单选题
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 trousers, 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 (残酷的)， has risen sharply. Nowadays it is rare for a hunt to pass off without some kind of confrontation (冲突) between hunters and hunt saboteurs (阻拦者). Sometimes these incidents lead to violence, but mostly 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 much a part of hunting as the pursuit of foxes itself. But this 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. (324 words)
单选题
Rich people in Britain have been hunting foxes______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析：本题属于细节推断题。由“rich”定位到第三段最后一句的“expensive”和“wealthy”，其相关内容从第三段的第一句可知人们把猎狐当成一项运动(think of it as a sport)，选项A“为了消遣”，是该句的同义转述。B“为了控制狐狸数量”是农夫猎狐的目的，不是富人的目的，应排除。C“为了农夫的利益”和D“为了炫耀他们的财富”在文中未提，应排除。
单选题
What is special about fox hunting in Britain?
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】解析：本题属于细节推断题。C“猎狐者制定了一定的准则”与第三段话中的“follow strict codes of behavior”(遵循严格的行为准则)内容一致，且“codes”=“rules”。因此选C。A“会用到致命毒药”在文章第一段最后一句有提及，但未说明这是特别之处。B“猎狐是一种很昂贵的活动，它很少发生”与文章内容不符，因为第四段第一句说。观看或参加猎狐的人数高达10万，可见猎狐经常发生。D“猎人须经过严格训练”在文中未提。
单选题
Fox hunting opponents often interfere in the game______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：本题属于细节题。由该题的题干定位到第四段第五行：“…but mostly saboteurs (=hunting opponents) interfere with the hunt (=interfere in the game) by misleading riders and disturbing the trial of the fox’s smell(=confusing the fox hunters迷惑猎狐手)”，大多反对者误导猎手，混淆猎犬跟踪的狐狸气味来干预狩猎。可见B“迷惑猎狐者”为正确答案。A“付诸暴力”有时发生，但不是经常，应排除。C“采取法律手段”和D“当场游行示威”在文中未提，应排除。
单选题
A new law may be passed by the British Parliament to______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：本题属于细节题。题干中的“to”这个关键词表目的，考查英国议会通过这项新的法律的目的，通过关键词“a new law”定位到最后一段的最后两句，新法律将使“the hunting of wild animals with dogs”成为非法行为(illegal)，而foxes属于wild animals，由此可推断选B为正确答案。A“禁止农夫猎狐”和D“禁止大规模猎狐”在文中未提，均排除。C“禁止在农村打猎”与文章内容不符，因为法律禁止的是带狗打猎，不是打猎本身。
单选题
It can be inferred from the passage that______.