sitifan
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The English upper classes have always enjoyed fox hunting. A hundred years ago a gentleman who did not meet his friends and neighbours to hunt after church on Sunday mornings seemed strange to them.
But nowadays there are many people who take an active interest in preventing hunters from enjoying themselves. They used to lay false trails for the dogs, which spoiled the hunt because the dogs often followed their cars along the main road while the fox watched them going past from the safety of a nearby field.
But now they are buying land in areas where hunting takes place and have written to Princess Anne and her husband, who are keen hunters, saying they will be taken to court, like anyone else, if they ride across it. I wonder what the Iron Duke would have said about that.
(Cloze Tests, by Yang Jinfang)
Who is the Iron Duke referred to in the above passage? The author Yang Jinfang says it refers to Prince Charles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Duke
But nowadays there are many people who take an active interest in preventing hunters from enjoying themselves. They used to lay false trails for the dogs, which spoiled the hunt because the dogs often followed their cars along the main road while the fox watched them going past from the safety of a nearby field.
But now they are buying land in areas where hunting takes place and have written to Princess Anne and her husband, who are keen hunters, saying they will be taken to court, like anyone else, if they ride across it. I wonder what the Iron Duke would have said about that.
(Cloze Tests, by Yang Jinfang)
Who is the Iron Duke referred to in the above passage? The author Yang Jinfang says it refers to Prince Charles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Duke
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