The International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) decision to retain its ban on whaling does not mean that the killings will stop. Quite the (1) .
Save the Whale. It’s a phrase which became annoying with (2) , an unfavorable shorthand for liberal consciences. How appalling, then, that in the year 2010, it should be pressed (3) service again, to fight the whaling nations: Norway and Iceland, who exempted themselves from the 1986 prohibition (4) by the IWC, and Japan, which hunts whales under cover of " (5) research".
I am completely (6) by this week’s events in Morocco, where talks broke down. In my heart, I agree with those who have (7) the news that this year’s negotiations of the IWC have broken up, and (8) the prohibition would not be lifted (as the US proposed in a desperate (9) to break the deadlock). Yet reason (10) something else. If we do not (11) some kind of new control, the (12) will be able to go on with their slaughter (13) . Membership of the IWC is (14) , and the ban was only ever intended to be (15) . Japan, which has been buying the votes of nations with no interest in whaling (only in the 16 Japan offers in turn), will continue to press its case, having invested millions of dollars in its (17) . Geoffrey Palmer, New Zealand’s Commissioner at the IWC, has proposed a year-long (18) period. In the meantime, more whales will die.
We stand at a crossroad for whales. We see the (19) existence of these animals as an indicator of ecological threat. As symbols of an endangered world, they evoke, and provoke, a feeling that they have the same qualities as human on a scale equal to their size and supposed (20) . To some this is so much sentimental words in the New Age.
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A.to
B.for
C.into
D.of
参考答案：C
解析：
[试题考点] 上下文语意关系与固定搭配。
[解题思路] 本题空格所在句的前部分指出，“保护鲸鱼”已经成为让人厌烦的陈词滥调，接着，空格所在句指出，How appalling...it should be pressed ______ service again...，其中it指代Save the Whale，即“再次将这一口号______多么令人震惊啊”。观察四个选项，只有选项[C]into符合文意，press sth into service是固定搭配，意为“临时把某物派上用场”，代人文中意为“2010年再次开始拯救鲸鱼的行动，多么令人震惊”。
[干扰排除] 选项[A]、[B]、[D]均无法填入空格形成符合文意的搭配，故排除。