Question

9．Lost forever
Most people have heard about Didus ineptus，or the dodo，as it is more commonly known．It was the flightless，long-extinct（灭绝的）member of the dove family that lived in the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius．The name"dodo"comes from the Portuguese and means"a person who is foolish"；（31）C，to call someone a"dodo"（32）Atheir stupidity．The dodo was a foolish creature about the size of a turkey and was easily fooled by sailors who tapped on trees to（33）Cits attention．It would come（34）D towards the sound and was easily caught and whisked on board ship to become a valuable source of fresh，but tough meat．
Another expression to appear from the（35）Abird's situation is to say that something is"as dead as a dodo"，which means long since dead，very much（36）B，or deserted．Of the many animals that people have removed from the face of the earth，the dodo has probably made the greatest contribution to our（37）D．
Another less well-known but（38）Bextinct bird is Aepyornis maximus，more commonly known as the elephant bird of Madagascar．This creature（39）Ca very thickset，three-metre-tall emu（鸸鹋）（40）Dover half a ton and is thought to be the largest bird that ever lived．It was big in every way，even its eggs were extremely large．An elephant bird egg could measure up to ninety centimetres in diameter and（41）C nine liters of liquid，about 200 ordinary chicken eggs．The eggs were in fact three times larger than dinosaur eggs．
  It's hard to imagine how impressive the elephant bird must have been as it walked about proudly in its natural habitat．For thousands of years its size（42）Awas enough to scare the meat-eating animals．（43）Bit was a flightless bird，its sharp claws and powerful neck and beak ensured it could look after itself-that is，up until the Europeans arrived on Madagascar．They not only hunted elephant birds for food but began（44）Ctheir eggs as gifts．Sadly it was made（45）Daround I700，and the world became a much poorer place because of it

31．A．however	B．but	C．therefore	D．usually
32．A．refers to	B．leads to	C．sticks to	D．comes to
33．A．concentrate	B．fix	C．attract	D．focus
34．A．swimming	B．flying	C．trembling	D．running
35．A．unfortunate	B．unkind	C．unfair	D．unable
36．A．fashionable	B．outdated	C．updated	D．powerful
37．A．tradition	B．society	C．custom	D．language
38．A．continually	B．equally	C．carefully	D．officially
39．A．felt like	B．would like	C．looked like	D．sounded like
40．A．taking	B．looking	C．measuring	D．weighing
41．A．included	B．existed	C．contained	D．examined
42．A．alone	B．lonely	C．only	D．just
43．A．As though	B．Even though	C．As if	D．Even so
44．A．making	B．cooking	C．collecting	D．counting
45．A．disappeared	B．free	C．known	D．extinct

Answer 1

分析 介绍了一种灭绝已久的鸟----dodo鸟，并介绍几个与之相关的短语．

解答 31-35 CACDA 36-40 BDBCD 41-45 CABCD
31．C 考察连词．根据上下文语境此处表示因果关系，therefore因此，符合题意．
32．A 考察动词短语．把愚蠢的人称为"dodo"，即refer  to动词短语，指代．
33．C 考察动词．attract one‘s attention是固定短语，吸引某人的注意力．
34．D考察分词． 前文提到 was easily fooled by sailors 很容易被欺骗，所以一听到声音就一路跑来．
35．A 考察形容词．根据第一段的介绍这种鸟是不幸运的． 
 36．考察形容词．根据后句or deserted可知outdated为过时的，两者并列．
37．D考察名词．前面介绍了和 dodo鸟相关的两个短语，所以对人类贡献的是语言方面．
38．B 考察副词．前面的dodo鸟濒临灭绝，另外一个同样extinct bird 的鸟．
39．C考察动词短语．look like 是动词短语，看起来很像． 
40．D考察分词．  over half a ton 说的是重量，所以用weight，二者是主动关系．
41．C  考察动词．蛋里含有nine liters of liquid…contain此处时含有的意思．
42．A考察副词．根据句意，单从尺寸上看，alone此处是单独的．
43．B 考察连接词．根据句意even though引导让步状语从句．
44．C 考察分词．collect意思是收集，和主语They是主动关系，所以用现在分词形式．
45．D考察形容词．介绍的这个鸟，早在大约1700年就灭绝了，是一件伤心的事情．

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