阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最 佳选项。
A Japanese farmer bought a big foreign tractor to grow his corn and apples in northern Japan. The giant tractor __ _the waste land into fields at an amazing speed.___ __, he was troubled by the damage caused by raccoon dogs .Just when the sweet corn was ready to be____ __,it was ruined.
“I placed___ ___in several places around the fields,but ended up trapping a young raccoon dog. The mother stayed next to it,and didn’t_____ __when I approached. When I tried _____ ___ out to release the trap,the young raccoon dog bared its _____ ___and got really upset. It seems cruel,but I held its head down with my rubber boot _____ ____I released it from the trap. It didn’t run away,though. Right in front of ____ __, the mother started licking the young one’s ___ ____ leg. Seeing that, I felt committed an awful crime. “
“I_____ ____told them ‘Stop eating our corny But then I started leaving small piles of second rate corn around the ____ __of the fields. They’re not good enough to sell. The next morning when I went to the fields, they’d completely _____ __. But the raccoon dogs had caused ___ ___more damage at all. So at harvest time I decided to ____ ___using the traps and put out the corncobs without kernels .After that,__ ___ by the raccoon dogs stopped almost completely. So I figured that farmers suffer this sort of damage because they ___ _ _everything. After all,we,d turned what used to__ _ the raccoon dogs into fields. I worried that if I actually fed them,the raccoon dogs would even more __ _ ,but that didn’t happen.
I suppose you could say that my eyes were opened to the mysteries of nature. Anyway,I realized that nature didn’t work in the __ _ that most people thought.”
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A.divided |
B.developed |
C.transformed |
D.transport |
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A.Therefore |
B.However |
C.Meanwhile |
D.Moreover |
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A.raised |
B.hunted |
C.grown |
D.harvested |
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A.traps |
B.nets |
C.sticks |
D.forces |
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A.break away |
B.runaway |
C.jump up |
D.turn up |
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A.handing |
B.taking |
C.standing |
D.reaching |
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A.claws |
B.neck |
C.teeth |
D.mouth |
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A.as |
B.because |
C.unless |
D.after |
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A.wounded |
B.folded |
C.deserted |
D.exhausted |
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A.seldom |
B.almost |
C.hardly |
D.once |
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A.trees |
B.soil |
C.edges |
D.hut |
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A.disappeared |
B.died |
C.melted |
D.escaped |
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A.a little |
B.a bit |
C.much |
D.no |
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A.begin |
B.continue |
C.stop |
D.delay |
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A.waste |
B.damage |
C.holes |
D.crops |
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A.take |
B.bring |
C.give |
D.lose |
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A.refer to |
B.turn to |
C.belong to |
D.lead to |
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A.fight |
B.bother |
C.scare |
D.cheer |
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A.sense |
B.form |
C.course |
D.way |
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