2003全国硕士研究生入学考试英语试题
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To paraphra 18th-century statesman Edmund Burke, “all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cau is that good people do nothing.” One such cau now eks to end biomedical rearch becau of the theory that animals have rights ruling out their u in rearch. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, who arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health knowledge and care. Leaders of the animal rights movement target biomedical rearch becau it depends on public funding, and few people understand the process of health care rearch. Hearing allegations of cruelty to animals in rearch ttings, 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 u anything that comes from or is tested in animals—no meat, no fur, no medicines. Asked if she oppod immunizations, s
he wanted to know if vaccines come from animal rearch. When assured that they do, she replied, “Then I would have to say yes.” Asked what will happen when epidemics return, she said, “Don’t worry, scientists will find some way of using computers.” Such well-meaning people just don’t understand.
Scientists must communicate their message to the public in a compassionate, understandable way -- in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology. We need to make clear the connection between animal rearch and a grandmother’s hip replacement, a father’s bypass operation, a baby’s vaccinations, and even a pet’s shots. To tho who are unaware that animal rearch was needed to produce the treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal rearch ems wasteful at best and cruel at worst.
Much can be done. Scientists could “adopt” middle school class and prent their own rearch. They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor, lest animal rights misinformation go unchallenged and acquire a deceptive appearance of truth. Rearch ildy lickem
nstitutions could be opened to tours, to show that laboratory animals receive humane care. Finally, becau the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health rearch community should actively recruit to its cau not only well-known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal rearch, but all who receive medical treatment. If good people do nothing, there is a real possibility that an uninformed citizenry will extinguish the precious embers of medical progress.
46. incredibleThe author begins his article with Edmund Burke’s words to ________.
[A] call on scientists to take some actionstemptations
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[B] criticize the misguided cau of animal rights
[C] warn of the doom of biomedical rearch
[D] show the triumph of the animal rights movement一方什么
47. Misled people tend to think that using an animal in rearch is ________.
东莞电子商务[A] cruel but natural
[B] inhuman and unacceptable
[C] inevitable but vicious
[D] pointless and wasteful
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[A] discontent with animal rearch
[B] ignorance about medical science
[C] indifference to epidemics
[D] anxiety about animal rights
49. The author believes that, in face of the challenge from animal rights advocates,
scientists should ________.
[A] communicate more with the public
inside out[B] employ hi-tech means in rearch
[C] feel no shame for their cau
适用于英文[D] strive to develop new cures
50.ffc From the text we learn that Stephen Cooper is ________.
[A] a well-known humanist
[B] a medical practitioner
[C] an enthusiast in animal rights
[D] a supporter of animal rearch
