考研英语真题阅读理解试题及名师解析(15).txt

英语真题阅读理解试题及名师解析(15)
To paraphrase 18th-century statesman
Edmund Burke,“all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided
cause is that good people do nothing.”One such cause now seeks to
end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have
rights ruling out their use in research. Scientists need to respond
forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are
confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health
knowledge and care. Leaders of the animal rights movement target
biomedical research because it depends on public funding, and few
people understand the process of health care research. Hearing
allegations of cruelty to animals in research settings, many are
perplexed that anyone would deliberately harm an animal.
For example, a grandmotherly woman
staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was
distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything
es from or is animals-no meat , no fur, no medicines, Asked
if she opposed immunizations, she wanted to know if e
from animal research. When assured that they do, she replied, “Then
I would have to say yes.” Asked what will happen when epidemics
return, she said, “ Don’t worry, scientists will find some way of
puters.” Such well-meaning people just don't
understand.
Scientists municate their
message to the public in passionate, understandable way-i