Câu hỏi:
18/03/2020 560Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, Cy or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man’s inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single drop.
Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No most skinned, water-loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found. The giants of the North American desert are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. Since desert country is open, it holds more swift-footed running and leaping creatures than the tangled forest. Its population is largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated.
Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere else in the word. The secret of their adjustment lies in the combination of behavior and physiology. None could survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they went out in the midday sun; many would die in a matter of minutes. So most of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath the ground, emerging to hunt only by night. The surface of the sun-baked desert averages around 150 degrees, but 18 inches down the temperature is only 60 degrees.
According to the passage, creatures in the desert .
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Đáp án A.
Key words: creatures, desert.
Clue: Since desert country is open, it holds more swift- footed running and leaping creatures than the tangled forest: Vì vùng sa mạc có diện tích mở, nơi đó có những loài sinh vật di chuyến nhanh nhạy và hay chạy nhảy hơn vùng rừng núi rậm rạp.
Dựa vào clue thì ta thấy rằng đáp án chính xác là A.
A. run and leap faster than those in the tangled forest: chạy nhanh hơn những con vật trong rừng núi rậm rạp.
B. run and leap more slowly than those in the tangled forest: chạy chậm hơn những con vật trong rừng núi rậm rạp.
C. are more active during the day than those in the tangled forest: ban ngày hoạt động tích cực hơn những con vật trong rừng núi rậm rạp.
D. are not as healthy as those anywhere else in the world: không khỏe mạnh như bất cứ con nào khác trên thế giới.
MEMORIZE |
- leap (n): nhảy qua, nhảy cách quãng (v): nhảy qua, vượt qua - leap in the dark: một hành động tiểu tĩnh, mạo hiểm - by leaps and bounds: rất nhanh - to leap at an opportunity: nấm ngay /ấy cơ hội |
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