英语阅读4第1课教学文稿.ppt

英语阅读4第1课;READING 1 CHECK YOUR VOCABULARY B Many children at first refuse to eat animal flesh. They later become used to eating it just because their parents try hard to 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. Picture books 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 want to let their children know about the gruesome side of the story, as they are afraid their children will refuse to eat meat at meals. Unfortunately, non-vegetarian parents will strongly disapprove of their children’s unwillingness to eat meat. ;READING 2 CHECK YOUR COMPREHENSION B He calls himself “the enemy of animals---wicked and inhumane scientist” who experiments on animals. A. test on animals for new medical treatments for human injuries/diseases; B. experiment on human beings; C. depending on accidental discoveries for medical advances; D. using computer models to substitute animal experiments. There will be no medical advances: discoveries of drugs and surgical techniques will not be possible. Certain biological processes will remain a mystery to us. He refers to the animal activists. He believes that they make a lot of protests, and therefore they are considered “vocal.” he also thinks that there is just a small number of animal activists, and therefore they are considered to be “a minority.” Other expressions: insulated from the reality of human life, radical, misdirected. ;READING 2 CHECK YOUR VOCABULARY A Tips the scales Misdirected Alleviate Simulation Potent Arouse Placate Apathetic Therapy Alternative Expedient Vilified ;READING 3 CHECK YOUR COMPREHENSION A Their attitude is rather radical. They oppose the use of animal research in any conditions, and they want everybody to stop conducting r