The famous American gorilla(大猩猩) expert Diane Fossey had a pletely new way to study gorillas — she pretended to be one of them. She copied their actions and way of life — eating plants and getting down on her hands and knees to walk the way a gorilla does. It was a new relationship.
Diane Fossey was murdered in Rwanda in 1985 and her story was made into the popular film Gorillas in the Mist. It was a long way from King Kong, which is about a gorilla as a monster (a frightening animal), and helped to show a new idea: the real monster is man, while the gorilla is to be admired.
Today there are thought to be around 48,000 lowland gorillas and maybe 400—450 mountain gorillas in the wild. From the Congo in West Africa, to Rwanda and Uganda further east, they are endangered by hunting and by the cutting down of their forest homes.
Some time ago, I found in my letterbox a little magazine from the World Wide Fund for Nature. It had two photos side by side. One was of a young gorilla. “This is a species of mammal(哺乳类动物),” said the words below it. “It is being destroyed by man. We must save it for our own good.” The other photo showed a human baby. The words also read, “This is a species of mammal,” but then went on: “It is the most destructive(破坏性的) on earth. We must retrain it for its own good.”
【小题1】The text mainly talks about .A．Diane FosseyB．the gorillas in RwandaC．the protection of the gorillasD．the film Gorillas in the Mist【小题2】We can learn from the text that .A．Gorillas in the mist was based Fossey’s experiencesB．Lowland gorillas live longer than mountain gorillasC．King Kong showed us that a gorilla is admirableD．Diane Fossey was murdered by a gorilla【小题3】What message can we get from the two photos in the magazine?A．Gorillas are man’s close friends.B．Both man and the gorilla need to be saved.C．Young gorillas are as lovely as human babies.D．Man should live peacefully with the gorilla.C
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(答案→)C
解析：
【小题1】文章第一段讲专家Diane Fossey为了发展和找到人和gorilla的和谐关系，如何去模仿动物的动作；第二段讲以她的事例为背景拍成了受人们欢迎的电影；第三段讲动物的生存受到威胁；第四段以两幅图暗示和警告大家“保护动物刻不容缓”。因而，C项是文章的主旨大意。
【小题2】由第一段和第二段中的…and her story was made into the popular film Gorillas in the Mist.可知答案为A。
【小题3】最后一段叙述的两幅画和提示语说明动物和人的关系太紧张。而且从文中最后一句“It is the most destructive on earth. We must retrain it for its own good.”可排除A、B、C，故D为正确答案。