[填空题]Certain activist lawyers have grabbed headlines recently in their campaign to grant legal rights, first, to chimpanzees and then to other animals. (1) .
Proponents of animal rights build their case with these arguments: (1) certain animals share qualities of consciousness that have heretofore been seen as uniquely human; (2) animals are: brutalized in research; (3) research with animals has been made obsolete by computers and other technologies.
(2) . Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, there is no substitute for animal research to understand biological processes that affect a living organism. Think of it this way: Why use costly animals if equally useful non-animal research tools were available
(3) . With every medical breakthrough of the past century the direct result of animal-based research, such research is not only ethical, but is our obligation.
(4) . Philosopher Peter Singer first made the argument that some animals ought to

[填空题]Certain activist lawyers have grabbed headlines recently in their campaign to grant legal rights, first, to chimpanzees and then to other animals. (1) .
Proponents of animal rights build their case with these arguments: (1) certain animals share qualities of consciousness that have heretofore been seen as uniquely human; (2) animals are: brutalized in research; (3) research with animals has been made obsolete by computers and other technologies.
(2) . Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, there is no substitute for animal research to understand biological processes that affect a living organism. Think of it this way: Why use costly animals if equally useful non-animal research tools were available
(3) . With every medical breakthrough of the past century the direct result of animal-based research, such research is not only ethical, but is our obligation.
(4) . Philosopher Peter Singer first made the argument that some animals ought to

[简答题]All lawyers have had expensive and highly specialized training , and they work long, difficult hours for the money they earn. ( Passage 1 )

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Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative liter ature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards (内在部分) are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had become the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was, if anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that: it won’t stand much blowing up, and it won’t stand much poking. It has a certain fragi
A. parallelism
B. metaphors
C. metonymy
D. similes