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【題目】 Every year more people recognize that it is wrong to kill wildlife for “sport”. Progress in this direction is slow because shooting is not a sport for watching, and only those few who take part realize the cruelty and destruction.

The number of gunners, however, grows rapidly. Children too young to develop proper judgments through independent thought are led a long way away by their gunning parents. They are subjected to advertisements of gun producers who describe shooting as good for their health and gun-carrying as a way of putting redder blood in the veins. They are persuaded by gunner magazines with stories honoring the chase and the kill. In school, they view motion pictures which are supposedly meant to teach them how to deal with arms safely but which are actually designed to stimulate（刺激）a desire to own a gun.

Wildlife is disappearing because of shooting and because of the loss of wild land habitat. Habitat loss will continue with our increasing population, but can we slow the loss of wildlife caused by shooting? They seem to forgive shooting for sport because they know little or nothing about it. The only answer, then, is to bring the truth about sport shooting to the great majority of people.

Now, it is time to realize that animals have the same night to life as we do and that there is nothing fair or right about a person with a gun shooting the harmless and beautiful creatures. The gunner like to describe what they do as character building, but we know that to wound an animal and watch it go through the agony of dying can make nobody happy. If, as they would have you believe, gun-carrying and killing improve human character, then perhaps we should encourage war.

【1】According to the text, most people do not seem to be against hunting because _______.

A.they have little knowledge of itB.it helps to build human character

C.it is too costly to stop killing wildlifeD.they want to keep wildlife under control

【2】The underlined word “agony” in the last paragraph probably means _______.

A.formB.conditionC.painD.sadness

【3】According to the text, the films children watch at school actually _______.

A.teach them how to deal with guns safelyB.praise hunting as character-building

C.describe hunting as an exerciseD.encourage them to have guns of their own

【4】It can be inferred from the text that the author seems to _______.

A.blame the majority of peopleB.worry about the existence of wildlife

C.be in favor of warD.be in support of character-building

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】D

【4】B

【解析】

每年越來越多的人意識到把狩獵野生動物當(dāng)成一項運(yùn)動是錯誤的。由于狩獵，野生動物的數(shù)量下降，并且野生動物的棲息地流失。但是還是有很多人沒有意識到這個問題。我們應(yīng)該同等對待生命，不要用槍去傷害那些無害且漂亮的生靈。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“They seem to forgive shooting for sport because they know little or nothing about it.”可知那些把打獵看成運(yùn)動的人，是因為他們對這些知道的很少。故選A。

【2】詞義推斷題。form形成；condition情況；pain痛苦；sadness傷心。根據(jù)上文“…wound an animal…”以及下文“watch it go through…dying can make nobody happy.”可知此處表示看著動物痛苦的死去，每人會開心，C選項符合句意。故選C。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“In school, they view motion pictures which are supposedly meant to teach them how to deal with arms safely but which are actually designed to stimulate（刺激）a desire to own a gun.”可知在學(xué)校，學(xué)生們看電影本來是想教他們怎么樣安全使用武器，但是實際上這會刺激他們有擁有槍支的欲望。故選D。

【4】主旨大意題。本文主要是介紹了現(xiàn)在還有很多人把狩獵野生動物當(dāng)成一種運(yùn)動，究其原因是他們知道的太少。作者希望人們能夠不要打獵，保護(hù)野生動物。B選項意為“擔(dān)心野生動物的生存”，最符合本文大意。故選B。