6. 次の英文を読み, 以下の設問に答えよ。
legally as a *trophy. In 2003, a lone hunter killeda rhino on a legal safari in
South Africa and brought it back to Asia. Dozens of poachers soon followed.
The sound of rifles being fired could be heard in the dark forest just as
each paying $50,000 for a hunt. It seems like a lot to pay, but poachers can
Damien Mander arrived at his campfire after a long day training *game ranger
make as much as $200,000 in profits by selling a pair of horns on *the black
recruits in Zimbabwe's Nakavango *game reserve. "There, near the eastern
market.
boundary," he pointed. He and his rangers grabbed their guns, radios, and
ull
Many officials in Vietnam are fighting back against reports that the country
medical kits. They then drove into the night, hoping to stop the shooter.
is the main market for rhino horn, stating that rhino horn bound for Vietnam
(21)
And so goes a night on the front lines of southern Africa's ruthless * rhino
is merely in transit for another country. Do Quang Tung, deputy director of
war, which has seen more than a thousand rhinos killed since 2006. At the
CITES Managing Authority in Vietnam, said the country "could not be the main
bloody heart of this conflict is the rhino's horn, a prized ingredient in traditional
market for South African rhino horn," claiming that the majority of Vietnamese
Asian medicine. Prices range from $33 to $133 a gram, which at the top end is
people would not be able to ( 26 ) rhino horn. Even if there is an emerging
double the price of gold.
group of people who can ( 26 ) it, he thinks it is too small to make the country
Although the range of the two African species 一 the white rhino and its
a significant consumer. Professor Dang Huy Huynh, chairman of the Vietnam
smaller cousin, the black rhino- has been reduced primarily to southern Africa
Zoological Society, says that rhino horn has never been a popular ingredient in
and Kenya, their populations had shown signs of improvement. In 2007 white
traditional medicine.
rhinos numbered 17,470, while blacks had nearly doubled to 4,230 since the mid
Recently, there has been a renewed interest in the unproven belief that rhino
90s.
horn has healing power. For at least 2,000 years, Asian medicine has prescribed
For conservationists these numbers represented a triumph. In the 1970s
rhino horn to reduce fever and treat a range of illnesses, but the handful of
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and '80s, *poaching had nearly caused the two species to become extinct. Ther
studies which have been conducted on rhino horn have not found any proof that
China banned rhino horn from traditional medicine, and Yemen forbade its ust
it can reduce fever. The newest rumor is that it cures cancer, but doctors say
in ceremonial knife handles. All signs pointed to better days. But in 2008 th
the proof is nonexistent一 no research has been published on the horn's efficacy
23)
number of poached rhinos in South Africa shot up to 83, from just 13 in 200'
as a cancer treatment. But even if rhino horn is not an effective cure for
anything, let alone cancer, that doesn't mean it has no effect, says Mary Hardy.
By 2010 the figure had soared to 333, followed by over 400 in 2011. Most of th
27)
medical director of Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology. "Belief
horn trade was found to lead to Southeast Asia.
in a treatment, especially one that is wildly expensive and hard to get, can have
*Javan rhinos once lived in Vietnam's forests. ( 24 ) It had a bullet
a powerful effect on how a patient feels," she says.
its leg and its horn had been removed.
In any event, John Hume believes no rhinos need to die to supply the rhino
Even with the rhinos gone, rhino horn can still be found in Vietnam. This
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horn to those who want it. The 69-year-old * entrepreneur has acquired one of
because South African law, which complies with the Convention on Internatio
the largest privately-owned rhino herds in the world, and currently has more
Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), allowS a rhino's horn to be expor
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文中の下線部22の説明として、最も適するものをア~エの中から一つ選
び、その記号を解答欄にマークせよ。
never-ending
ts base, it wwill grow back in two years. That means there 1sS a
supply of rhino horn."
ア、Both white rhinos and black rhinos rose in number.
Both white rhinos and black rhinos were nearly extinct.
Hume Suggests harvesting rhino horn is the next step in preserving t.
animals. Conservationists argue that legalizing rhino horn wont change th。
ウ、 The rhino's horn price went up rapidly.
エ、White rhinos killed almost all of the black rhinos.
essential economics of poachingーthat poached horn is always going to he
23 ] 文中の下線部23の説明として, 最も適するものをア~エの中から一つ選
び、その記号を解答欄にマークせよ。
cheaper than farmed horn. Hume disagrees: As buyers become confident in th.
availability of legal horn, prices will fall, which will prompt crime syndicates to
leave the business. "The fundamental difference is that poachers go after rhino
ア、People in poor countries would become happier.
horn for easy short-term profit. Farmers are in it for years of steady returns."
イ. The agreements would make some countries richer.
(Adapted from ACTIVE SKILLS FOR READING 4 third edition
ウ. The time would come when people could buy rhino horn easily.
by Neil J Anderson)(一部改変)
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Things wouldgo better because of the prohibitions.
エ。
(注)
game ranger :野生動物保護官
*game reserve:動物保護区
n Jedr *rhino: サイ
24 ] 文中の空所( 24 )に次の英文ア~エを並べ換えて入れ,意味の通る段
*poaching:密猟
d *trophy : (動物の頭·角 毛皮などの狩猟時の)記念物
* Javan: ジャワ島の
Gdh 落を作るとき, 4番目に来る英文として, 最も適するものをア~エの中か
*the black market:非合法の市場
ら一つ選び,その記号を解答欄にマークせよ。
*entrepreneur : 起業家, 事業家
olgpeア. At first, a number of local wildlife conservation groups, working
mpcos mood nd dnty hia
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closely with the Vietnam government, tried to prevent the species
び,その記号を解答欄にマークせよ。
Hloilorau from dying out.
イ. Cat Tien Park in southern Vietnam was established in 1998 from
cruel
イ. harmful 実を与んる
ウ, selfish H中
three existing protected areas, partly to protect local rhinos.
エ. tolerant
In 2010, the dead body of what many believe to be the last wild
rhino in Vietnam was found.
エ. They achieved some early successes in halting illegal hunting, but
in the end, they could not stop the poachers.
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[ 25 ] 文中の下線部25の理由として. 最も適するものをア~エの中から、
び、その記号を解答欄にマークせよ。
合法的に狩猟記念物として輸出している国があるから。
イ、非合法的手段により狩猟記念物として輸入する人がいるから。
ウ、非合法の市場を通じて薬として流通することがあるから。
ベトナムが第三国への流通拠点となっているから。
たぶん
[ 26 ) 文中の空所( 26 )に共通して入る語として, 最も適するものをアー
の中から一つ選び, その記号を解答欄にマークせよ。
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Mary Hardy would agree that ( 27 ). S の中
ア. no one should use rhino horn as a medicine until we know that it is
safe
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文中の下線部28に関する次の英文に対する答えとして. 最も適するもの
をア~エの中から一つ選び, その記号を解答欄にマークせよ。
What does he suggest asa solution to the problem of poaching?
ア、 To abolish the black market by shutting down the crime syndicates.
To allow the harvesting of rhino horn from wild rhinos as part of a
safari.
To make people more aware that rhino horn does not cure cancer.
tubedbdエ, To remove part of the horn of captive rhinos as it can grow back.
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