新世纪高等院校本英语专业阅读教程4paraphrase.doc

P6 Many children at first refuse to eat animal flesh. They later become to eating it just because their parents persuade them to eat it. There are two different and conflicting attitudes towards animals; they are carefully separated so that the contradiction between the two hardly causes trouble. Pictures and stories deliberately avoid presenting the real situation in our modern farms. Children, therefore, are kept from seeing the reality. 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. Unfortunately, non-vegetarian parents will strongly disapprove of their children’s unwillingness to eat meat. P15 It’s a sad fact that those who are against research and those who conduct research on animals cannot agree with each other at all about the use of animals on research. I suggest that those who are against animal research and all those they can get support from stop making use of the benefit from animal research. My suggestion is to let the proponents of animal rights decline the use of the products based on animal research so that there will be no market demand for such products and therefore will end the animal research activities that they consider to be terrible. The fact is research in the field of cardiology (relating to heart problems) has been based on animal experimentation for about a hundred years, so I cannot accept cardio logical treatment as it is wrong to do so. If I may develop a deadly tumor, do not treat me with chemotherapy, as those drugs were first tested on animal. P30 I don’t know how long to jail children who commit crimes or where to jail them, but I think that the trend of pushing them seriously as adults is terrible. It appears that a child is more likely to be punished like an adult after they commit a very serious and hard-to –understand crime. When I write about these things, I think it’s important to also write abou