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【題目】Let These Plants Swat the Bugs for You Some plants get so hungry that they eat flies，spiders, and even small frogs. What's more amazing is that these plants occur naturally (in special environments) in every state. In fact, they're found on every continent except Antarctica.

You've probably seen a Venus' flytrap. It's often sold in museum gift stores, department stores, and even supermarkets. A small plant，it grows 6 to 8 inches tall in a container. At the end of its stalks (are specially modified leaves that act like traps. Inside each trap is a lining of tiny trigger (觸發(fā))hairs. When an insect lands on them, the trap suddenly shut. Over the course of a week or so, the plant feeds on its catch.

The Venus' flytrap is just one of more than 500 species of meat-eating plants， says Barry Meyers-Rice ， the editor of the International Carnivorous Plant Society's Newsletter. Note： Despite any science-fiction stories (科幻小說(shuō))you might have read, no meat-eating plant does any danger to humans.

Dr. Meyers-Rice says a plant is meat-eating, only if it does all four of the following："attract, kill, digest, and absorb" some form of insect, including flies, butterflies, and moths. Meat-eating plants look and act like other green plants—well, most of the time.

All green plants make sugar through a process called photosynthesis (光合作用). Plants use the sugar to make food. What makes "meat-eating" plants different is their bug-catching leaves. They need insects for one reason ： nitrogen (氮). Nitrogen is a nutrient that they can't obtain any other way. Why?

Almost all green plants on our planet get nitrogen from the soil. "Meat-eating" plants can't. They live in places where nutrients are hard or almost impossible to get from the soil because of its acidity (酸度). So they've come to rely on getting nitrogen from insects and small animals. In fact, nutrient-rich soil is poisonous to "meat-eating" plants. Never fertilize (施肥)them! But don't worry, either, if they never seem to catch any insects. They can survive, but they'll grow very slowly.

【1】 Venus flytrap ______.

A. is a small plant which grows in a container

B. is a kind of plant which gets hungry easily

C. can attract, kill， digest and absorb some form of insects

D. grows 6—8 inches tall

【2】 From the passage, we know ______.

A. "meat-eating" plants are found on every continent

B. all green plants get nitrogen from the soil

C. bug-catching leaves make "meat-eating" different from other plants

D. some "meat-eating" plants in the rainforest do danger to humans

【3】 "Meat-eating" plants grow very slowly, ______.

A. so you'd better fertilize them

B. probably because the source of nitrogen is cut off

C. simply because they can't absorb nitrogen from the soil

D. and then they will die slowly

【4】 Which of the following is true?

A. "Meat-eating" plants look and act like other green plants.

B. No insects, no "meat-eating" plants.

C. The reason why Venus flytrap needs flies is that it needs to get nutrient from them.

D. Green plants make sugar at night.

Answer 1

【答案】【1】 C

【2】 C

【3】 B

【4】 C

【解析】【1】推理判斷題。根據(jù)全文大意，Venus flytrap 是“食肉植物”的一種，而它們都能夠做到四步"attract, kill， digest and absorb some form of insects"。由第二段第三句 A small plant, it grows 6 to 8 inches tall in a container. 可知長(zhǎng)在容器里的Venus flytrap 是6到8英寸，但這并不是它們共有的特征。所以C項(xiàng)符合題意。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段最后一句，可知A項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤；根據(jù)最后一段第一句和第二句,可知B項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤；根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段第三句，可知C項(xiàng)正確；根據(jù)第三段最后一句，可知D項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段最后兩句，可知如果它們不能逮到昆蟲(chóng),它們能存活，只是生長(zhǎng)得很慢。

【4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段最后一句的most of the time, 可知A項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤；不存在B項(xiàng)這樣的邏輯關(guān)系；根據(jù)第五段最后三句可知C項(xiàng)正確；根據(jù)第五段第一句，可知植物是通過(guò)光合作用來(lái)制造糖的，而光合作用是發(fā)生在白天的。