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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brief passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage - I

Whales present such a picture of massiveness and power that you would never imagine they could be threatened by something as puny as a human. But once a year the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meets to decide whether they can be hunted again. Since the commercial whaling moratorium came into effect in 1986, what started out looking like at least a long pause in whaling soon  became a period of permanent tension between those who believe that human have an inherent right to kill whales and those who believe that whales have an inherent right to live.

The passage suggests that some people resort to whaling

A) because they consider it a sport                          

B) for the consumption of its flesh

C)  for commercial purposes                                

D) because they think whales to be a threat to fishermen