The usual answer to these criticisms is that animals do not suffer in the same way, or to the same extent, as we de. Man was created with a delicate nervous system and has never lost his acute sensitiveness to pain; animals, on the other hand, had less sensitive systems to begin with and in the course of millions of years, have developed a capacity of ignoring injuries and disorders which human beings would find intolerable. For example, a dog will continue to play with a ball even after a serious injury to his foot; he may be unable to run without limping, but he will go on trying long after a human child would have had to stop because of the pain. We are told, moreover, that even when animals appear to us to be suffering acutely, this is not so; what seems to us to be agonized contortions caused by pain are in fact no more than muscular contractions over which they have no control.

　　6. Animal-lovers assume that animals, being hunted, would suffer from ____.

　　A) a great deal of agony both in body and in spirit

　　B) mental distress once they are wounded

　　C) only body pains without feeling sad

　　D) crawling into the comer to die

　　7. Supporters of game shooting may argue that animals ______.

　　A) cannot control their muscular contractions

　　B) have developed a capacity of feeling no pain

　　C) are not as acutely sensitive as human beings to injuries

　　D) can endure all kinds of disorders.(examda)

　　8. The author feels sure that _____.

　　A) animals don't show suffering to us

　　B) dogs are more endurable than human children

　　C) we cannot know what animals feel

　　D) comparing animals with human beings is not appropriate

　　9. What is the author's opinion about animal hunting?

　　A) We should feel the same as the hunted animals do.

　　B) We should protect and save all the animals.

　　C) We shouldn't cause suffering to them.

　　D) We should take care of them if we can.

　　10. This passage seems to ____.

　　A) argue for something

　　B) explain something

　　C) tell a story

　　D) describe an object