2.Every year more people recognize that it is wrong to kill wildlife for"sport".Progress in this direction is (50)Cbecause shooting is not a sport for watching,and only those few who take part realize the cruelty and (51)B.
The number of gunners,however,grows rapidly.Children too young to develop proper judgments through (52)Bthought are led along way away by their gunning parents.They(53)Aadvertisements 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 (54)Cthe chase and the kill.In school they view motion pictures which are (55)Bmeant to teach them how to deal with arms safely and which are actually designed to (56)Da desire to own a gun.Wildlife is disappearing because of shooting and because of the loss of wildland habitat.Habitat loss will continue with our increasing population,but can we slow the loss of wildlife caused by (57)B?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 (58)Ashooting for sport because they know little or nothing about it.The only answer,then,is to bring the (59)Dabout sport shooting to the great majority of people.
Now,it is time to realize that animals have the same (60)Cto life as we do and that there is nothing (61)Bor right about a person with a gun shooting the harmless and beautiful (62)D.The gunners like to describe what they do as character-building,but we know that to wound an animal and watch it (63)Cthe pain of dying can make nobody happy.If they would have you believe,gun-carrying and killing improve human-character,perhaps we should (64)Dwar.
50.A.rapid | B.frightening | C.slow | D.great |
51.A.attraction | B.violence | C.prospect | D.motion |
52.A.deep | B.independent | C.subconscious | D.emotional |
53.A.are subjected to | B.are obliged to | C.are adapted to | D.are reduced to |
54.A.criticizing | B.approving | C.honoring | D.admitting |
55.A.deliberately | B.supposedly | C.necessarily | D.eventually |
56.A.publicize | B.withdraw | C.increase | D.stimulate |
57.A.polluting | B.shooting | C.infecting | D.feeding |
58.A.forgive | B.consider | C.replace | D.exchange |
59.A.result | B.meaning | C.background | D.truth |
60.A.taste | B.experience | C.right | D.problem |
61.A.considerate | B.fair | C.delicate | D.beneficial |
62.A.beast | B.rabbits | C.targets | D.creatures |
63.A.get over | B.drop out | C.go through | D.turn away |
64.A.discourage | B.agree | C.eliminate | D.encourage |