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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 (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 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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【讲解答案】
C 读过文聿可知，开始是农民因为狐狸为害农场的禽畜而猎杀狐狸，后来成为富人的娱乐，用经 过特殊训练的狗来追捕狐狸然后将其杀死。接着猎狐者与阻拦者发生冲突，最后导致议会要通过 法律禁止用狗捕猎野生动物'所以可知道用狗来猎捕狐狸是残酷的、暴虐的。故C项是正确的?