問題詳情
This green and blue planet spinning in space is under severe stress. If wecontinue to exploit the planet at the present rate,human and animal life will bethreatened. Human pride will be followed by nature’s punishment. To save our earthand ourselves,we need first develop an unbiased understanding of ourselves,natureand life.Everyone understands the meaning of the sentence“Man should respect animal life andnature”. But the exact meaning of man,nature and animal life is not always clear.Many refer to man and animals as if they were essentially different. I consider manto be an animal and only differing in degree and not in kind from other animals.Although I discuss in conventional terms human rights and animal rights as if theywere separate,strictly speaking,human rights should be considered a branch of animalrights.The word“nature”is one of the most complex words in the language,but it hasdeveloped three main areas of meaning. These are,first,the essential quality andcharacter of something（as in human nature,or the nature of wood）;second,theinherent force which influences the world（as in Mother Nature）;third,the entireworld itself. The last can be taken to include or to exclude human beings,as thephrase man and the natural world implies.I consider humans to be an integral part of nature, although they are also thebeings most capable of interfering with its processes.Unfortunately a centraldriveof Western“man”has been to conquer“nature”, as if it were an objectseparate from him.Hence it has become common to distinguish between what isnatural（existing without man’s interference）and artificial（manmade）.In thisway, natural growth is opposed to education, civilization to the natural state.Formanyurban people living permanently among concrete and glass, nature itself hascome to mean little more than the countryside.And this notion of opposition iswhere the seed of potential destruction lies.
【題組】31. The word“unbiased”in Line 4 of Para.1 means ______.
(A).unbalanced
(B).fair
(C).partial
(D).unreasonable
參考答案
答案：B
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)