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Next to snakes and crocs, Australians imagine sharks to be the country’s most dangerous creature. Tim Winton, an author, calls s

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问题     Next to snakes and crocs, Australians imagine sharks to be the country’s most dangerous creature. Tim Winton, an author, calls sharks "substitute for the Devil". Seven swimmers in three years have died from shark attacks in Mr. Winton’s home state of Western Australia. The state’s government, led by Colin Barnett, is now taking revenge.
    In late November a skilled surfer died from a shark attack. A week later a shark killed a 19-year-old in New South Wales. The tragedies fed public anxieties. Mr. Barnett ordered no-go zones for sharks to be set up offshore, marked by lines of baited hooks. Any shark caught on them more than three metres long was to be shot. The first shark caught in this strategy was shot on January 26th. Mr. Barnett says he has to "protect the people of Western Australia".
    But previously hostile popular attitudes towards sharks are shifting. Plenty of Western Australians , along with environmentalists and shark experts, deplore the new policy. In early January, at the height of the summer holiday season, more than 4,000 protesters swamped Cottesloe Beach in Perth, with signs reading "Save Our Sharks" and "Science Not Slaughter".
    Of Australia’s 180 or so shark species, only a few are dangerous to humans: chiefly, bull sharks, tiger sharks and great whites, which are protected under federal law. Their numbers have suffered from the trade in shark fins for soup in Asia, which Australia and others have banned. Nonetheless, the federal government has given its conservative counterpart in Western Australia an exemption from protecting great whites under its "catch-and-kill" policy.
    Despite the recent attacks, deaths from sharks are rare—an average of just one person a year for the past half-century around Australia’s vast coastline, says the Australian Shark Attack File, a research outfit at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. By contrast, an average of 120 people drown each year off beaches and in harbours and rivers. There has been no fatal shark attack at Bondi beach in Sydney, Australia’s most popular strand, since 1929.
We can infer from the last paragraph that ______.
选项 A、more people die from drowning every year than from sharks
B、there has not been any shark attack at Bondi beach since 1929
C、attacks from sharks are rare in the past five decades in Australia
D、incidents of shark attack often happen at the most popular beach
答案A
解析 根据最后一段的“deaths from sharks are rare—an average of just one person a year”和“an average of 120 people drown each year”我们可以判断A项的表述正确。选项B中的“not been any shark attack(没有任何鲨鱼袭击事件)”和原文最后一句的“no fatal shark attack(没有致命的鲨鱼袭击事件)”不一致，故错误。选项C“attacks from sharks are rare(鲨鱼袭击事件是很少见的)”与原文第一句“deaths from sharks are rare(因鲨鱼袭击而死亡的事件是很少见的)”看似接近，但该项把death换成了attack，属于偷换概念，因此也是错误的。选项D原文没有提到，属于无中生有。
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