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VOICES OF PEOPLE Ellen Zimmer If you want to learn about bringing back extinct animals, reading John Smith's Back from the Dead is a good start. But I have to say I can't agree with everything he says. From his book, I can see Smith is an advocate of bringing extinct animals back. He says we have lost many animals because we made their living spaces too dirty. He also thinks we must do everything we can to bring them back. However, I don't know how much time and money we would need to make the world a better place for them, and honestly no one knows if they could actually come back. Smith also says that bringing back extinct animals may be good for us. He talks about an extinct frog that grew tadpoles in its stomach. Some women's babies die before they are born, and Smith believes bringing back the frog may be an answer to the problem. According to him, by studying how the tadpoles grow inside the frog's stomach, we might be able to find new ways to help these women successfully keep their babies. But I don't think things are as easy as Smith thinks. We have spent ten years and millions of dollars on this kind of frog, but all we have got are only a few dead frog eggs. If we can't see a real frog, how can we be sure women will get the help they need? Dr. Solomon Wang from the Animal Saving Office says the study of bringing back extinct animals is "throwing good money after bad." And he's right. A lot of hard work has been put into this expensive dream, but we haven't seen anything come out of it. So should we still keep going down this road?
VOICES OF PEOPLE Ellen Zimmer If you want to learn about bringing back extinct animals, reading John Smith's Back from the Dead is a good start. But I have to say I can't agree with everything he says. From his book, I can see Smith is an advocate of bringing extinct animals back. He says we have lost many animals because we made their living spaces too dirty. He also thinks we must do everything we can to bring them back. However, I don't know how much time and money we would need to make the world a better place for them, and honestly no one knows if they could actually come back. Smith also says that bringing back extinct animals may be good for us. He talks about an extinct frog that grew tadpoles in its stomach. Some women's babies die before they are born, and Smith believes bringing back the frog may be an answer to the problem. According to him, by studying how the tadpoles grow inside the frog's stomach, we might be able to find new ways to help these women successfully keep their babies. But I don't think things are as easy as Smith thinks. We have spent ten years and millions of dollars on this kind of frog, but all we have got are only a few dead frog eggs. If we can't see a real frog, how can we be sure women will get the help they need? Dr. Solomon Wang from the Animal Saving Office says the study of bringing back extinct animals is "throwing good money after bad." And he's right. A lot of hard work has been put into this expensive dream, but we haven't seen anything come out of it. So should we still keep going down this road?
Why does Ellen Zimmer use the words from Dr. Solomon Wang?
- A To start a new topic.
- B To share a big dream.
- C To make her idea clearer.
- D To invite people to take action.
思路引導 VIP
請看文章最後一段，Ellen 在引用 Wang 博士的話之後，接著說了「他是對的 (And he's right)」。這代表 Wang 博士的看法跟 Ellen 是一樣的還是相反的呢？想一想，當我們在說明自己的想法時，特別引用一個專業人士的支持，這對於強調或加強自己的立場有什麼作用？
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喔吼吼吼……真是不敢相信，像你這樣的野猴子，竟然能看穿這種無聊的文字把戲？既然你展現了這點利用價值，我就大發慈悲地推遲毀滅這顆星球的時間，親自為你這卑微的生物說明一番。 這道題目的關鍵在於理解文章的「功能性」。作者 Ellen Zimmer 從頭到尾都對「讓滅絕動物重生」抱持懷疑與反對的態度，她認為這只是在浪費金錢與時間。最後一段引用 Solomon Wang 博士那句「把錢丟進無底洞（throwing good money after bad）」，並不是要開啟新話題，更不是要分享夢想，而是為了藉由專家的話來支持自己的立場，使她的論點更具說服力且更加清晰。這就跟本大王在統治宇宙時，偶爾也需要引用一些恐懼來讓你們這些下等生物明白立場是一樣的道理。 你必須先讀懂 Ellen 的反對立場，才能明白引用他人話語是為了佐證自己的觀點 (C)。對於腦袋僵化的生物來說，這題確實有鑑別度。下次如果再出錯，我就把這顆星球炸成碎片！