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 along way away by their gunning parents. They are subjected to advertisements of gun producers who describe shooting as good for their health and guncarrying 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 (棲息地). 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 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 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, then perhaps we should encourage war.
小題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
小題2:The underlined word "agony" in the last paragraph probably means______________.
A．formB．ConditionC．painD．sadness
小題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 exerciseD．encourage them to have guns of their own
小題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 favour of warD．be in support of character-building

小題1:A
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:B

小題1:事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)題，根據(jù)第四段。
小題2:詞義猜測題，從全句看，應(yīng)是“把動物殺傷并且看著它垂死掙扎著的痛苦不會讓人快樂”，根據(jù)關(guān)鍵詞wound與dying可知，應(yīng)為痛苦之意，故選C。
小題3:事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)題根據(jù)第二段最后兩句，孩子在學(xué)校所接觸的動作電影激發(fā)了孩子擁有槍支的欲望，故選D。
小題4:推理判斷題，作者認(rèn)為把打獵看作一種運(yùn)動是錯誤的，并且論述了當(dāng)前人們對此事的認(rèn)識程度，進(jìn)而提出了為此而擔(dān)憂，特別是最后還提到或許我們應(yīng)該鼓勵戰(zhàn)爭，故選B。
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