Snake dishes have become popular in recent years. Snake meat in various flavorsi

Snake dishes have become popular in recentyears. Snake meat in various flavors（风味）is often seen in restaurant ads.It seems that eating snake is now in vogue（盛行）, and if you haven’t eaten snakeyet, you are considered “out of date”. But I wonder whether all of the trendsare worth following.

Some people may defend themselves by sayingthat snake meat is nutritious（有营养的）. But these people don’t realizethat mice and worms often comprise a snake’s diet, therefore, there are manyparasites（寄生虫）found inside snakes. Thus, they may do harmto our health. Apart from this, I’m sorry to see that more and more snakes arebeing killed by man’s cruel knife.

According to the English newspaper ShanghaiStar, about 1, 000 tons of snakes are eaten every year in China. In Shenzhen ofGuangdong Province, sometimes as many as 10 tons of snakes are served on dinnertables in a single day.

These figures alert us that if we still turnblind eyes to this continuous movement against snakes, a vicious cycle will becreated. If more snakes are eaten by people, the number of snakes will drop,which will make an increase in mice and worms population, which will result ina decrease of crop output. This will make more people hungry.

Who will see such tragedy happen?

So let’s start not to eat snakes any morebecause “to protect the snake is to protect ourselves”.

1．This passage tries to advicepeople ________.

A．to keep ourselves healthy

B．to protect snakes and not to eatthem

C．to protect mice and worms

D．not to eat mice and worms

2．The parasites in the snake comefrom ________.

A．its diet

B．mice

C．worms

D．snake meat

3．What will happen if we continueeating snakes?

A．More snakes will be eaten.

B．A vicious cycle will be created.

C．More people will turn blind eyesto it.

D．Mice will damage the crops.

4．The vicious cycle may be likethis: ________.

A．more snakes→more mice andworms→less crop output

B．less snakes→more mice andworms→more crop output

C．less snakes→more mice and worms→lesscrop output

D．more snakes→less mice andworms→more crop output

5．The best title of this passage is________.

A．Snake Meat in Various Flavors

B．Protect the Snake Is to ProtectOurselves

C．Eating Snakes in Vogue

D．Let’s Not Eat Snakes Any More

试题答案

答案：1B2A3B4C5D