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.
4（）
A.supported
B.instituted
C.limited
D.abandoned
参考答案：B
解析：
[试题考点] 上下文语意关系和动词词义辨析。
[解题思路] 本题空格位于修饰Norway and Iceland的定语从句中，该从句的谓语exempt...from...意为“使……免于；使……从……解除”，故整个句子意为“他们自行废除了1986年由国际捕鲸委员会______的禁令”，空格处应填入一个动词，表明“禁令”与“国际捕鲸委员会”之间的关系，很显然，禁令是由国际捕鲸委员会制定或颁布的，四个选项中能表示这一意思的，只有选项[B]。institute作动词时意为“设市；制定(规则或习俗)”。
[干扰排除] 选项[A](be)supported(by)意为“为……所支持”，代入文中意为“他们自行废除了1986年IWC支持的禁令”，虽然IWC是支持此禁令的，但说IWC的职责是制定禁令更符合常识，放排除该选项。选项[C](be)limited(by)意为“被……限制”，选项[D](be) abandoned(by)意为“被……遗弃，抛弃”，代入文中意为“国际捕鲸委员会‘限制’或者‘摒弃’了禁捕令”，这与文章中“IWC要保留捕鲸令”不符，故排除。