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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
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2018-03-01
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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.
According to Paragraph 4, which one is true?
选项
A、Great whites are protected in Western Australia.
B、Shark fin is a delicate course in both Asia and Australia.
C、Some dangerous shark species are protected by federal law.
D、The number of sharks in Australia has been growing in the past few years.
答案
C
解析
选项A意为:大白鲨在澳大利亚西部受到保护。原文第四段第四行指出:Nonetheless, the federal government has given its conservative counterpart in Western Australia an exemption from protecting great whites under its“catch-and-kill”policy.其中关键的是“an exemption from protecting great whites”,意思是“免于保护大白鲨”,也就是说Western Australia可以不用保护大白鲨,与该项表述完全相反,故该项错误。选项B意为:鱼翅在亚洲和澳大利亚都是一道美味佳肴。该段第二句明确指出:Their numbers have suffered from the trade in shark fins for soup in Asia, which Australia and others have banned.. 其中“Australia and others have banned(澳大利亚和其他地区禁止贩卖鱼翅)”告诉我们,该项表述错误。选项C意为:一些危险的鲨鱼种类受到联邦法律的保护。该项对应该段首句: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. 由此可见,该项表述正确。选项D意为:过去几年澳大利亚鲨鱼的数量有所增长。该项对应该段第二句:Their numbers have suffered from the trade in shark fins for soup in Asia… 由此可见鲨鱼被贩卖,数量减少,故该项错误。
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