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 (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 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.
【小题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 characterC．it is too costly to stop killing wildlifeD．they want to keep wildlife under control【小题2】The underlined word agony in the last paragraph probably means .A．formB．ConditionC．painD．sadness【小题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-buildingC．describe hunting as an exerciseD．encourage them to have guns of their own【小题4】It can be inferred from the text that the author seems to .A．blame the majority of peopleB．worry about the existence of wildlifeC．be in favour of warD．be in support of character-buildingA
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(答案→)A
解析：
【小题1】事实细节题，根据第四段。
【小题2】词义猜测题，从全句看，应是“把动物杀伤并且看着它垂死挣扎着的痛苦不会让人快乐”，根据关键词wound与dying可知，应为痛苦之意，故选C。
【小题3】事实细节题根据第二段最后两句，孩子在学校所接触的动作电影激发了孩子拥有枪支的欲望，故选D。
【小题4】推理判断题，作者认为把打猎看作一种运动是错误的，并且论述了当前人们对此事的认识程度，进而提出了为此而担忧，特别是最后还提到或许我们应该鼓励战争，故选B。