《新视野英语知识讲义》book4unit8a课件.docVIP

Unit?8 Text A??Reading in detail Read the text in detail. You can refer to Translation and Language Points when necessary. play stop mute max volume 00:00 00:00 A+ ? A- ? Language points ? Translation ?A meaningful life 1?The death of an?angel?of animal rights activism does not rate with that of a drugged-out rock star.?So when?Henry Spira?died of cancer in September 1998, his death passed without notice, apart from a briefobituary?in?The New York Times.?Yet Henry Spiras life tells us something important, not only about the modern animal movement, but about the possibility of an individual making a difference in the modern world. 2?I first met Henry when he turned up at an adult education?seminar?I was giving at?New York University.?I offered a course on Animal Liberation that attracted about 20 students.?One student was an unusual?specimen, outside the regular aesthetic of an animal person.?His clothes were untidy, and his hair uncombed.?His language was so blunt and earthy that at times I thought I was listening to an?assassinfrom a violent mob.?Yet, I couldnt help feeling intrigued with his direct way of speaking and his solemn,?secular?oath?to help animals in need. 3 I left New York soon after that, but one day got a call from Henry.?He talked with me about his work.?I knew that for over a century, the animal rights movement had been putting out?graphic?brochures,leaflets, and?audio?propaganda, alerting people to the dreadful experiments on animals.?But in all that time, the number of animals used in experiments had risen from a small?batch?of a few hundred to more than 30 million.?No activist had managed to stop a single experiment or improve the lives of animals living in tiny, constricted?enclosures.Henry changed that.?One of his earliest campaigns permanently closed down a laboratory conducting experiments with toxic?vapor?on about 60 rabbits. 4 Following that success, Henry rapidly moved on to bigger targets.?He laid?siege?to Revlon over their use of rab