Текст 2 . Текст 4 Do animals matter?

Текст 2

The British support over 380 charities and societies which aim to protect animals. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals provides practical help to animals in homes, hospitals and clinics. It also campaigns against animal cruelty. The Bransby Home of Rest for Horses looks after horses, ponies and donkeys. The International Fund for Animal Welfare campaigns to stop cruelty in different parts of the world. Lynx works against the fur trade. The Animal Liberation Fund attacks people and places which do experiments on animals.

Текст 3. .. One night, returning home, much intoxicated, from one of my haunts about town, I fancied that the cat avoided my presence. I seized him when, in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth. The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame. I took from my waistcoat pocket a penknife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket! I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.

When reason returned with the morning when I had slept off the fumes of the night's debauch I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched. I again plunged into excess, and soon drowned in wine all memory of the deed...

(Edgar Allan Рое, " The Black Cat" )

Текст 4 Do animals matter?

We know about and can give names to about one million animals. But there are more than thirty million species of animal in the world. Every year some of these species disappear and we never see them again. But with thirty million different species, do one or two matter? Different people give different answers to this question, but more and more people are saying, 'Of course they do -they are all important!! - So* why do people think that?

One answer is this: animals make the world a richer place, a more interesting and a more beautiful place for us to live in. Secondly, animals help us in many important ways. They give us meat to eat and milk to drink, and we can make things to wear from their coats. Scientists learn a lot from animals and this helps them to understand people. Doctors take things from animals, alive or dead, to help ill people. Thirdly, it is natural for us to protect animals because we are animals too. Many of these living things are in danger. Without our help, a lot more animals are going to die. People and animals live in one world. Our land is their land; our trees are their trees; our rivers are their rivers. We want to protect animals because at the same time we are protecting our world.

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