新世纪研究生公共英语教材阅读 B Unit 921.ppt

Unit Nine Animal Emotions Warm-up Group discussion: What’s your opinion of keeping pets? Background Information Among the animals with backbones, there are five main groups--fish, amphibians 两栖动物, reptiles 爬虫动物, birds and mammals. Each major group is made up of smaller groups. Among the mammals, for example, the smaller groups include the pouched有袋的 mammals, the rodents 啮齿动物and the primates 灵长类动物 (monkeys, apes and man). These pictures below show that some of the faces a chimpanzee can pull might be confusing to human beings. Background information Text Learning Do all the scientists or researchers agree with each other on animal emotions? No. The idea of animals emotions remains controversial among many scientists. Text Learning How many types of emotions are mentioned in the text? Fear Pleasure Grief Text Learning Scientific evidence for animal feelings Similarities between the brains of animals and other animals and emotional regions conserved across many species throughout evolution Emotional site: amygdala (fear) Recent studies of brain chemistry (dopamine, opiates) associated with pleasure and excitement The hormone oxytocin (sexual activity and maternal bonding) The theory of evolution Text Learning Why is it necessary to study animal emotions? Interaction between humans and animals Treatment of animals by humans Text Learning Animals can feel intense, humanlike emotions. A grief-stricken chimpanzee Leviathans in love The plural of anecdote of pets Animals have no emotions Professional aversion to anthropomorphism Impossible to prove animals have emotions using standard scientific methods Fear is instinctive Assignment Review Unit Nine Preview Unit Ten exercise Translation Practice 来美国求学的中国学生与其他亚裔学生一样，大多非常刻苦勤奋，周末也往往会抽出一天甚至两天的时间去实验室加班，因而比起美国学生来，成果出得较多。我的导师是亚裔人，嗜烟好酒，脾气暴躁。但他十分欣赏亚裔学生勤奋与扎实的基础知识，也特别了解亚裔学生的心理。因此，在他实验室所招的学生中，除有一名来自德国外，其余5位均是亚裔学生。 Translation Practice Like students from other Asian countries and regions, most Chinese students who come