Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one wordfor each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank isidentified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in thebank more than once.
Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.
When someone commits a criminal act, we always hope the punishment will match the offense.But when it comes to one of the cruelest crimes--animal fighting--things【26】 work out that way.Dog-fighting victims are【 27 】and killed for profit and "sport," yet their criminal abusers oftenreceive a【28 】sentence for causing a lifetime of pain. Roughly half of all federally-convicted animalfighters only get probation (缓刑).
Some progress has been made in the prosecution (起诉) of animal fighters. But federal judgesoften rely heavily on the U. S. Sentencing GuideLines when they【29 】penalties, and in the case ofanimal fighting, those guidelines are outdated and extremely 【30】.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission, which 【31】 these sentencing guidelines, is revisiting them,proposing to raise the minimum sentence from 6 - 12 to 21 - 27 months. This is a step in the right 【32】, but we'd like to see the U. S. Sentencing Commission make further changes to the guidelines.
Along with this effort, we're working with animal advocates and state and federal lawmakers to【33 】anti-cruelty laws across the country, as well as supporting laws and policies that assistoverburdened animal 【34】 that care for animal fighting victims. This help is 【35 】importantbecause the high cost of caring for animal victims is a major factor that prevents people from gettinginvolved in cruelty cases in the first place.
A. convenient
B. creates
C. critically
D. determine
E. direction
F. hesitate
G. inadequate
H. inspired
I. method
J. minimal
K. rarely
L. shelters
M. strengthen
N. sufferings
O. tortured
参考答案：
26．K.rarely
27．O.tortured
28．J.minimal
29．D.determine
30．G.inadequate
31．B.creates
32．E)direction
33．M.strengthen
34．L.shelters
35．C.critically