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.
13（）
A.unsustained
B.unrestrained
C.uncertified
D.unconfirmed
参考答案：B
解析：
[试题考点] 上下文语意关系与形容词词义辨析。
[解题思路] 本题空格所在句意为“如果不采取新的控制措施，捕鲸者将会继续屠杀鲸鱼______”。观察四个选项发现，它们都可作slaughter的后置定语，但由上文可知，冰岛和挪威捕鲸现象严重，并且会自行废除捕鲸禁令，由此可见，其捕鲸行为是肆无忌惮的，故只有选项[B]最符合文意。unrestrained意为“无节制的；放纵的”。
[干扰排除] 选项[A]unsustained意为“不持久的；不持续的”，选项[C]uncertified意为“未经证明的；未经核准的”，选项[D]unconfirmed意为“未证实的；未确认的”，将这三项代入文中，语意上都不符合逻辑，故可排除。