【正文】 e, a present participle preceded with anadjective or adverb, suchas goodlooking, uglylooking,easylooking, tiredlooking, hardworking, and everlasting.19 Fortunately, most of us enjoy good health, and the agony of watching one’schild die has bee a rare experience. (Para. 7)Meaning beyond words: We are lucky because most of us have good health, and thepain to see a dying child has also bee rare, an evidence which effectively shows theimportance of medical research and the progress it has made.20 Yet our good fortune should not make us unappreciative. Protection fromserious sickness and drugs to bat heart disease, high blood pressure andstroke are all based on animal research. Most plex surgical procedures such asheart or hip surgery and organ transplantation surgeries were initially developed inanimals. (Para. 7)Meaning: We should be grateful for our good fortune, though. We should know thatprotection from serious sickness and drugs to fight heart disease, high blood pressure andstroke all e from animal research. Most plex surgical procedures such as heart orhip surgery and organ transplantation surgeries were also first used and developed inanimal research.Meaning beyond words: Al these medical advances should be attributed to animalresearch, without which no such medical achievements could have ever been made.21 Techniques to replace defective genes, the cause of so much disease, as well asthe development of synthetic organs are presently undergoing animal studies.These studies, and any subsequent advances, will effectively end if animalresearch is severely restricted. (Para. 7)Meaning: The efforts to substitute problematic genes that have caused a lot of diseaseand the development of artificial organs are now conducted on animal studies. Thesestudies, together with the forthing advances, wil actual y end if animal research isstopped.22 In America today, death has bee an event isolated from our daily existence.As a doctor who has watched many children die and seen their parents’ infinitegrief, I am particularly angered by any minute expression of caring for the sufferingof creatures and so little for sick and dying human beings. (Para. 8)Meaning: In today’s America, death has bee far away from daytoday life. Being adoctor, I have seen many children die, and I have experienced the tremendous grief oftheir parents. Therefore, I am especially mad at the detailed remarks about the sufferingof the animals but so little care for sick and dying human beings.23 People are too protected from the reality of human life and death and what itmeans. ()Meaning: People stay healthy and are well protected through medical advances, so theydon’t understand the cruel reality of life and death and what it real y means.24 Make no mistake, however. I would never advocate needless cruel treatment ofanimals. The animal rights movement has made a contribution in making us moreaware of animals’ needs and the need to search harder for suitable alternatives.(Para. 9)Meaning: However, don’t be mistaken. Don’t assume that I would engage in unnecessarycruel treatment of animals. The good thing that the animal rights movement has done isthat it has made us more conscious of animal rights and the urgency to search harder forproper alternatives to animal research.Meaning beyond words: To make his argument more legitimated, the physician isconceding a little bit by agreeing with the opponents’ points or concerns. It can somehowmake his viewpoint sound more reasonable and convincing to the public, an effectivestrategy when writing an argumentative essay.25 But if the more radical members of this movement are successful in threateningfurther research, their efforts will bring about a tragedy that will cost many lives.(Para. 9)Meaning: Nevertheless, if the more extreme members of the movement successful y putanimal research at risk, there will be a tragedy which causes many people to die.26 Hence the real question is whether an uncaring majority can be aroused toprotect its future against a loud, but misdirected, minority. (Para. 9)Meaning: Therefore, the real question is whether we can make the uncaring public beaware of the significance of animal research against a minority that are active but in thewrong direction.Meaning beyond words: This is the physician’s last appeal to the public and also hismost worried concern. He urges the public to be aware of the significance of animalresearch and to take actions against those minority who are active but in the wrongdirection.Note: Misdirect is a derivative word, made up of the prefix mis and the word direct. Verbsformed in this way describe or refer to things that are done wrongly or badly. Words thathave been learned are misunderstand, misuse, misprint, etc