文档介绍：Text A Exercises
Reading Aloud
Understanding the Text
Reading Analysis
Vocabulary
Structure
Translation
TA-main
Read the following paragraphs until you have learned them by heart.
“I like animals,” I added, “because they only take out of life what they need. They don’t abuse their environment, pollute their water and the air they breathe. They don’t build weapons of mass destruction and use them against others — particularly members of their own species. I like animals because they have no use for those things.”
“I also like animals,” I continued, “because they don’t dwell on things of the past, nor use them as excuses for behavior in the present. And they don’t plan to live some day in the future; they live today, this moment, fully, completely, and purely. I like animals because they live their lives with so much more freedom than humans live theirs.”
Read the following
Reading Aloud
Answer the following questions
Understandling-Answer
Why does the writer like animals? How did her family expect her to answer this question?
2. Why does the writer say that animals are honest?
3. When did this conversation take place?
4. According to the writer, how do animals treat the environment?
5. What difference lies between the writer and her sister as to why animals don’t do those harmful things mentioned earlier?
6. According to the writer, what is the animals’ attitude towards life?
7. How does the writer’s cousin explain that animals live a freer life than humans?
Understanding the Text
Topics for Discussion.
Do you agree with the writer’s statement “Animals — not humans — are the best this has to offer?” Give your reasons.
What rights do you think animals should have?
Topics-1
8. How did the family members respond to the conversation?
9. According to the writer, what do we humans do to animals?
10. What is the conclusion that the writer draws about animals?
11. Do her family members disagree with her? How did they respond to her talk?
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