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(B) Tilikum is the largest orca in captivity, weighing 12,500 pounds and measuring over 22feet in length. Captured near Iceland in 1983, he was wrenched from his mother as an infantby whale hunters and then 67 to Sealand in Canada. His original life being 68 ,the only thing he could do was swim in small circles and float aimlessly at the surface of thewater in a confined tank, far away from the expansive ocean in which he had swum ahundred miles a day alongside his family members. Food was withheld from him, a marine69 , as a training technique, and he regularly endured painful attacks by two dominantfemale orcas. After imposed training, he was forced to perform eight times a day for seven70 days a week. The constant stress and 71 exhaustion left him profoundpsychological and physical traumas. On February 21, 1991, a Sealand trainer fell into thepool containing all three orcas and was pulled to the bottom of the enclosure by Tilikum,tossed around among the three orcas, and 72 drowned. Shortly after the death of thetrainer, Sealand closed its doors for good and put Tilikum up for sale as though he was73 a commodity. Despite Tilikum’s reputation for killing and aggression, SeaWorld, atheme park giant, quickly purchased Tilikum and forced him to give 74 tricks toentertain tourists. There, again, Tilikum 75 his frustration and stress by exhibitingaggression toward humans, which cost two more lives. Similar tragedies are sure to ariseagain and again 76 that humans continue to exploit this marine creature forcommercial profit and for entertainment. 
(A) predator
(B) stunning
(C) disrupted
(D) anything but
(E) providing (F) consecutive (G) cumulative (H) if(I) transferred (J) channeled (K) nothing more than (L) eventually
【題組】67

參考答案

答案:A
難度:適中0.58209
統計:A(156),B(47),C(8),D(57),E(0)

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