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  3. Foxes and farmers have never got on well. These small dog-like animals have long been accused of killing farm animals. They are

Foxes and farmers have never got on well. These small dog-like animals have long been accused of killing farm animals. They are

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问题     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 trousers, 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 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 have become so common that they are almost as much a part of hunting as the pursuit of foxes itself. But this 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. (324 words)
Rich people in Britain have been hunting foxes______.
选项 A、for recreation
B、in the interests of the farmers
C、to limit the fox population
D、to show off their wealth
答案A
解析 本题属于细节推断题。由“rich”定位到第三段最后一句的“expensive”和“wealthy”，其相关内容从第三段的第一句可知人们把猎狐当成一项运动(think of it as a sport)，选项A“为了消遣”，是该句的同义转述。B“为了控制狐狸数量”是农夫猎狐的目的，不是富人的目的，应排除。C“为了农夫的利益”和D“为了炫耀他们的财富”在文中未提，应排除。
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