Câu hỏi:
18/03/2020 1,736Read 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, one characteristic of animals living in the desert is that .
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Trả lời:
Đáp án A.
Key words: characteristic, animals living in the desert.
Clue:
1. Since desert country is open, it holds more swiftfooted running and leaping creatures than the tangled forest: Vì vùng sa mạc có diện tích mở, nơi đó có những loài sinh vật di chuyển nhanh nhạy và hay chạy nhảy hơn vùng rừng núi rậm rạp.
2. Few large animals are found: ít loài động vật lớn được tìm thấy.
Dựa vào 2 clue trên ta thấy rằng đáp án phù họp nhất là A.
A. they are smaller and fleeter than forest animals: chúng nhỏ hơn và nhanh hơn động vật rừng.
B. they are less healthy than animals living in other places: chúng không khỏe mạnh bằng các động vật sống ở những nơi khác.
C. they can hunt in temperature of 150 degrees: chúng có thể đi săn ở nhiệt độ 150 độ.
D. they live in an accommodating environment: chúng sống trong một môi trường dễ thích nghi.
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