Câu hỏi:
13/07/2023 1,599
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of thequestions from 6 to 12.
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 dessert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist- skinned, water – loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found: the giants of the North America 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 populations are 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 in the world.
The secret of their adjustment lies in a 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.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of thequestions from 6 to 12.
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 dessert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist- skinned, water – loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found: the giants of the North America 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 populations are 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 in the world.
The secret of their adjustment lies in a 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.
What is the topic of the passage?
Đáp án chính xác
Câu hỏi trong đề:
Bộ 4 Đề thi Tiếng Anh 12 Học kì 2 có đáp án !!
Sách mới 2k7: Tổng ôn Toán, Lí, Hóa, Văn, Sử, Địa…. kỳ thi tốt nghiệp THPT Quốc gia 2025, đánh giá năng lực (chỉ từ 110k).
Quảng cáo
Trả lời:
Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án B.
Câu hỏi cùng đoạn
Câu 2:
The word “desiccating” means____.
Đáp án chính xác
Lời giải của GV VietJack
Đáp án C.
Câu 3:
The phrase “those forms” refers to all of the following EXCEPT
Đáp án chính xác
Lời giải của GV VietJack
Đáp án C.
Câu 4:
The author states that one characteristic of animals that live in the desert is that they ____.
Đáp án chính xác
Lời giải của GV VietJack
Đáp án B.
Câu 5:
Which of the following generalizations are supported by the passage?
Đáp án chính xác
Lời giải của GV VietJack
Đáp án A.
Câu 6:
The word “they” in paragraph 3 refers to____.
Đáp án chính xác
Lời giải của GV VietJack
Đáp án D.
Câu 7:
The author mentions all the following as examples of the behavior of desert animals EXCEPT
Đáp án chính xác
Lời giải của GV VietJack
Đáp án B.
Nhà sách VIETJACK:
CÂU HỎI HOT CÙNG CHỦ ĐỀ
Câu 1:
Chimpanzees in the wild like to snack on termites, and youngsters learn to fish for them by pocking long sticks and other (1)……..tools into the mounds that large groups of termites build.
Xem đáp án »
13/07/2023
3,172
Câu 2:
Researchers found that (2)…………average female chimps in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania learnt how to do termite fishing at the age of 31 months, more than two years earlier than the males.
Xem đáp án »
13/07/2023
2,769
Câu 4:
Researcher Dr. Elisabeth V. Lonsdorf, director of field conservation at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, said that it is (3)………….to find that, when a young male and female are near a mound, ‘she’s really focusing on termite fishing and he’s spinning himself round (4)………..circles’.
Xem đáp án »
13/07/2023
1,071
Câu 5:
Which of the following is true of the way the game was played by wealthy gentlemen at its inception?
Xem đáp án »
13/07/2023
1,037
Câu 6:
Researcher Dr. Elisabeth V. Lonsdorf, director of field conservation at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, said that it is (3)………….to find that, when a young male and female are near a mound, ‘she’s really focusing on termite fishing and he’s spinning himself round (4)………..circles’.
Xem đáp án »
13/07/2023
895
về câu hỏi!