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
READING3
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.Researchers at 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 cat’s 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
READING3
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.People’s 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 Ton y’s 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 Tony’s 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