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20090~2010学年 第2 学期 西安交通大学研究生 《高级英语写作》期末考试试题 (B) 姓名 学 号 英语班号 考场 所在院系 考试日期 PartI:Summarywriting(40points) Readthefollowingarticlecarefully,andthenwriteasummaryinabout200words Themost commonlyheldperceptionregarding animalexperimentationisthatitisnecessary for the development of vaccines, cures and treatments for human illness Proponents ask the important question, what will happen to research onAIDS, heart disease, and cancer if animal experimentation is completely stopped?Will the progress in cures andtreatments forthese types ofillnessesalsocometoahalt? There is a growing movement of healthcare professionals including doctors, scientists, and educatedmembersofthepublicwhoareopposedtonon-human animal-basedexperimentationon specifically medical and scientific grounds They argue that animal research is based on a false premise,thatresultsobtainedthroughanimalexperimentationcanbeappliedtothehumanbody Animalsnotonlyreactdifferentlythanhumanstodifferentdrugs,vaccines,andexperiments, theyalsoreactdifferentlyfromoneanother Ignoringthis differencehasbeenandcontinuestobe verycostlytohumanhealth Themostfamous exampleofthedangersofanimaltestingisthe Thalidomidetragedyofthe 1960s and 1970s. Thalidomide, which came out on the German market late in the 1950s, had previously beensafely testedonthousandsofanimals.Itwasmarketedasawonderfulsedativefor pregnant or breastfeeding mothers and itsupposedly caused no harm to either mother or child. Despite this safetytesting,atleast10,000childrenwhosemothershadtaken Thalidomidewere bornthroughouttheworldwithseveredeformities Clioquinolisanotherexampleofadrugthatwassafety testedinanimalsandhadaseverely negative impact on humans. This drug, manufactured in Japan in the 1970s, w