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the savannahs of eastern and southern Africa and the forests of central Africa.
Some biologists reckon the forest ones-smaller, with shorter, straighter
tusks-may even constitute a distinct species. But not for long, at the latest
rate of poaching. The high price of ivory is increasing the incentive to kill
elephants everywhere in Africa, and especially in places where there is
virtually no law. The latest reports suggest that the forest elephant population is collapsing on the back of rising Chinese demand for ivory. Some conservationists argue that a recent decision by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to auction 108 tonnes of stockpiled ivory from southern Africa may be prompting more poaching in central and eastern Africa, as criminals seek to mix illicit i A. Biological evidences are insufficient to support this point of view. B. The high price of ivory entices more killings of elephants. C. Their number is too small to be of a species. D. A serious disease broke out among the elephants and sharply decreased their number. [单项选择]Eliot’s interested in poetry in about 1902 with the discovery of Romantic. He had recalled how he was initiated into poetry by Edward Fitzgerald’s Omar Khayyam at the age of fourteen. "It was like a sudden conversion", he said, an "overwhelming introduction to a new world of feeling." From then on, till about his twentieth year of age (1908), he took intensive courses in Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Rossetti and Swinburne.
It is, no doubt, a period of keen enjoyment... At this period, the poem, or the poetry of a single poet, invades the youthful consciousness and assume complete possession for a time... The frequent result is an outburst of scribbling which we may call imitation... It is not deliberate choice of a poet to mimic, but writing under a kind of daemonic possession by one poet. Thus, the young Eliot started his career with a mind preoccupied by certain Romantic poets. His imitative scribbling survives in the Harvard Eliot Collection, a part of which is pub A. Edward Fitzgerald’s poems B. Romantic poets C. Classical literature D. Romantic literature 我来回答: 提交
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