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

Check Your Vocabulary B

1. convicted

2. Commit

3.proponent

4.abused

5.penalty

6. controversies

7.brutal

8.severe

9.executed 10.appealing

READING2

Check Your Vocabulary A

1. 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 eloquently 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 from killing Harding is not easy to see.

Check Your Vocabulary B

1. reaping

2.abolish

3.counted up

4.serves

5.revenge

6. free up

7.strapped

8.tangible

9.figured 10.barbaric

READINGS

Check Your Comprehension B

1. Her voice and facial expressions show that she is sometimes deep in sorrow

sometimes furious beyond 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 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 B

1. oscillating

2. tremulous

3.manslaughter

4.slain

5. reconcile

6.sorely

7.equilibrium

8.rehabilitation

READING4

Check Your Comprehension B

1. I carefully examined Tony 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 the 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 Tony's partners had been betrayed.

4. Words had gone around that Tonys wife was murdered that because the

underworld wanted revenge against 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 B

1.executed

2.underworld

3.copping out

4.eerily

5.malevolent

6.luminous

7. vent

8.intelligble

Unit3 Gun Ownership and Censorship

READING1

Check Your Comprehension B

1. (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 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 may be lowered, but I will still be alive.

Check Your Vocabulary A

1. bear/keep

2.ensure/assure

3.place

4.protect/enjoy

5.enforce/pass

6. face

7.enjoy/gain/exercise/ensure/assure 8.exercise

Check Your Vocabulary B

1.viciously

2.antique

3.mandatory

4.bloodshed

5.infringed

6. perception

7.institute

8.legitimate

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READING2

Check Your Comprehension B

1. 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 to 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 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 they are armed.

Check Your Vocabulary A

1. convinced

2.precautions

3.stroll

4.opinions

5.tactic

6.vulnerable

7. exploration https://www.sodocs.net/doc/b416355776.html,bat 9.concealed 10.slash 11.belligerent 12.rock

13.desolate 14.wield

Check your Vocabulary B

1. swerved

2.trespassing

3.saddened

4.slashed

5. paranoid

6.prowling

READINGS

Check Your Comprehension B

1. 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, 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. idyllic

2.assailant

3.paranoia

4.deterrent

5.flinch

6.close-knit

7. propelled 8.incarcerated

READING4

Check Your Comprehension B

1. That day my husband Jim Brady ------ t he press secretary of Ronald Reagan, was

(permanently crippled by the assassin s bullet and therefore) added to the list of the victims of American 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 laws 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 suffering of his gun wound.

Check Your Vocabulary A

I.legacy 2. spree 3.endorsed/endorses/will endorse 4.assaults

5. outraged

6.gratified

7.carnage

8.escalate

9.legislate

Check Your Vocabulary B

1. alarming/appalling

2.easy

3.growing/alarming

4.mindless

5.appalling/deadly

6.deadly

7.vast/growing

8.convicted

Unit5 Motivation or unhealthy Experience (Competition)

READING1

Check Your Comprehension B

1. 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. From my own experience, I don't 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 don 't think I ll ever have

real satisfaction because I have to keep thinking of how to outdo others, which 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 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 B

1.contradicition

2.exclusive

3.conditional

4.outweigh

5.incalculable

7. treadmill 8.unjustifiable 9.hysteria 10.outweigh

6.induce

READING2

Check Your Comprehension B

1. 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 don't know for sure whether or not you 'll be

able to achieve your aim.

3. For many of us, 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 pleasantly in their own lives.

Check Your Vocabulary

1. pervasive

2.defective

3.promote

4.sabotaged

5.narcissistic

6. graceful

7.toxic

8.stellar

READINGS

Check Your Comprehension B

1. Competition can be fun, but we may be overenthusiastic and unreasonable about

it.

2. Candidates who sit in a test performance 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 not stop going through it?

Check Your Vocabulary

1. disrespectful

2.outdo

3.audition

4.responsibility

5.scared

5. dread 7.gripes 8.vicious 9.depress 10.ironic

READING4

Check Your Vocabulary A

1. take on

2.subject someone to

3.at full speed

4.at all costs

5.pit — against

6. in charge

7.step in

8.disservice

9.distorted

Check Your Vocabulary B

1. downplay

2.realms

3.ostracism

4.paralysis

5.impose

6. ethic

7.temperament

8.steer

Unit6 Me and Another Me (Human Cloning)

READING1

Check Your Vocabulary A

1. News about cloning breakthroughs is usually reported disapprovingly, yet on the

arrival of CC last week. These 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 arrival of CC last week, the cloning debate, which began in 1997 when

Dolly was cloned, became heated and important again.

4. The Texaslab s successrate 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.

5. It is hard to say how much of an animal ' 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 experiment has been received so well.

Check Your Vocabulary B

l.subtext 2.surrogate 3.hostility 4.well-heeled 5.duplicate

6. felines

7.toss-up

8.split

9.fused 10.confounded

READING2

Check Your Comprehension B

1. Academics and the public felt disturbed at last weeks news of the first cloned

sheep, since it seems 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 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

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3.prompt/turn out

4.stock

5.take advantage of

6.make a chance

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READINGS

Check Your Vocabulary B

l.skeptical 2.cracked 3.plundered 4.hurdle 5.ominously 6.breached

7. flinched 8.apprehension 9.draconian 10.loomed

READING4

Check Your Vocabulary

1. vindicated

2.spawned

3.defective

4.suttle

5.misconception

6. justified

7.superficial

8.term

9.crucial