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【题目】 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】

每年越来越多的人意识到把狩猎野生动物当成一项运动是错误的。由于狩猎，野生动物的数量下降，并且野生动物的栖息地流失。但是还是有很多人没有意识到这个问题。我们应该同等对待生命，不要用枪去伤害那些无害且漂亮的生灵。

【1】细节理解题。根据“They seem to forgive shooting for sport because they know little or nothing about it.”可知那些把打猎看成运动的人，是因为他们对这些知道的很少。故选A。

【2】词义推断题。form形成；condition情况；pain痛苦；sadness伤心。根据上文“…wound an animal…”以及下文“watch it go through…dying can make nobody happy.”可知此处表示看着动物痛苦的死去，每人会开心，C选项符合句意。故选C。

【3】细节理解题。根据“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.”可知在学校，学生们看电影本来是想教他们怎么样安全使用武器，但是实际上这会刺激他们有拥有枪支的欲望。故选D。

【4】主旨大意题。本文主要是介绍了现在还有很多人把狩猎野生动物当成一种运动，究其原因是他们知道的太少。作者希望人们能够不要打猎，保护野生动物。B选项意为“担心野生动物的生存”，最符合本文大意。故选B。