2. 考研
  3. Next to snakes and crocs, Australians imagine sharks to be the country’s most dangerous creature. Tim Winton, an author, calls s

Next to snakes and crocs, Australians imagine sharks to be the country’s most dangerous creature. Tim Winton, an author, calls s

admin2018-03-01  23
问题     Next to snakes and crocs, Australians imagine sharks to be the country’s most dangerous creature. Tim Winton, an author, calls sharks "substitute for the Devil". Seven swimmers in three years have died from shark attacks in Mr. Winton’s home state of Western Australia. The state’s government, led by Colin Barnett, is now taking revenge.
    In late November a skilled surfer died from a shark attack. A week later a shark killed a 19-year-old in New South Wales. The tragedies fed public anxieties. Mr. Barnett ordered no-go zones for sharks to be set up offshore, marked by lines of baited hooks. Any shark caught on them more than three metres long was to be shot. The first shark caught in this strategy was shot on January 26th. Mr. Barnett says he has to "protect the people of Western Australia".
    But previously hostile popular attitudes towards sharks are shifting. Plenty of Western Australians , along with environmentalists and shark experts, deplore the new policy. In early January, at the height of the summer holiday season, more than 4,000 protesters swamped Cottesloe Beach in Perth, with signs reading "Save Our Sharks" and "Science Not Slaughter".
    Of Australia’s 180 or so shark species, only a few are dangerous to humans: chiefly, bull sharks, tiger sharks and great whites, which are protected under federal law. Their numbers have suffered from the trade in shark fins for soup in Asia, which Australia and others have banned. Nonetheless, the federal government has given its conservative counterpart in Western Australia an exemption from protecting great whites under its "catch-and-kill" policy.
    Despite the recent attacks, deaths from sharks are rare—an average of just one person a year for the past half-century around Australia’s vast coastline, says the Australian Shark Attack File, a research outfit at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. By contrast, an average of 120 people drown each year off beaches and in harbours and rivers. There has been no fatal shark attack at Bondi beach in Sydney, Australia’s most popular strand, since 1929.
Snakes and crocs are mentioned in Paragraph 1 in order to ______.
选项 A、show their danger to people in Australia
B、emphasize Australians’ extreme hatred toward sharks
C、indicate that sharks are more dangerous
D、show that taking revenge against sharks is necessary to ensure safety
答案B
解析 引用目的题一般必须符合全文主旨，尤其是出现在第一段中的引用目的题。很显然，该文章旨在保护sharks，而不是消灭sharks。第一段对snakes以及crocs的引用仅仅是为了表明澳洲人对sharks的害怕，并决心要take revenge，因此选项B属于正确选项，即“为了强调澳洲人对鲨鱼的极端仇恨”。选项A、C、D都属于肤浅选项，尤其选项D偏离了全文“保护鲨鱼”这一主旨。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/wABZ777K
0

考研英语一

相关试题推荐
随机试题
最新回复(0)