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NarratorListen to part of a lecture in a biology class.Now get ready to answer
NarratorListen to part of a lecture in a biology class.Now get ready to answer
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2024-01-03
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Narrator
Listen to part of a lecture in a biology class.
Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help you answer. [br] What does the professor imply when he says this?
Narrator
Listen to part of a lecture in a biology class.
Professor
So today we’re gonna talk about animal experimentation. Do you know why animal experimentation is scientific fraud? I am an animal lover. Although I have never personally performed vivisection or experimented on animals, I have many friends and former colleagues who have done so. Almost every single one of these people feel an enormous burden and responsibility to see that the animals suffer as little as possible and that no animal in an experiment loses its’ life for nothing.
Scientists for the most part are not in it for the money or the fame, both of which most scientists NEVER see much of, by the way. They want to help make the world a little better while exercising their innate curiosity. For you to demonize the many scientists who experiment while trying to find cures for diseases is really unfortunate and demonstrates that you are terribly uninformed.
Am I saying that human life is more important than animal life? I am not. Animal experimentation is also performed on animals for the betterment of animal health. Am I saying that all animal experimentation is necessary? Absolutely not. Some of it is very likely a sad waste of animal lives and the cause of needless suffering, and certainly a waste of limited research funding. Am I saying that some of this work has saved human lives? Absolutely. Satan Jr.’s example(insulin)is one such case.
As an animal lover, I will be most pleased when the use of animals in science is no longer performed. Do you really want to help make animal experimentation a memory? Then become a scientist and develop alternative disease models and non-animal based remedies and then make your research widely available to other scientists. If you had really done your homework and focused on something beyond your anger and hatred, you would see that many scientists have already done just this. You can also donate time and/or money to organizations that support the development of alternatives to animal testing.
Science, like so many other fields, is slow to evolve. It will take time. The great advances in science that have given us the high standard of medical care humans and animals enjoy today have come from clinical observation, in vitro research, epidemiology, autopsies, serendipity, computer and mathematical modeling, technology, tissue research using the tissue from the species being studied, molecular biology and genetics, post-marketing drug surveillance, the basic sciences of maths, chemistry and physics and the specialization of medical care, including the specialization of physicians and veterinarians. The animal experimentation lobby, however, spends millions annually to convince the public that all medical advances are directly due to animal experiments. Furthermore, animals are not able to communicate about any side effects they may be experiencing. At least half of the side effects experienced by most drugs cannot be accurately communicated by animals.
In April 1998, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported on a study which showed that more than 2 million Americans become seriously ill every year because of toxic reactions to correctly prescribed medicine and 106 000 die from those reactions, making drug side effects the sixth most common cause of death in this country! Legal drugs kill more people per year than all illegal drugs combined.
People expect me and want me to argue against vivisection on a purely scientific basis. I can do that. However, I cannot and will not forgo the ethical argument. For when all is said and done, I believe that research on animals is ethically wrong, and that nothing "good" can ever come out of something so morally debased.
I often cite the hypothermia experiments done on Jews in the concentration camps during World War II. This experimentation on helpless, non-consenting humans who suffered and died as a result of these experiments actually taught scientists a great deal about treating hypothermia in humans. But was it right? I would argue that it was absolutely wrong, no matter how much useful information we garnered.
Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help you answer.
18. What aspect of animal experimentation does the professor mainly discuss?
19. What does the professor say about animal experimentation?
20. What is the evidence to deny animal experimentation?
Listen again to part of the lecture. Then answer the question.
Professor
Do you really want to help make animal experimentation a memory? Then become a scientist and develop alternative disease models and non-animal based remedies and then make your research widely available to other scientists.
21. What does the professor imply when he says this?
Professor
Do you really want to help make animal experimentation a memory?
22. Why does the professor say this?
Professor
For when all is said and done, I believe that research on animals is ethically wrong, and that nothing "good" can ever come out of something so morally debased.
23. How does the professor remind students of the cruelness of animal experimentation?
选项
A、Ask students whether they are willing to do something for animals.
B、Some measures should be introduced to stop animal experimentation.
C、The students should pay attention to his question and try to answer it.
D、He wants to find out whether the students care about this issue.
答案
B
解析
本题为功能题,考查考生对听力材料的语用理解,即对说话者目的的理解。题目问:教授说“你真的想让动物实验成为一种回忆”的含义是什么?根据他的提问和下文所说的内容,可以判断他的目的是要提倡采取别的方法来进行实验,从而停止动物实验,所以选B。
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