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期数： 0512 YYG3 053
学科：英语 年级：高三 编稿老师：徐 卓
审稿老师：孔 军
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Unit 14 Zoology

I. Background Information
China drafts, revises laws to safeguard animal welfare
China is pressing on with drafting and revising laws to safeguard the welfare of poultry and livestock and to ensure food security and public health as the bird flu problem has aroused the worldwide attention.
A new law on stock farming is being drafted and the existing law on animal epidemic prevention is being revised, said Assistant Minister of Commerce Huang Hai on Thursday.
But, he did not give more details about the drafting of the new law and the revision of the existing law.
"Animal welfare is closely connected with food security and public health," Huang told an international forum on animal welfare and meat product security held in Beijing.
Currently, incessant bird flu cases have triggered great concern around the world.
"The bird flu that happened in some provinces in China last week has been brought under control and no cases of human infection have been reported," said Chen Xianyi, director of the Emergency Office under China's Ministry of Health.
Some European experts asserted that bird flu was connected with the improper breeding of birds and poultry.
"The swine streptococosis endemic, a pig-borne disease, which took place in southwest China's Sichuan Province this July was found to have direct links with the foul environment for raising pigs," Huang said.
A total of 204 human infection cases were reported in the pig-borne epidemic, leaving about 40 people dead.
"To safeguard animal welfare is not only a demonstration of progress of human civilization and humanitarian spirit, but also closely linked with the health of the human beings," he said.
It is universally acknowledged that such things are basic for safeguarding animal welfare as offering a favorable living environment and breeding condition for animals, satisfying their physiological and instinct demands, and avoiding making them feel pain and fright when transporting and slaughtering them.
Animal welfare is by no means exclusive to the western countries - the idea has long been existed in traditional Chinese culture, said Donald Broom, chairman of the Council of Europe Farm Animal Protection Committee.
"No matter the idea of benevolence held by the Confucianism or the tradition of protecting living things in Buddhism, they all show the concerns about the little creatures," said Broom, also a professor at Cambridge University.
As modern animal husbandry provides rich food varieties for humans, the public is becoming increasingly fearful about food security.
Earlier, mad cow triggered more than 8 billion US dollars of trade loss in Britain. Foot-and-mouth disease occurred in Europe from 2001 to 2003 and caused the killing of nearly 1 million heads of livestock and also, billions of dollars of economic loss.
The bird flu outbreaks since 2004 have brought disaster to 16 countries and regions. According to incomplete figures, at least 384,000 birds or poultry have been infected, nearly 463,000 have died, and more than 140 million have been slaughtered. The resultant economic and social losses are complex and yet to be calculated.
"A little bit of carelessness could bring about a deadly strike by a certain animal disease on the animal husbandry of a certain region, and the ensuing food security issues will then threaten public health," said Li Yuanping, director of the Imports and Exports Food Security Department with the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
Statistics show that China reported 600 million pigs, 300 million sheep, 50 million cattle and 1.2 billion poultry in 2004, and in the global meat production, China's pork and mutton production ranked No.1 in the world; poultry meat, No.2; and beef, No. 3.
To a large country of livestock and poultry and a large country that slaughters and processes like China, it has unusual meaning to heed the issue of animal welfare, said Joyce D'silva, chief executive officer of the Compassion in World farming.
"As society progresses and becomes more civilized, animal welfare has become an important criterion for testing the level of a nation's civilization as well as an important condition for carrying out international trade," said Song Wei, director of the teaching research office of the Business School of the University of Science and Technology of China.

II. Language Pints on Warming-up, Listening and Speaking Sections
1. restate重申，重诉
restate one's opinion 重申某人的观点
restate one's argument 重申某人的论点
2. tell... apart 识别，辨别
Can you tell Jane and Lucy apart? For they look so alike.
你能区别开简和露丝吗？她们长得太像了。
tell A from B 把 A与B区别开
Can you tell Tom from his twin brother?
你能把汤姆和他的双胞胎哥哥区别开吗？
It's difficult for us to tell Lily from Lucy. 我们很难区分开莉莉和露丝。
3. troop
（1）一群，大量
A troop of children went into the Museum.
一群学生走进了博物馆。
troops 军队，部队
The local people demanded the withdrawal of the foreign country troops.
当地的人们要求外国军队撤离。
（2）集合，群集；成群地涌向，结队而行
Children trooped out of the hall after the lecture.
演讲结束后，孩子们成群地走出了教室。
The students trooped up on the sports ground.
学生们在操场上集合。
III. Exercises
用动词的适当正式填空
1. This is the best way ____(lead) to success.
2. It's at the school ____(name) after the hero that he is studying.
3._____(compare) to that book, this one is of great value.
4. Some waste must be thrown into the sea,____(depend) on the nature of the waste.
5. The only ____(remain) question is whether or not we can collect enough money for wildlife.
6. The boy is an ____(advance) child.
7. Our plane will ____ tomorrow.
8. Selecting a mobile phone for personal use is not a easy task because technology ____(change) so rapidly.
Keys:
1. leading 2. named 3. Compared 4. depending 5. remaining
6. advanced 7. be flying 8. is changing

用适当的介词或副词填空。
1. The twins are so much alike that their own mother can hardly tell them ________.
2. New facts about the ancient Egypt has recently come ________ light.
3. If you want to catch up with them, you’d better make a beeline ________ them.
4. ________ his astonishment, he was turned down when asked for the job.
5. He invented a telescope ________ which he could observe the sky.
6. At the meeting as unexpected questions come ________.
7. The old house handed down for several generations belonged ________ him.
8. Compared ________ many women, she was indeed very fortunate.
9. The telescope he invented is ________ great importance.
10. We’d better keep ________ touch with each other after graduation.
Keys:
apart 2. to 3. for 4. To 5. with 6. up 7. to 8. to 9. of 10. in