1、Unit 1 Animals and Their RightsREADING1Check Your Vocabulary A1.d 2.b 3.g 4.e 5.h 6.c 7.a 8.i 9.fCheck Your Vocabulary B1. 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 a
2、ttitudes 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 no
3、n-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 childrens unwillingness to eat meat.READING2Check Your Vocabulary A1. malevolent 2.m
4、isdirected 3.alleviate 4.simulation 5.potent 6.arouse 7.placate 8. apathetic 9.therapy 10.alternative 11.expedient 12.vilifiedREADING3Check Your Vocabulary A1.balance 2.attached department 3.wickedness; evils 4.pressure 5.claim that are has evidence or seen what has happened6.a place where birds are
5、 protected and allowed to live freely7. the power to carry out legal judgment8. dirty 9.not having to perform 10.crimesCheck Your Vocabulary B1. 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 lau
6、nched 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 t
7、hey 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 tra
8、ined and did not have licenses to operate on animals; and mother cats were so agitated by experiments on them that they ate their babies.READING4Check Your Vocabulary A1.denounced 2.confinement 3.inflicted 4.defied 5. consensus 6.defianceUnit 2 Crime and PunishmentREADING1Check Your Vocabulary A1. m
9、inor: people who are under the age of 182. brutally: cruelly3. sympathy: feeling of pity4. severe: harsh5. innocent: not guilty of a crime6. proponent: supporter7. controversy: argument, opposing viewsCheck Your Vocabulary B1.convicted 2. Commit 3.proponent 4.abused 5.penalty 6. controversies 7.brut
10、al 8.severe 9.executed 10.appealing READING2Check Your Vocabulary A1. 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 elo
11、quently 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 fro
12、m killing Harding is not easy to see.Check Your Vocabulary B1. reaping 2.abolish 3.counted up 4.serves 5.revenge 6. free up 7.strapped 8.tangible 9.figured 10.barbaricREADING3Check Your Comprehension B1. Her voice and facial expressions show that she is sometimes deep in sorrow sometimes furious bey
13、ond her control.2. This sense of justice, like many other basic beliefs, is such a necessary element for us to maintain our psychological health that we take for granted and hardly ever become aware of its existence until one day justice is severely violated.3. Peoples opinions greatly differ as to
14、what is the proper way for correcting punishing wrong/criminal behavior.4. Europeans are quite passionate when coming to the issues of taking tough measures on political violence.Check Your Vocabulary B1. oscillating 2. tremulous 3.manslaughter 4.slain 5.reconcile 6.sorely 7.equilibrium 8.rehabilita
15、tionREADING4Check Your Comprehension B1. I carefully examined Tonys bed to see if he had dirtied it with his body fluids.2. When I looked at the sickly man, I could not imagine that he used to be clean and neat, serious, and determined and that he robbered a bank and killed a cop.3. Many people in t
16、he underworld believed that Tony should have done something for his partners, but he did nothing. This had hurt his partners. The underworld people believed that Tonys partners had been betrayed.4. Words had gone around that Tonys wife was murdered that because the underworld wanted revenge against
17、Tony for the death of his three crime partners.5. The lights shining in the window made the hollows in his dark face look deeper, making his look somewhat evil.Check Your Vocabulary B1.executed 2.underworld 3.copping out 4.eerily 5.malevolent 6.luminous 7. vent 8.intelligbleUnit3 Gun Ownership and C
18、ensorshipREADING1Check Your Comprehension B1. (The figures and cases of gun accidents and killing) surely will make people think twice before they insist on having their rights to own guns.2. If it takes longer time to own a gun, then it will reduce the chances of people who use guns to harm or kill
19、 other people on impulse.3. A gun safety program should be made a must for gun owners, especially those who buy guns for the first time.4. Opponents of gun control also think that gun control is similar to censorship. However, with censorship, when I cannot speak certain things, my quality of life m
