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    　　Whales, like dolphins, belong to a group of mammals(哺乳动物)called “cetaceans”．This name comes from a Latin word meaning “large sea animal”．There are at least seventy-five kinds of cetaceans．Scientists divide the various kinds into two major groups－baleen whales, which do not have teeth, and toothed whales, which have teeth．

    　　Whales have the same basic shape as fish, but they differ from fish in many ways．The most noticeable difference is the tail．Fish have vertical(垂直的)tail fins(鳍), but whales have horizontal tail fins．Fish breathe by means of gills(腮), while whales have lungs(肺)and must come to the surface to breathe．But they can hold their breath for long periods．

    　　Like other mammals, whales give birth to live young and feed them with milk produced by the mother’s body．Most fish, however, lay eggs and do not feed their young．Whales are also warm-blooded－that is, their body temperature remains about the same all the time．Almost all fish are cold-blooded．Their body temperature changes with changes in the temperature of the water．

    　　Whales have a highly developed brain and they are highly advanced life forms．They sing to their young, engage in complex family relationships, and their communication skills are fine．

    　　In December 2005, a whale, after being rescued from fishing nets, didn’t just swim back to deep water．It hung around and touched each of the divers with its mouth．“Knowing that it was free, it stopped about a foot away from me, pushed me around a little bit and had some fun,” said dive master James Moskito．He thought it was “one of the most fantastic moments” of his life．

    (1)

    According to Paragraph 1, which of the following shows the correct relationship?

    [　　]

    A．

    Mammals are a type of cetacean．

    B．

    Cetaceans are not a type of mammal．

    C．

    Whales belong to the cetacean family．

    D．

    Mammals are a type of whale．

    (2)

    Which of the following is NOT a difference between whales and fish?

    [　　]

    A．

    Whales breathe by means of lungs．

    B．

    Whales have tail fins．

    C．

    Whales feed their young with milk．

    D．

    A whale’s body temperature nearly doesn’t change．

    (3)

    What are Paragraphs 2 and 3 mainly about?

    [　　]

    A．

    How whales catch their food．

    B．

    How whales live in the ocean．

    C．

    The differences between whales and fish．

    D．

    Whales are highly advanced life forms．

    (4)

    Why didn’t the whale swim back to the sea after it was saved?

    [　　]

    A．

    It lost its way in the sea．

    B．

    It was seriously wounded．

    C．

    It was frightened by the divers．

    D．

    It wanted to thank the divers．

    答案：1．C;2．B;3．C;4．D;
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    　　To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．

    　　What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．

    　　Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．

    　　But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．

    (1)

    The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    it made Christive evil

    B．

    it was the apple of Eden

    C．

    it came from a forbidden land

    D．

    it was religiously unacceptable

    (2)

    What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

    [　　]

    A．

    The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down

    B．

    There was little pregress in the study of the tomato

    C．

    The tomato was still refused in most western countries

    D．

    Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato

    (3)

    What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?

    [　　]

    A．

    To manke imself a hero

    B．

    To remove people's fear of the tomaoto

    C．

    To speed up the popularityt of the tomato

    D．

    To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory

    (4)

    What is the main purpose of the passage?

    [　　]

    A．

    To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato

    B．

    To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato

    C．

    To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato

    D．

    To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence

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