2014届高三英语二轮【完形填空突破-3真2模含解析】30
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从1—15各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
Where did all the tigers go? That’s what Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wants to know. India’s Sariska Project Tiger Reserve,once home to 26 tigers,is now home to none. Singh has ordered a police investigation into the (1) ,and created a new taskforce to save the (2) animals.
Tigers are an endangered species(物种).Half of t he world’s tiger (3) live in India. For years,tigers have been disappearing from India’s national parks,but Sariska may be the last straw. And the government has to (4) .
On Thursday,Singh held the first meeting of (5) officials,wildlife experts,and related leaders,aiming to (6) the nation’s remaining tigers,a nd to (7) a plan to keep them safe.
It is not hard to guess why the tigers are disappearing. Poachers(偷猎者)can (8) the big cats for$50,000 each. Tiger skin and bones are popular in Chinese (9).A single tiger tooth can fetch $120.Recently,a group of poachers admitted killing ten tigers in Sariska and were (10) .
"Indian tiger poaching is probably the (11) conservation problem in modern times,"said Belinda Wright,the head of the Wildlife Protection Society of India.