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【题目】 Three brown bears in the distance catches Charlie Russell’s eye. When they get a metre or so away from him, the huge animals slow down. The leading bear holds her face very close to Rusell’s. She touches his nose with her own and Russell breaks into a smile. “Hey, little bear,” he says.

Rusell, now 70, has spent more than ten springs and summers living with brown bears in the eastern-most part of Russia.“No question, bears are dangerous,” says Russell, but he also argues that fearing them prevents us from recognizing their intelligent, playful and peaceful nature. “They attack us because we abuse them.” he insists.

“What I want to do now is work on the human side of the problem,” Russell says. In Canada —a country where cities spread deep into the rural landscape and hunters kill about 450 bears annually, he is determined to change the way we treat our neighbors.

Russell was raised with the idea that “the only good bear is a dead bear.” His father, a hunter, shared stories of cruel brown bears with his five children. However, when the family’s hunting business declined in the early 1960s, Russell joined his father on an expedition to film brown bears in Alaska. Russell couldn’t help but wonder why bears behaved aggressively towards people carrying guns, but left the film-makers alone. “I suspected they didn’t like cruelty,” he says.

In 1994 he tested out his theory in British Columbia’s Khutzeymateen Inlet, where he took tourists on bear-viewing tours. One afternoon, while resting on a log between guiding trips, Russell sat still as a female brown bear casually approached. “I knew if I did not move, she would keep coming,” he later said. “I had decided to let her come as close as she wanted.” Russell spoke to the bear in gentle tones and she sat down beside him. She put her paw on his hand and Russell responded to the gesture, touching her nose, lip and teeth. These were the iron jaws featured in his father’s campfire stories, now no more threatening than the nose of a little dog. If he could repeat similar moments, Russell believed he could prove that “just by treating bears kindly, people can live safely with them”.

【1】According to Russell, bears attack humans because they ________.

A.mistreat themB.are afraid of them

C.mistake their playful tricksD.have no idea of their real nature

【2】The underlined part in Para. 4 suggests ________.

A.a good bear never diesB.a live bear is dangerous

C.the only good bear is deadD.a bear is aggressive to gun holders

【3】The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to ________.

A.show us how brave he isB.warn us not to approach bears

C.encourage us to play with bearsD.tell us to live in peace with bears

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】B

【3】D

【解析】

这是一篇新闻报道。短文报道了查理·罗素与棕熊一起生活，研究棕熊的行为方式。他告诉人们只要善待熊，人们就能和棕熊和睦相处。

【1】细节理解题。由第二段“They attack us because we abuse them”可知，熊攻击人类是因为人类虐待它们。所以据罗素说，熊攻击人类是因为人类虐待它们。故选A项。

【2】词句猜测题。由第四段“Russell was raised with the idea that “the only good bear is a dead bear.” His father, a hunter, shared stories of cruel brown bears with his five children”可知，罗素从小就有这样的想法：“唯一不危险的熊就是死熊。”他的父亲是一名猎人，他向他的五个孩子讲述了残忍的棕熊的故事。所以通过上下文的语境可以判断出，第4段中的下划线部分表明活熊是危险的。故选B项。

【3】推理判断题。通读全文尤其是第一段“Russell believed he could prove that “just by treating bears kindly, people can live safely with them”可知，短文报道了查理·罗素与棕熊一起生活，研究棕熊的行为方式。他告诉人们只要善待熊，人们就能安全地与它们生活在一起。所以作者写这篇文章的目的是为了告诉我们要与熊和平共处。故选D项。

由上下文的语境是解决词义猜测题的重要解题方法。划线词的意思往往是我们要猜测的意思。我们可以通过已知的上下文的词汇或者句子来猜测未知的意思.

由第四段“Russell was raised with the idea that “the only good bear is a dead bear.” His father, a hunter, shared stories of cruel brown bears with his five children”可知，罗素从小就有这样的想法:“只有死熊才是好熊。”他的父亲是一名猎人，他向他的五个孩子讲述了残忍的棕熊的故事。 所以通过上下文的语境可以判断出，第4段中的下划线部分表明活熊是危险的。故小题2选B项。