10. C。与前半句相对应,这里仍应用比较级,而may better意思不对,因此be able to better为正确选项。
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Farley worked
for the Canadian government. One day, he was __1__ to learn more about
wolves. Do wolves kill lots of caribou(北美驯鹿)? Do they kill people?
They gave him
lots of food and clothes and guns. Then they put him on a plane and took him to
__2__. The plane put him down and went away. There were no houses or
people in this place. But there were lots of animals and lots of wolves.
People tell
terrible stories about wolves. They say wolves like to kill and eat people.
Farley remembered these stories, and he was __3__. He had his gun with
him__4_.
Then one day, he
saw a group of wolves. There was a mother wolf with four baby wolves. A father
wolf and another young wolf lived with them.
Farley watched
these wolves every day. The mother was a very __5__ mother. She gave
milk to her babies. She gave them lessons about life. They learned how to __6__
food. The father wolf got food for the mother. The young wolf __7__ the
children. They were a nice, happy family-wolf family! Farley did not need his
__8__ any more. In a short time, he got on well with the family. Farley
watched them for five months. He learned that many stories about the wolves
were __9__. Wolves do not eat people, and they do not eat many large
animals. And he also learned bad things about men. It was men who killed many
caribou and wolves.
Later, Farley
wrote a book about wolves. He wanted people to __10__ them and not to
kill them.