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大英四复习：Reading Comprehension There are two passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. The Great Australian Fence Section A A war has been going on for almost a hundred years between the sheep farmers of Australia and the dingo, Australias wild dog. To protect their livelihood, the farmers built a wire fence,3.307 miles of continuous wire mesh, reaching from the coast of South Australia all the way to the cotton fields of eastern Queensland Just short of the Pacific Ocean. The Fence is Australias version of the Great Wall of China, but even longer, erected to keep out hostile invaders, in this case hordes of yellow dogs. The empire it preserves is that of the woolgrowers, sovereigns of the worlds second largest sheep flock — after Chinas some 123 million head — and keepers of a wool export business worth four billion dollars. Never mind that more and more people — conservationists, politicians, taxpayers and animal lovers — say that such a barrier would never be allowed today on ecological grounds. With sections of it almost a hundred years old, the dog fence has become, as conservationist Lindsay Pair weather ruefully admits, an icon of Australian frontier ingenuity. Section B To appreciate this unusual outback monument and to meet the people whose livelihoods depend on it, T spent par! of an Australian autumn travelling the wire. Its known by different names in different states; the Dog Fence in South Australia, the Border Fence in New South Wales and the Barrier Fence in Queensland. I would call it simply the Fence. For most of its prodigious length, this epic fence winds like a river across a landscape that, unless a big rain has fallen, scarcely has rivers. The eccentric route, prescribed mostly by property lines, provides a sampler of outback topography; the Fence goes over sand dune