【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[听力原文]
The University of Tennessee"s Walters Life Sciences Building is a model animal facility, spotlessly clean, careful in obtaining prior approval for experiments from an animal care committee.
Of the 15000 mice housed there in a typical year, most give their lives for humanity.
These are "good" mice and as such won the protection of the animal care committee.
At any given time, however, some mice escape and run free. These mice are "pests."
They can disrupt experiments with the bacteria organisms they carry. They are "bad" mice and must be captured and destroyed.
Usually, this is accomplished by means of sticky traps, a kind of fly paper on which they become increasingly stuck. But the real point of this cautionary tale, says animal behaviorist Herzog, is that the labels we put on things can affect our moral responses to them. Using sticky traps or the more deadly snap traps would be deemed unacceptable for "good" mice.
Yet the killing of "bad" mice requires no prior approval.
Once a research animal hits the floor and becomes an escapee, says Herzog, its moral standing is instantly diminished.
In Herzog"s own home, there was a more ironic example. When his young son"s pet mouse Willy died recently, it was accorded a tearful ceremonial burial in the garden. Yet even as they mourned Willy, says Herzog, he and his wife were setting snap traps to kill the pest mice in their kitchen.
With the bare change in labels from "pet" to "pest," the kitchen mice attained totally different moral status.
What does the passage say about most of the mice used for experiments?