首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
We have known the elephants, the greatest land mammal of them all—highly sensitive, intelligent, family-oriented, big-toothed cr
We have known the elephants, the greatest land mammal of them all—highly sensitive, intelligent, family-oriented, big-toothed cr
admin
2018-08-25
31
问题
We have known the elephants, the greatest land mammal of them all—highly sensitive, intelligent, family-oriented, big-toothed creatures—for a very long time, and they have known us. It has been a tortuous relationship, and one that is still evolving. 【T1】
We have looked up to elephants as gods, but killed them for their ivory, and captured and enslaved them to be our beasts of burden in work and war, and for our entertainment.
Earlier this month, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced that it had decided to phase elephants out of its public spectacles, retiring its remaining forty-three working elephants to a park it owns in Florida, where twenty-nine elephants already live. 【T2】
The decision follows years of pressure from animal-rights groups, and is part of a trend that has been gathering strength for years.
Most other circuses in the United States and Western Europe have stopped using the animals because the routine use of prods, cages, and chains, both to transport elephants and to force their obedience, has come to be seen by growing numbers of people, including circus goers, as cruel.
The Ringling news is striking. 【T3】
In our gradual awakening to the idea that we must protect the elephant from enslavement and cruelty, it may be possible to hear echoes of other dawnings of conscience.
As someone born at a time of widespread consensus that human slavery was one of history’s most despicable and shameful practices, 【T4】
I’ve always been intrigued by the realization that, during the life of my great-great-grandfather, there were a significant number of otherwise intelligent and sensitive white Americans and Europeans who apparently did not see it that way.
And then I recall the excitement that I felt at going to the circus as a child. There were at least flashes of discomfort when I watched as trainers used prods to make elephants hold each other’s tails with their trunks and sway back and forth to music, or shouted commands for them to kneel, to put their bottoms in the air. But, in the end, 【T5】
the spectacle, the noisy excitement of the crowds, and the presence of grownups all signaled an acceptance of things as they were, and one’s awareness of the elephants’ humiliation became somehow less acute.
As an adult, it has been easier to perceive the treatment of circus elephants for what it is: cruel.
【T2】
选项
答案
这项决定是动物权益组织多年来施压的结果。也反映了近年来力量渐盛的一种趋势。
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/mYRd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Sincethe【21】______oftheNationalEnvironmentalPoliciesActin1969,theUnitedStatesCongress,legislatureatthefede
Sincethe【21】______oftheNationalEnvironmentalPoliciesActin1969,theUnitedStatesCongress,legislatureatthefede
Theauthorsattributeeachtower’scollapsetothreeseparatebutrelated"loadingevents".61)ThefirsteventwasaBoeingair
Applecomputerintroduceditspioneering,user-friendlyMackintoshcomputerin1984.The"Mac"quicklybecamepopularandappeare
Kuwaitisacountry______.
Industrial【21】______doesnotjusthappen.Companies【22】______lowaccidentratesplantheirsafetyprograms,workhard
Industrial【21】______doesnotjusthappen.Companies【22】______lowaccidentratesplantheirsafetyprograms,workhard
Thegovernmentistobanpaymentstowitnessesbynewspapersseekingtobuyuppeopleinvolvedinprominentcases【21】______
HowlongdidEmilyDickinsonliveinthehousewhereshewasborn?
HowlongdidEmilyDickinsonliveinthehousewhereshewasborn?______
随机试题
在切除阑尾时发现有Meckel憩室。采用以下哪项治疗方案
慢性胃窦炎主要病因是
某护士在临床带教老师的指导下,正在进行无菌技术操作,其任务是铺无菌盘及戴消毒手套。铺好的无菌盘有效期不得超过
茯苓与薏苡仁的共同功效是
外科急诊不适合作内镜检查的是
培养学生抗诱惑力,教师可采用的措施有()。
新华社2006年3月27受权发布的《国务院关于解决农民工问题的若干意见》指出,农民工问题事关我国经济和社会发展全局,(),是需要解决的突出问题。解决农民工问题是建设中国特色社会主义的战略任务。
某商店规定每4个空啤酒瓶可以换1瓶啤酒,小明家买了24瓶啤酒,他家前后最多能喝到多少瓶啤酒?
ABC公司2012年12月31日有关资料如表2—3—2所示:2012年度公司销售收入为4000万元,所得税率30%,实现净利润100万元,分配股利60万元;公司期末股数100万股,每股面值1元。要求:回答下列互不相关的问题
社会公德最基本的要求是
最新回复
(
0
)