瓷器). Its make-it-yourself ceramic afternoons will give you a chance to try your hands at making ceramics yourself! Sun Ming en, who built the largest vase in the world, is the owner.
Time: 9am — midnight.
Place: 580 Huqingping Lu.
Tel: 6420-008.
Oriana Oriana, which used to be the British royal (皇家) s
A. Ceramic Works.
B. Animal Show.
C. Root Carvings.
D. Oriana.
[单项选择] Some animal behaviorists argue that certain animals can remember past events, anticipate future ones, make plans and choices, and coordinate activities within a group. These scientists, however, are cautious about the extent to which animals can be credited with conscious processing.
Explanations of animal behavior that leave out any sort of consciousness at all and ascribe actions entirely to instinct leave many questions unanswered. One example of such unexplained behavior: Honeybees communicate the sources of nectar to one another by doing a dance in a figure-eight pattern. The orientation of the dance conveys the position of the food relative to the sun’’s position in the sky, and the speed of the dance tells how far the food source is from the hive. Most researchers assume that the ability to perform and encode the dance is innate and shows no special intelligence. But in one study, when experimenters kept changing the site of the food source, each time moving the food 25 p
A. Selecting among choices.
B. Anticipating events to come.
C. Remembering past experiences.
D. Communicating emotions.
[简答题]Genetic Testing
Genetic testing is transforming medicine and the way families think about their health. As science uncovers the complicated secrets of DNA, we face difficult choices and new challenges.
About Genetic testing
The year was 1895 and Pauline Gross, a young actress, was scared. Gross knew nothing about the human-genome (基因组,染色体组) project—such medical triumphs, but she did know about a nasty disease called cancer, and it was running through her family. "I’m healthy now," she often told Dr. Aldred Warthin from at the University of Michigan, "but I fully expect to die an early death."
At the time, Gross’s prediction was based solely on observation: family members had died of cancer; she would, too. Today, more than 100 years later, Gross’s relatives have a much more clinical option: genetic testing. With a simple blood test; they can peer into their own DNA, learning—while still perfectly healthy—whether they carry an inheritable gene mutat