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From the Ted Talk by Robyn J. Crook: How do animals experience pain?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


hmauns know the sniiurrpsg prick of a needle, the searing pain of a stubbed toe and the throbbing of a toothache. We can identify many tpeys of pain and have multiple ways of treating it. But what about other seiceps? How do the animals all around us experience pain? It’s important that we find out. We keep animals as pets, they enrich our enoevnmrnit, we farm many species for food, and we use them in experiments to advance science and human health. Animals are clearly important to us, so it’s equally important that we avoid causing them unnecessary pain.

For ainmals that are similar to us, like mammals, it's often ovuoibs when they're hurting. But there's a lot that isn't obvious, like whether pain relievers that work on us also help them. And the more different an animal is from us, the harder it is to understand their experience. How do you tell whether a shrimp is in pain? A snake? A snail?

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______ know the __________ prick of a needle, the searing pain of a stubbed toe and the throbbing of a toothache. We can identify many _____ of pain and have multiple ways of treating it. But what about other _______? How do the animals all around us experience pain? It’s important that we find out. We keep animals as pets, they enrich our ___________, we farm many species for food, and we use them in experiments to advance science and human health. Animals are clearly important to us, so it’s equally important that we avoid causing them unnecessary pain.

For _______ that are similar to us, like mammals, it's often _______ when they're hurting. But there's a lot that isn't obvious, like whether pain relievers that work on us also help them. And the more different an animal is from us, the harder it is to understand their experience. How do you tell whether a shrimp is in pain? A snake? A snail?

Solution


  1. environment
  2. types
  3. species
  4. animals
  5. surprising
  6. obvious
  7. humans

Original Text


Humans know the surprising prick of a needle, the searing pain of a stubbed toe and the throbbing of a toothache. We can identify many types of pain and have multiple ways of treating it. But what about other species? How do the animals all around us experience pain? It’s important that we find out. We keep animals as pets, they enrich our environment, we farm many species for food, and we use them in experiments to advance science and human health. Animals are clearly important to us, so it’s equally important that we avoid causing them unnecessary pain.

For animals that are similar to us, like mammals, it's often obvious when they're hurting. But there's a lot that isn't obvious, like whether pain relievers that work on us also help them. And the more different an animal is from us, the harder it is to understand their experience. How do you tell whether a shrimp is in pain? A snake? A snail?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. advance
  2. animal
  3. animals
  4. avoid
  5. causing
  6. enrich
  7. environment
  8. equally
  9. experience
  10. experiments
  11. farm
  12. find
  13. food
  14. harder
  15. health
  16. human
  17. humans
  18. hurting
  19. identify
  20. important
  21. lot
  22. mammals
  23. multiple
  24. needle
  25. obvious
  26. pain
  27. pets
  28. prick
  29. relievers
  30. science
  31. searing
  32. shrimp
  33. similar
  34. snail
  35. snake
  36. species
  37. stubbed
  38. surprising
  39. throbbing
  40. toe
  41. toothache
  42. treating
  43. types
  44. understand
  45. unnecessary
  46. ways
  47. work