Here in Alaska,the wolf almost disappeared a few years ago. It's be?cause hunters were killing hundreds of them for 1     . However,laws were passed to protect the wolves 2    the sportsmen and also the people who 3     the animals for fur. So the wolf population has greatly 4    . Now there are so 5     wolves that they are destroying their own 6     supply.

  A wolf naturally preys(捕食) on animals in the 7    family. People in the wilderness(荒原) also hunt deer for food. Many of the animals have been destroyed by the very 8    recently and by changes in the wilderness 9     

life. When the deer can't find  10    food , they die.

  If the wolves 11     to kill large numbers of deer,their prey will 12     some day. And the wolves will,too. So we must 13   the cycle of life in the wilderness to 14    the ecology(生态环境) .If we killed more wolves,we would 15    them and their prey from extinction(绝种) .We'd also save some 16    animals.

  In another northern state,wolves 17    cows and chickens for food. 18     want theUnited Statesgovernment to send a team of 19        to study the problem. They believe it is necessary to kill wolves in some areas and to protect them in places where there is a(n) 20    wolf population.

1.A. fur   B. food   C. sport   D. fun

2.A. for   B. of   C. from   D. about

3.A. took   B. caught   C. found   D. played

4.A. increased   B. reduced   C. developed   D. advanced

5.A. many   B. few   C. much   D. little

6.A. animal   B. plant   C. food   D. water

7.A. cat   B. dog   C. deer   D. cow

8.A. warm summers   B. warm springs   C. cool autumns   D. cold winters

9.A. animal   B. plant   C. water   D. cold

10.A. good   B. much   C. more   D. enough

11.A. start   B. stop   C. decide   D. continue

12.A. disappear   B. reduce   C. increase   D. appear

13.A. remove   B. change   C. renew   D. form

14.A. change   B. remain   C. balance   D. resist

15.A. protect   B. prevent   C. keep   D. save

16.A. wild   B. farm   C. useful   D. field

17.A. offered   B. struck   C. attacked   D. looked

18.A. Farmers   B. Scientists   C. Biologists   D. Fishermen

19.A. officials   B. doctors   C. teachers   D. biologists

20.A. small   B. large   C. increasing   D. natural

   I don't know how I became a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel. My people were of the working class of people. My father, a stonecutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration(崇敬) for literature. He had a tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet's Macbeth, Mark Antony's Funeral Oration, Grey's Elegy, and all the rest of it. I heard it all as a child;I memorized and learned it all.

 He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write,which had been strong during all my days in high school, grew stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the col?lege magazine, etc.,and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in play writing which had just been established there. I wrote several little one-act plays, still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man,never daring to believe I could seriously become a writ?er. Then I went to Harvard,wrote some more plays there, became obsessed with(着迷于) the idea that I had to be a playwright, left Harvard,had my plays rejected, and finally in the autumn of 1926, how,why,or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine. But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel, I began to write my first book in London. I was living all alone at that time. I had two rooms―a bedroom and a sitting room―in a little square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar, smoked brick and cream-yellow-plaster look.

(   ) 1. We may conclude,in regard to the author's development as a writer,that his father

   A.made an important contribution

   B.insisted that he choose writing as a career

   C.opposed his becoming a writer

   D.insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer

(   ) 2. The author believes that he became a writer mostly because of        .

   A. his special talent   B. his father's teaching and encouragement

   C.  his study at Harvard   D. a hidden urge within him

(   ) 3. The author        .

   A.began to think of becoming a writer at Harvard

   B.had always been successful in his writing career

   C.went to Harvard to learn to write plays

   D.worked as a newspaper man before becoming a writer

(   ) 4. The author really started on his way to become a writer        .

   A. when he was in high school   B. when he was studying at Harvard

   C.  when he lived in London   D. after he entered college

(   ) 5. What can we learn about the author's life in the autumn of 1926?

   A.He left Harvard and got married.

   B.He couldn't make up his mind what to do.

   C.He started his dream as a writer.

   D.He began to think seriously what to do.

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