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Passage 6
Foxes and farmers have never got on well. These small dog-like animals have long been accused of killing farm animals. They are officially classified as harmful and farmers try to keep their numbers down by shooting or poisoning them.
Farmers can also call on the services of their local hunt to control the fox population. Hunting consists of pursuing a fox across the countryside * with a group of specially trained dogs, followed by men and women riding horses. When the dogs eventually catch the fox they kill it or a hunter shoots it.
People who take part in hunting think of it as a sport； they wear a special uniform of red coats and white trouserst and follow strict codes of behavior. But owning a horse and hunting regularly is expensive,so most hunters are wealthy.
It is estimated that up to 100,000 people watch or take part in fox hunting. But over the last couple of decades the number of people opposed to fox hunting*because they think it is brutal (殘酷的），has risen sharply. Nowadays it is rare for a hunt to pass off without some kind of confrontation (沖突） between hunters and hunt saboteurs (阻攔者）• Sometimes these incidents lead to violence,but mostjy saboteurs interfere with the hunt by misleading riders and disturbing the trail of the fox s smell, which the dogs follow.
Noisy confrontations between hunters and saboteurs have become so common that they are almost as ir^pch a part of hunting as the pursuit of foxes itself. But thi§ year supporters of fox hunting face a much bigger threat to their sport. A Labour Party Member of the Parliament, Mike Foster, is trying to get Parliament to approve a new law which will make the hunting of wild animals with dogs illegal. If the law is passed,wild animals like foxes will be protected under the ban in Britain.
It can be inferred from the passage that ...
A. killing foxes with poison is illegal
B. limiting the fox population is unnecessary
C. hunting foxes with dogs is considered cruel and violent
D. fox-hunting often leads to confrontation between the poor and the rich
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| opposed | [ə'pəuzd] |
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| disturbing | [di'stə:biŋ] |
想一想再看 adj. 煩擾的；令人不安的 v. 干擾；打斷（dist |
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| rare | [rɛə] |
想一想再看 adj. 稀罕的，稀薄的，罕見的，珍貴的 |
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| misleading | [mis'li:diŋ] |
想一想再看 adj. 令人誤解的 |
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| brutal | ['bru:tl] |
想一想再看 adj. 野蠻的，殘暴的 |
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| foster | ['fɔstə] |
想一想再看 vt. 養育，培養，促進，鼓勵，抱有（希望等） |
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| confrontation | [.kɔnfrʌn'teiʃən] |
想一想再看 n. 對審，面對面，面對 |
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| eventually | [i'ventjuəli] |
想一想再看 adv. 終于，最后 |
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| illegal | [i'li:gəl] |
想一想再看 adj. 不合法的，非法的 |
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| poison | ['pɔizn] |
想一想再看 n. 毒藥，敗壞道德之事，毒害 |
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