Foxes and farmers have never got on well．These small dog-like animals have long been scolded for killing farm animals．They are officially regarded 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．Hunters hunt a fox across the countryside, with a group of specially trained dogs, followed by men and women riding horses．When the dogs finally 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 rules 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 who object to fox hunting, because they think it is cruel, 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 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 become so common that they are almost as much a part of hunting as the hunting of foxes itself．But this year supporters of fox hunting face a much bigger threat to their support．A labor Party Member of the Parliament , Mike Foster , is trying to get parliament to pass a new law which will make the hunting of wild animals with dogs illegal （非法的）．If the law is passed, wild animals like foxes will be protected under the ban in Britain．
1．Rich people in Britain have been hunting foxes ______________.
A．for fun B．to limit the fox population
C．in the interests of the farmer D．to show off their wealth
2．What is special about fox hunting in Britain?
A．It includes the use of deadly poison.
B．It is a costly event that rarely occurs．
C．The hunters have set rules to follow.
D．The hunters have to go through strict training．
3．People who object to fox hunting often interfere in the game ________________．
A．by using violence B．by taking legal action
C．by beating the fox hunters D．by standing in line to stop the hunting
4．It can be inferred from the passage that _______________.
A．killing foxes with poison is illegal
B．limiting the fox population is illegal
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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“Humans have a code of ethics (行為規(guī)范) ,” says Marc Bekoff, an animal behavior expert at the University of Colorado. “If I don’t play in a certain way, you won’t play with me. Some animals have the same code”
Scientists recently discovered that animals which live in groups, such as elephants, foxes and wolves are especially likely to follow rules. If they don’t, and each does its own thing, the group might break apart. Group members would be forced to live alone. Then they’d have a harder time hunting and raising their young.
That’s probably why a traveling wolf pack stopped and waited to let its slowly moving leader catch up. Similar social ties may have caused a captive elephant to save her friend from drowning. Selfish reasons certainly motivated the male fox, who wanted to keep playing.
Sometimes, though, animals go out of their way to do what’s right, even when there’s nothing in it for them. Nobody knows why. “It might simply feel good to be kind, just as it does for humans,” says Bekoff.
If your friend wasn’t nice to you, what would you do? Maybe you would just walk away. That’s exactly what a wild red fox did when she was play-boxing with another fox. The larger fox, a male, began pushing too hard. The little female didn’t like fighting. She ran away quietly.
“He still wanted to play,” says Marc Bekoff. So the male fox ran after his playmate, bowed down, and rolled over. His body language meant, “Don’t leave. I’ll play nicely.” The female gave him another chance, and the male wrestled more gently this time.
71 How did the little female fox show her dissatisfaction with the larger male one? (no more than 5 words)
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Harald Kaas was sixty. His back became rounded, and he bent a little. His forehead, always of the broadest－no one else’s hat would fit him － was now one of the highest, that is to say, he had lost all his teeth, which were strong though small, and blackened by smoking. Now, instead of “deuce take it” he said “deush take it”. He had always held his hands half closed as though grasping something; now they stiffened so that he could never open them fully. The little finger of his ldft hand had been bitten off. According to Harald’s version of the story, the fellow swallowed the piece on the spot.
He was fond of showing off the ldft part, and it often served as an introduction to the history of brave adventures, which became greater and greater and greater as he grew older and quieter. His small sharp eyes were deep set and looked at one with great intensity. There wsa power in his individuality. He has no lack of self-respect.
His house, raised on an old foundation, looked out to the south over many islands; farther out were more islands and the open sea. Its eastern wing was barely half furnished, and the western inhabited by Harald Kaas. These wings were connected by a gallery, behind which were the fields and woods to the north.
In the gallery itself were heads of bears, wolves, foxes and lynxes and stuffed birds from land and sea. Skins and guns hung on the walls of the front room. The inner rooms were also full of skins and filled with the smell of wild animals and tobacco-smoke. Harald himself called it “man-smell”; no one who had once put his nose inside could ever forget it. Valuable and beautiful skins hung on the walls and sat, and walked on skins, and each one of them was a subject of conversation. Harald Kaas, seated in his log chair by the fireside, his feet on the bearskin, opened his shirt to show the scars on his hairy chest (and what scars they were) which had been made by a bears teeth, when he had driven his knife, right up to the end, into the monster’s heart. All the tables, and cupboards, and carved chairs listened in their silence.
68．Who or what most probably bit harald Kaass’ little finger off?
A．On of his fellow hunters
B．An adversary in a boxing match
C．A wild animal
D．One of his hunting dogs
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