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(2) Native Americans could not understand the white man’s war on the wolf. The Lakota, Blackfeet, and Shoshone, among other tribes, considered the wolf their spiritual brother. __56___ They draped themselves in wolf skins and paws, hoping they could acquire the wolf’s hunting skills of stealth, courage, and stamina. Plains Indians wore wolf-skin disguises on raiding parties. Elite Comanche warriors were called wolves.     The white settlers’ war on the wolf raged on. Western ranchers continued to claim that thousands of cattle were killed every year by wolves. In 1884, Montana created its first wolf bounty—one dollar for every dead wolf, which increased to eight dollars in 1893. Over a period of thirty-five years, more than eighty thousand wolf carcasses were submitted for bounty payments in Montana. Moreover, the government even provided free poison. __57___     The last wolves in the American West died hard. No place was safe, not even the nation’s first national park, Yellowstone. __58___ Nearly 140 wolves were killed by park rangers in Yellowstone from 1914 to 1926. In October 1926, two wolf cubs were trapped near a bison carcass. They were the last animals killed in the park’s wolf control programs.     Ranchers had won the war against the wolf. Only in the northern woods of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan could the howl of native gray wolves be heard. The vast lands of the American West fell silent. __59___ 
(A) The park was created in 1872, and from its very beginning, poisoned carcasses were set out to kill wolves. 
(B) Finally, in 1914, ranchers persuaded the United States Congress to provide funds to exterminate wolves on public lands. 
(C) The country had lost its greatest predator. 
(D) They respected the animals’ endurance and hunting ability, and warriors prayed to hunt like them.
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答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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