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Hunted as the wild turkey is, it has developed a high degree of ingenuity in escaping from its pursuers. It appears to have lear

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问题     Hunted as the wild turkey is, it has developed a high degree of ingenuity in escaping from its pursuers. It appears to have learned a game of make-_______【C1】. When caught_______ 【C2】close quarters, it puts on the tame and _______ 【C3】demeanor of the domesticated bird.
    Dr. Wheaton mentions a case _______ 【C4】two hunters of his acquaintance came suddenly upon a _______ 【C5】of five in the road. They seemed quite ___         【C6】, walked deliberately in front of the two gunners,_______ 【C7】a fence, and    disappeared slowly _______ 【C8】a low hill. Then they _______ 【C9】to their legs, and presently to their wings, and soon placed a wide _______ 【C10】between themselves and their dupes.  The chagrin of the sportsmen may be imagined. The _______【C11】had made a game of them. Such birds Wheaton would have called "_______ 【C12】civilized".
    Yet turkeys are wise in some respects  and foolish in others.  In old times,  at _______【C13】, great numbers were caught in _______ 【C14】built of logs, the only entrance _______ 【C15】which was through a shallow, narrow trench. The _______ 【C16】birds, following the corn which had been scattered in the trench, _______ 【C17】through the entrance; when perhaps half a dozen of them were inside, and the bait was all eaten, they tried in _______ 【C18】to get out through the top or sides of the pen, never once  looking  down and passing _______ 【C19】by the way they had come in, even though they might remain in the trap for several days, or until they____________ 【C20】of hunger.
【C18】
选项 A、short
B、effort
C、attempt
D、vain
答案D
解析 in vain为固定搭配，表示“徒劳的，没用的努力”，选vain符合后文讲到的火鸡出不去的情形。in short数量不足，缺乏；in an effort to设法，为了；in all attempt to设法，为了。
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