D. She had a veterinarian to help her.
3. Conservation officers ordered Janet to loose Bimbo because
A. the deer was not properly taken care of
B. the deer brought harm to the neighborhood
C. it was against the law to keep the deer as a pet
D. the deer made too much noise
4. What made the government change its mind?
A. Schwartz’s love for the deer.
B. The threat to the deer in the wild.
C. The change of the law.
D. The influence from the press and the Web.
A篇1--4 BCCD
B
Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he is introduced to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest headed chatterbox (喋喋不休的人). He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure (蜡塑人像).
The aim of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito (蚊子). But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors.
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