PART A
Reading Skills
Discursive Passage
Passage 1
1. Read the passage carefully. On the basis of your
reading. answer the given questions:
(Para-1)The food industry is one of the biggest exploiters
of animals and is responsible for masssuffering and death.
Every year, tens of billions of animals are killed for food, and
most endure lives of constant fear and torment. Nearly all
the animal raised for food in America today are separated
from their families and crammed by the thousands into
filthy warehouses, where they spend their entire lives in
abysmally filthy conditions. They are mutilated without the
of painkillers and deprived of everything that is natural
and important to them. On the killing floor, many animals
are conscious and struggling to escape while their throats
are cut- and some are still conscious while their bodies
are hacked apart or when they are dunked into tanks of
scalding-hot water.
(Para-2) It is an indisputable fact that animals have
sentience and complex systems.Animals are intelligent and
complex-much more so than many people even realize
and scientists are finding more and more evidence of this
all the time. But emotional complexities and intellectual
capabilities aside, animals can feel pain just like humans
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, lives and
and do
theyvalue their not want
andjustlikeus,
can-
to suffer.
ask,"Butanimals eatmeat, so why
(Para-3) People may animals
animals for food
do killother
shouldn'twe2" Some animals couldnot
particular
most humans, those is
but unlike unfortunate that some suffering
survive if they didn't. It's capable of makingchoices
nature. But humansare
part
a of
how to feed, clothe,and entertain
based on ethics-such as making the most
responsibility of
Ourselves-s0we have the best to reduce
of doing our
ethicalchoices possible and
suffering of any kind.
course, there are also similarities between
(Para-4) Of
us, other animals
humans and other animals. Like
uniquely
experience fear, pain, and distress. But we are
so
capable of choosing between cruelty and kindness,
we should never ilfully inflict pain on any being-human or
nonhuman.
(Para-5) According to PETA research, the food industry
has caused the most mass suffering and death among
animals. The living conditions of most animals are filthy and
they have to live in constant fear and torment. In almost all
cases, animals are also separated from their family making
them feel more alone and scared to face death.
(Para -6) Humans have the ability to reason and make
Compassionate choices, so we must end the use of animal,
for food in favour of a humane, vegan way of eating. There
people
is no humane or ethical way to eat animals-So if
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Reading Skills
Discursive Passage
Passage 1
1. Read the passage carefully. On the basis of your
reading. answer the given questions:
(Para-1)The food industry is one of the biggest exploiters
of animals and is responsible for masssuffering and death.
Every year, tens of billions of animals are killed for food, and
most endure lives of constant fear and torment. Nearly all
the animal raised for food in America today are separated
from their families and crammed by the thousands into
filthy warehouses, where they spend their entire lives in
abysmally filthy conditions. They are mutilated without the
of painkillers and deprived of everything that is natural
and important to them. On the killing floor, many animals
are conscious and struggling to escape while their throats
are cut- and some are still conscious while their bodies
are hacked apart or when they are dunked into tanks of
scalding-hot water.
(Para-2) It is an indisputable fact that animals have
sentience and complex systems.Animals are intelligent and
complex-much more so than many people even realize
and scientists are finding more and more evidence of this
all the time. But emotional complexities and intellectual
capabilities aside, animals can feel pain just like humans
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, lives and
and do
theyvalue their not want
andjustlikeus,
can-
to suffer.
ask,"Butanimals eatmeat, so why
(Para-3) People may animals
animals for food
do killother
shouldn'twe2" Some animals couldnot
particular
most humans, those is
but unlike unfortunate that some suffering
survive if they didn't. It's capable of makingchoices
nature. But humansare
part
a of
how to feed, clothe,and entertain
based on ethics-such as making the most
responsibility of
Ourselves-s0we have the best to reduce
of doing our
ethicalchoices possible and
suffering of any kind.
course, there are also similarities between
(Para-4) Of
us, other animals
humans and other animals. Like
uniquely
experience fear, pain, and distress. But we are
so
capable of choosing between cruelty and kindness,
we should never ilfully inflict pain on any being-human or
nonhuman.
(Para-5) According to PETA research, the food industry
has caused the most mass suffering and death among
animals. The living conditions of most animals are filthy and
they have to live in constant fear and torment. In almost all
cases, animals are also separated from their family making
them feel more alone and scared to face death.
(Para -6) Humans have the ability to reason and make
Compassionate choices, so we must end the use of animal,
for food in favour of a humane, vegan way of eating. There
people
is no humane or ethical way to eat animals-So if
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