False Fear of Big Fish

　　Many people believe sharks(鲨鱼)are dangerous and will always try to hurt or even killhumans.-(46)

　　A shark exhibition at the National Aquarium(水族馆)in Baltimore，US，proves this.

　　Visitors can touch young sharks.see their eggs develop and watch a dozen different speciesswim smoothly around a huge tank.

　　Most people fail to realize that shark attacks don’t happen very often.Humans are motelikely to be killed by lightning than by a shark.——(47)There，kids Call learn，from anearly age，not to fear sharks.

　　'People fear what they don’t know，”said Nancy Hotchkiss。an organizer of the exhibition.

　　“Sharks have been around for 400 million years and play 1til important role in the ocean’s foodchain.We want people to discover that sharks are amazing animals that need our respect andprotection.”

　　(48)A study ,published in January in the US magazine，Science，found thatalmost all recorded shark species have fallen by half in the past eight to 15 years.

　　Thousands of sharks are hunted in Asia for special foods，such as shark fin(鱼翅)soup.Andmany others get caught in nets，while fishermen are hunting other fish.——(49)

　　“Some fishing methods are actually cleaning out the ocean for sharks，”said Dave Schofield，the manager of the aquarium’s ocean health program me.——(50)

　　A They Call watch them develop inside their eggs and fee! the skin of the older swimmers

　　B A shocking 1 00 million sharks are killed every year around the world by humans.

　　C In fact,94 per cent of the world’s 400 species are harmless to humans

　　D It is a worrying situation and some areas have put measures in place to protect these special fish. 、

　　E And to make this point clear, the museum has set up a special touching pool for children.

　　F More than half of the sharks caught are smaller than 1 meter long.

　　Answers: 46.C 47.E 48.B 49.F 50.D