文章大意：本文是新闻报道。本文报道了美国当局在2020年逮捕了柬埔寨官员和走私集团，涉嫌走私长尾猴。文章还讨论了美国灵长类动物研究中心的现状以及从国外获取实验室猴的困难。此外，文章还提到了中国禁止灵长类动物出口和某制药公司涉嫌从柬埔寨购买幼年长尾猕猴的案件。整篇文章展示了灵长类动物走私和实验室猴供应的问题。
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Directions: Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A．award B．house C．hit D．namely E．specifically F．grabbed
G．traded H．gang I．bar J．principled K．transmission |
American authorities arrested Masphal Kry, an official in Cambodia’s forestry administration, last November when he was heading to an international meeting about trade regulations for endangered species in Panama. Prosecutors accused him of conspiring with a smuggling ring. The contraband (违禁品): monkeys, 1 long-tailed macaques. His 2 allegedly grabbed wild macaques in Cambodia’s national parks and bribed officials to label them as captive-bred. Fake papers allowed Vanny Bio Research, a Cambodian pharma company, to ship these unfortunate primates (灵长类动物) to America for use in research. Mr Kry is facing trial in Florida’s Southern District Court. The federal government funds seven National Primate Research Centres (NPRCs), which 3 in total around 20,000 primates, not only macaques but also baboons and marmosets. These centres then 4 primates to labs across America. NPRCs have fulfilled only a third of requests for untested-on macaques in 2021 and prices have soared. Before the covid-19 pandemic a rhesus macaque cost $8,000; by 2022 they had 5 $24,000. Another species, long-tail macaques, is probably per pound currently the most expensive 6 wildlife, says Lisa Jones-Engel, a science adviser at PETA, an animal-rights group.
Getting lab monkeys from abroad became harder during the pandemic. Chinese authorities banned the export of all primates in early 2020. The Chinese government wanted to 7 the country’s wildlife trade, which is thought to encourage the 8 of pathogens—like sars-cov-2—from animals to humans.
That forced American companies to rely on less 9 South-East Asian suppliers. Many scientists believe poaching is prevalent across Cambodia. In February, the Department of Justice subpoenaed Charles River over 1,000 juvenile macaques the pharmaceutical company had bought from Cambodia; the DoJ suspected they were 10 in the wild then exported. These primates are now in Texas and Maryland but also in dilemma: they cannot be tested on, nor can they be flown back to Cambodia.
