Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:
Protests at the use of animals in research have taken on a new and fearful character in
Britain with the attempted murder of two British scientists by the terrorist technique of the pre
- planted car- bomb.
The research community will rightly be alarmed at these developments, which have two
objectives: to arouse public attention and to frighten people working in research with animals.
The first need is that everything should be done to identify those responsible for the crimes and
to put them on trial. The Detence Research Society has taken the practical step of offering a re-
ward of $10,000 for information leading to those responsible, but past experience is not encouraging. People are unlikely to be tempted by such offers. The professional police will similarly be contronted by the usual problem of finding a needle in a haystack.
That is why the intellectual (知識分子) community in Britain and elsewhere must act
more vigorously in its own detence. There are several steps that can be taken of which the chief
one is to demand of all the organizations that exist with the declared objectives of safeguarding
the interests of animals that they should declare clearly where they stand on violence towards
people. And it will not be enough for the chairmen and chairwomen of these organizations to utter placatory(安撫的) statements on behalf of all their members. These people should also undertake that it will be a test of continuing membership in their organizations that members and
would -be members should declare that they will take no part in acts of violence against human
beings. Even such undertakings would not be fully effective; people, after all, can lie. But at least
they would distinguish the organizations entitled to a continuing voice in the dialogue with the
research community about the rights of animals in research from the organizations that deserve
no say.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:
Protests at the use of animals in research have taken on a new and fearful character in
Britain with the attempted murder of two British scientists by the terrorist technique of the pre
- planted car- bomb.
The research community will rightly be alarmed at these developments, which have two
objectives: to arouse public attention and to frighten people working in research with animals.
The first need is that everything should be done to identify those responsible for the crimes and
to put them on trial. The Detence Research Society has taken the practical step of offering a re-
ward of $10,000 for information leading to those responsible, but past experience is not encouraging. People are unlikely to be tempted by such offers. The professional police will similarly be contronted by the usual problem of finding a needle in a haystack.
That is why the intellectual (知識分子) community in Britain and elsewhere must act
more vigorously in its own detence. There are several steps that can be taken of which the chief
one is to demand of all the organizations that exist with the declared objectives of safeguarding
the interests of animals that they should declare clearly where they stand on violence towards
people. And it will not be enough for the chairmen and chairwomen of these organizations to utter placatory(安撫的) statements on behalf of all their members. These people should also undertake that it will be a test of continuing membership in their organizations that members and
would -be members should declare that they will take no part in acts of violence against human
beings. Even such undertakings would not be fully effective; people, after all, can lie. But at least
they would distinguish the organizations entitled to a continuing voice in the dialogue with the
research community about the rights of animals in research from the organizations that deserve
no say.