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Information Related to the Text |  Explaining the Title |  Writing Skill |  Warm-up Activity |  Text  |  Warm-up Activity 1. What’s the author’s argument? It is not right to kill or mutilate animals for pure intellectual curiosity. Intellectual curiosity means the pursuit of knowledge. 2. What has led the author to the assertion that human beings are killing animals for pure intellectual curiosity? The unnecessary experiment on the penguin. ( paragraph 2 to 6). Unnecessary here means that the outcome of the scientific experiment is quite similar to the conclusion drawn by the average TV viewer. 3. How does the author argue? By making a comparison between children’s motive and scientists’ motive in killing and mutilating animals; both children and scientists try to satisfy their curiosity about how creatures move; children’s motive is selfish while scientists work for the advancement of human knowledge, i.e. to satisfy collective curiosity, therefore they are justified , but they may work for other purposes. 4. Is the author against all animal experiments? No. The author is not against all animal experiments. But the author is against killing or mutilating animals for pure intellectual curiosity.

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