20、ay be lowered, but I will still be alive.Check Your Vocabulary A1.bear/keep 2.ensure/assure 3.place 4.protect/enjoy 5.enforce/pass 6.face 7.enjoy/gain/exercise/ensure/assure 8.exerciseCheck Your Vocabulary B1.viciously 2.antique 3.mandatory 4.bloodshed 5.infringed6.perception 7.institute 8.legitimat
21、e 9.militia 10.censorshipREADING2Check Your Comprehension B1. Houses where people live are far apart. Few vehicles are on the roads. The landscape around you is empty and bare, so that you will not be able to find anywhere to hide when in danger.2. Even when I was inside my car, I was still liable t
22、o be attacked, and without protection.3. I drove over to him and told him it was a private and legally protected place.4. I am not the type that gets excessively worried about my own security, nor am I willing to take risks, but I thought I needed more protection than what I had.5. Just those words
23、and actions spoke in threats and violence, my gesturing with the pistol was a reply in the same rude and violent style, the only way that they could understand.6. I am a pacifist by nature. That peaceful nature inside me makes me sad at the thought that perhaps women can only be free and equal when
24、they are armed.Check Your Vocabulary A1. convinced 2.precautions 3.stroll 4.opinions 5.tactic 6.vulnerable 7.exploration bat 9.concealed 10.slash 11.belligerent 12.rock 13.desolate 14.wieldCheck your Vocabulary B1. swerved 2.trespassing 3.saddened 4.slashed 5. paranoid 6.prowlingREADING3Check Your C
25、omprehension B1. The policeman recognized that the person who threatened and followed me was also reported to have done the same thing someone else years ago and he immediately took me away from my house.2. At the court, I learned that the person who threatened to rape and kill me was mentally ill,
26、but somehow was neglected and not placed in a mental hospital.3. In this part of the countryside of the Michigan, people are keen on keeping and using guns.4. When you keep a gun to protect yourself, you live in constant fear and worry.5. I was not killed, but I changed.Check your Vocabulary 1. idyl
27、lic 2.assailant 3.paranoia 4.deterrent 5.flinch 6.close-knit 7.propelled 8.incarceratedREADING4Check Your Comprehension B1. That day my husband Jim Brady-the press secretary of Ronald Reagan, was (permanently crippled by the assassins bullet and therefore) added to the list of the victims of America
28、n handgun war.2. Under the circumstance, Congress votes for a salary increase for all the congressmen.3. The National Rifle Association expects the public to appease their anger so that there would be no more anger directed at the policymakers.4. Like me , people in the nation who make sure that law
29、s are obeyed, who put their life in danger for us every day, are not willing to hand a handgun to another assassin like John Hinckley.5. Jim Brady knows that it is important to have a waiting time (for people who apply for purchasing guns). He knows that as he is living through the agony and sufferi
30、ng of his gun wound.Check Your Vocabulary A1.legacy 2. spree 3.endorsed/endorses/will endorse 4.assaults 5. outraged 6.gratified 7.carnage 8.escalate 9.legislateCheck Your Vocabulary B1. alarming/appalling 2.easy 3.growing/alarming 4.mindless 5.appalling/deadly 6.deadly 7.vast/growing 8.convictedUni
31、t5 Motivation or unhealthy Experience (Competition)READING1Check Your Comprehension B1. Competition plays such an important role in our culture that it is common to see even adults shouting and swearing on Sunday afternoons (when watching baseball games). This is ridiculous and I feel bad about it.2
32、. From my own experience, I dont think we can develop deep and full relationships by trying to compete and win against a common enemy.3. If my success means that I have to be better than others, I dont think Ill ever have real satisfaction because I have to keep thinking of how to outdo others, whic
33、h is very unpleasant and exhausting.4. Even when I reach the top position, I will not feel safe as all those below me will be waiting to outdo me and try to grab the position from me.5. I start to see that my confidence in my personal value and worth is dependent on how much better I am than so many
