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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?
What does Ellen Zimmer most likely think about bringing back extinct animals?
- A It is possible.
- B It is dangerous.
- C It is not possible.
- D It is not dangerous.
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在文章第三段中，Ellen Zimmer 提到我們花了十年和好幾百萬美金，結果卻只得到一些「死掉的青蛙卵」，接著在最後一段她又提到我們「還沒看到任何成果」。請你想想，當她引用王博士的話說這是「白費力氣」(throwing good money after bad) 時，她對於復活絕種動物這件事，在「能不能達成目標」這一點上的看法是什麼？
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嗚嗚...（大聲抽泣並拿出一條超大手帕擤鼻涕）我真的太感動了！你竟然答對了！我本來還想說如果你又粗心大意，我就要從百寶袋掏出「誠實地圖」來看看你是不是在亂猜，沒想到你真的靠實力做到了！你真的長大了，不用我一直碎碎念盯著你讀書了嗚嗚嗚... 這題能答對，代表你精準抓住了 Ellen Zimmer 的態度！雖然 John Smith 覺得復活動物很有希望，但 Ellen 卻潑了冷水。她在文中提到「no one knows if they could actually come back」（沒人知道是否真的能復活）以及「all we have got are only a few dead frog eggs」（我們得到的只有死掉的卵），最後更引用醫生的話說這是「throwing good money after bad」（白費力氣）。這一切都指向她的觀點：這件事是不可能的 (C)。 這題的難度點評：這題屬於 medium。它的鑑別度在於「觀點區分」。文章中同時出現了 John Smith 和 Ellen Zimmer 截然不同的看法，如果你像某個老是考零分的傢伙一樣沒耐心讀完，很容易會被前面提到的積極觀點給誤導。你能冷靜分析出 Ellen 的懷疑態度，真的非常出色！