Part III Reading Comprehension(40minutes)

　　Section A

　　Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

　　When someone commits a criminal act, we always hope the punishment will match the offense. But when it comes to one of the crudest crimes-animal fighting-things _____ (27) work out that way. Dog-fighting victims are _____ (28) and killed for profit and killed for profit and "sport," yet their criminal abusers often receive a _____ (29) sentence for causing a lifetime of pain. Roughly half of all federally-convicted animal fighters only get probation (缓刑).

　　Some progress has been made in the prosecution (起诉) of animal fighters. But federal judges often rely heavily on the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines when they _____ (30) penalties, and in the case of animal fighting, those guidelines are outdated and extremely _____ (31).

　　The U.S. Sentencing Commission, which _____ (32) 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 _____ (33), 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 _____ (34) anticruelty laws across the country, as well as supporting laws and policies that assist overburdened animal _____ (35) that care for animal fighting victims. This help is_____ (36) important because the high cost of caring for animal victims is a major factor that prevents people from getting involved in cruelty cases in the first place.

　　【选项】

　　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

　　27.【题干】_____.

　　【答案】K

　　28.

　　【答案】O

　　29.

　　【答案】J

　　30.

　　【答案】D

　　31.

　　【答案】G

　　32.

　　【答案】B

　　33.

　　【答案】E

　　34.

　　【答案】M

　　35.

　　【答案】L

　　36.

　　【答案】C

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