34、 others in so many activities.6. Only when we begin to realize that there is no such a thing as healthy competition can we begin to live more normal and richer lives.Check Your vocabulary B1.contradicition 2.exclusive 3.conditional 4.outweigh 5.incalculable 6.induce 7. treadmill 8.unjustifiable 9.hy
35、steria 10.outweighREADING2Check Your Comprehension B1. Your knew that one had healthy self-esteem when he/she could enjoy competing in a hobby,which he/she was not good at.2. A true competition is one in which you dont know for sure whether or not youll be able to achieve your aim.3. For many of us,
36、 competition is an additional ingredient that keeps our life interesting, makes us alert and active, and enables us to be more creative and productive.4. It can become a good part of our life and exerts a great (massive) influence on how we live.5. Parents must also set an example of how to compete
37、pleasantly in their own lives.Check Your Vocabulary 1. pervasive 2.defective 3.promote 4.sabotaged 5.narcissistic 6. graceful 7.toxic 8.stellarREADING3Check Your Comprehension B1. Competition can be fun, but we may be overenthusiastic and unreasonable about it.2. Candidates who sit in a test perform
38、ance in order to join certain bands can get undeniably violent and aggressive.3. Feel free to find a gift of yours, develop it, and embarrass those who dare to challenge you.4. If competition isnt fun and people find themselves feeling extremely worried about an event they are competing in, then why
39、 not stop going through it?Check Your Vocabulary 1. disrespectful 2.outdo 3.audition 4.responsibility 5.scared5. dread 7.gripes 8.vicious 9.depress 10.ironicREADING4Check Your Vocabulary A1. take on 2.subject someone to 3.at full speed 4.at all costs 5.pitagainst6. in charge 7.step in 8.disservice 9
40、.distortedCheck Your Vocabulary B1. downplay 2.realms 3.ostracism 4.paralysis 5.impose 6. ethic 7.temperament 8.steerUnit6 Me and Another Me (Human Cloning)READING1Check Your Vocabulary A1. News about cloning breakthroughs is usually reported disapprovingly, yet on the arrival of CC last week. These
41、 disapproving voices could hardly be heard-they were covered up by a chorus of gentle and loving reports from the press crops, who were charmed by COs cuteness.2. So far in the clone debate the emotional aspect has been largely overlooked, yet the arrival of CC brings it into force.3. With the arriv
42、al of CC last week, the cloning debate, which began in 1997 when Dolly was cloned, became heated and important again.4. The Texas labs success rate is as low as 1 out of 87, but it is not surprising or uncommon in cloning work. Generally, one successful clone means dozens of dead embryos in the lab.
43、5. It is hard to say how much of an animals personality is genetically written and how much is decided by environment, so temperament of a clone pet is also a matter of chance.6. They regarded CC as a test of how much people can tolerate human cloning ethically, and they worry because this trial exp
44、eriment has been received so well.Check Your Vocabulary B1.subtext 2.surrogate 3.hostility 4.well-heeled 5.duplicate6.felines 7.toss-up 8.split 9.fused 10.confoundedREADING2Check Your Comprehension B1. Academics and the public felt disturbed at last weeks news of the first cloned sheep, since it see
45、ms possible that human beings might be the next species to be cloned.2. Human dignity would indeed be violated if a cloned individual was judged to be inferior, and entitled to less rights or importance than other humans. 3. The fact that infertile couples have other choices does not give the right
46、to prevent them from trying cloning.4. Democratic societies generally only ban things when there is convincing evidence of harm that they may bring.5. If cloned humans are not safe in our world, the rest of us are not safe either.Check Your Vocabulary 1. grow out of e up with 3.prompt/turn out 4.sto
47、ck 5.take advantage of 6.make a chance 7.layers ofREADING3Check Your Vocabulary B1.skeptical 2.cracked 3.plundered 4.hurdle 5.ominously 6.breached 7.flinched 8.apprehension 9.draconian 10.loomed READING4Check Your Vocabulary 1. vindicated 2.spawned 3.defective 4.suttle 5.misconception 6. justified 7.superficial 8.term 9.crucial
