单选题
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D at the end of the passage. You should choose ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
The mysterious tiger has been a symbol of power and strength for centuries. Its power is a {{U}}(56) {{/U}} to hunters, {{U}}(57) {{/U}} have tried to kill it to prove their own skill and {{U}}(58) {{/U}}. In India {{U}}(59) {{/U}} the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, large parties of {{U}}(60) {{/U}} from around the world {{U}}(61) {{/U}} go out on huge tiger hunts. Hundreds of tigers could be killed in a few weeks. As a {{U}}(62) {{/U}} of this over-hunting, {{U}}(63) {{/U}} with loss of habitat(栖息地), the population of tigers in India dropped from about 40,000 {{U}}(64) {{/U}} the turn of the twentieth century to about 2,000 by 1972.
With the help of India and other concerned countries, the World Wildlife Fund {{U}}(65) {{/U}} Operation Tiger in 1972 to save the tiger {{U}}(66) {{/U}} dying out. Since then, seventeen tiger preserves (保护区) have been {{U}}(67) {{/U}}, and the tiger population in India has risen to {{U}}(68) {{/U}} 4,000 and 5,000.
But when people live on the {{U}}(69) {{/U}} of the tiger preserves, tigers sometimes kill their farm animals and attack people--about 600 people in India have been killed by tigers in the last dozen years. {{U}}(70) {{/U}} tigers do not eat humans. But "old, wounded and homeless" tigers can become habitual (习惯的) man-eaters. In one area in India, villagers have {{U}}(71) {{/U}} a clever solution. They wire lifelike human dummies (假人) to electricity {{U}}(72) {{/U}} the tigers get a(n) {{U}}(73) {{/U}} shock when they attack. It is hoped that in this way tigers will learn to {{U}}(74) {{/U}} people. But the conflict between human and tiger {{U}}(75) {{/U}}. Only if people have enough food, shelter and fuel will the tiger survive in the long run. And only if the tiger and its forest survive will people have a natural world they can return to.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】根据文章大意可知challenge符合题意。a challenge to对……的挑战。succession继承；guarantee保证；intelligence智慧。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】先行词hunters是人，所以用who引导定语从句。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】与skill并列，所以是bravery。猎人希望证明的是自己的勇气。与skill(技能)形成并列结构。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】throughout“贯穿”。throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries…在整个19世纪和20世纪初期……。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】sportsmen喜好打猎的人，冒险家。其他三项均不符合文意。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】used to过去常常。描述在过去的某段时间经常做的事情。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】a result of……的结果，固定搭配。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】固定搭配。combined with和……相结合，这里为“再加上……”的意思。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】固定搭配。at the turn of the century在世纪之交。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】found是句中的谓语动词，意义为“出资创建”。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】固定搭配。save…from…保护……免于……。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】动词短语辨析。set up建立；stand up站起来；pay back还钱；hold back阻挡。根据上下文可知，保护区应是被建立，因此选A。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】固定搭配。between…and…在……之间。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】固定搭配。on the edge of在……的边缘。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】后面说到只有在特殊情况下，老虎才吃人，因此判断前一句应是通常的状况，因此选B。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】固定搭配。come up with想出。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】介词短语辨析。as soon as一……就……；so that如此……以至于；as long as只要；for fear that恐怕……。so that引出结果状语从句。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】前文有electricity，可知是用电。electric shock是“电击”。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】动词辨析。前文说到，老虎咬到假人会遭电击，人们希望老虎因此学会避开人类。avoid“避开”。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】动词辨析。尽管人们想出了上文说到的“聪明办法”，但是问题依然存在。remain“仍然存在”。