Question

    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 (血管). 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 wildland habitat (栖息地). Habitat loss will continue with our increasing population, but can we slow the loss of wildlife caused by shooting? There doesn’t seem to be any chance if the serious condition of our birds is not improved.

    Wildlife belongs to everyone and not to the gunners alone. Although most people do not shoot, they seem to forgiveお 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 right to life as we do and that there is nothing fair or right aboutお a person with a gun shooting the harmless and beautiful creatures. The gunners 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, and then perhaps we should encourageお war.

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

A. they have little knowledge of it

B. it helps to build human character

C. it is too costly to stop killing wildlife

D. they want to keep wildlife under control

2. The underlined word “agony” in the last paragraph probably means _________.

A. form

B. condition

C. pain

D. sadness

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

A. teach them how to deal with guns safely

B. praise hunting as character-building

C. describe hunting as an exercise

D. 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 people

B. worry about the existence of wildlife

C. be in favor of war

D. be in support of character-building

 

Answer 1

答案：ACDB
解析：

1. 这个题的答案在这里：The only answer, then, is to bring the truth about sport shooting to the great majority of people.这个句子告诉我们，因为大众对运动性狩猎的事实真相不了解，因此对这种运动不持反对态度。 2. 这个题考查对生词的理解。…，but we know that to wound an animal and watch it go through the agony of dying can make nobody happy.这个句子中的go through是经历的意思，而且它强调从头到尾，通过这个短语，我们可以想象动物死前痛苦的情景。 3. 从文章中可以知道，电影鼓励孩子们拥有自己的武器。 4. 这个题是一个推断题，我们要根据全文对这个题进行推断。本文主要就一个问题展开讨论，在文段的第一段作者就直截了当地提出问题.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.每年更多的人意识到将猎杀野生动物当作运动是不对的。但是这种进展非常缓慢，因为狩猎不是观赏性体育运动，而只有亲历的人才了解它的残忍和破坏性。尽管它是一个推断性问题，但是其他选项并没有诱惑力，所以答案一目了然。