C
Along the river banks of the Amazon and the Orinoco there lives a bird that swims before it can fly, flies like a fat chicken, eats green leaves, has the stomach of a cow and has claws (爪) on its wings when young. They build their homes about 4.6m above the river, an important feature (特征) for the safety of the young. It is called the hoatzin. In appearance, the birds of both sexes look very much alike with brown on the back and cream and red on the underside. The head is small, with a large set of feathers on the top, bright red eyes, and blue skin. Its nearest relatives are the common birds, cuckoos. Its most striking feature, though, is only found in the young. Baby hoatzins have a claw on the leading edge of each wing and another at the end of each wing tip. Using these four claws, together with the beak (喙), they can climb about in the bushes, looking very much like primitive birds must have done. When the young hoatzins have learned to fly, they lose their claws. During the drier months between December and March hoatzins fly about the forest in groups of 20 to 30 birds, but in April, when the rainy season begins, they collect together in smaller living units of two to seven birds for producing purposes.
63．What is the text mainly about?
A．Hoatzins in dry and rainy seasons.
B．The relatives and enemies of hoatzins.
C．Primitive birds and hoatzins of the Amazon.
D．The appearance and living habits of hoatzins.
第1题：
The best solution to the problem of the spread of bird flu is ______.
A. to kill all the birds in an area where bird flu has been discovered
B. to kill all the chickens
C. to kill all the birds
D. to kill all the chickens when bird flu has been discovered
39．答案为A 此题考查文章句意理解、细节定位。略读义章，发现在文章的结尾处有The best way to stop the spread of bird flu is to kill all the chickens in an area where bird flu has been discovered。注意其中的in an area where bird flu has been discovered对all the chickens的限定作用，故选A为答案。
第2题：
Eagle has the longest life-span of its species.Eagle can (1)up to 70 years, but to reach age, the eagle must make a hard Decision.
In its 40’s, its long and flexible talons can no longer grab grey which serve as food, its long and sharp beak becomes bent.Its old-aged and heavy wings, due to their thick feathers.become stuck to its chest and make it (2)to fly.Then eagle is left with only two options: die or go through a painful process of change which lasts 150 days for survival
The process requires that eagle fly to a mountain top and sit on its nest"here the eagle knocks its beak (3)a rock until it plucks it out.After plucking it out, eagle will wait for a new beak to grow back.When its new talons grow back, the eagle starts plucking its old-aged features and after five months eagle can take its flight to rebirth and lives for thirty (4) years.
Many times, in order to survive, we have to start a change process.We sometimes need to(5) old memories, habits and other past traditions.Only freed from past burdens, can we take advantage of the present(完型填空)
A.Against
B.Difficult
C.Get rid of
D.Live
E.Mor
第3题：
Why can't the man go traveling？
A.He can't afford it. B.He doesn't like to fly. C.He has to work.
第4题：
Young hoatzins are different from their parents in that ．
A．they look like young cuckoos
B．they have claws on the wings
C．they eat a lot like a cow
D．they live on river banks
第5题：
Assuming you build networks to exact specifications, what is the recommended maximum length a 10BaseT cable can be before it has to be segmented or repeated?
A．100 meters
B．100 feet
C．100 yards
D．200 meters
E．None of the above
第6题：
Passage Two
Only one animal can walk 200 miles without stopping once to rest. It would take a person two days and two nights to walk this far, and only one man has ever done it without stopping. What amazing animal has such endurance? The camel! The camel is well known for something else, too. It can cross an entire desert without a single drink of water. Its body is built in a special way to help it store water and food.
A person has just one stomach, but a camel has quite a few. Within each stomach are layers and layers of cells. These cells are like tiny water balloons, storing liquids until the camel needs them. When the camel drinks, the cells grow larger and larger. For a whole week, they can keep the animal's thirst away by sending water to all parts of its body.
And did you ever wonder why the camel has a hump? The hump is a storage place for fat. Because it has this storage area, the camel does not need to eat very often. When the animal needs energy, the layers of fat serve as fuel to keep it going on the long, hot days in the burning sun.
The camel has one other gift that makes it well suited to arid regions. This gift is its amazing nose. A camel can smell a water hole from miles away!
When a camel moves it sways from side to side like a ship on a wavy ocean. Because of this swaying motion, the camel has been called the "Ship of the Desert."
40. The camel's hump is a storage place for ______.
A. muscles
B. extra water
C. body sugars
D. fat
第7题：
A small child has to learn to keep its ( ) before he can walk far.
A. border
B. block
C. baggage
D. balance
第8题：
A.make
B.enable
C.force
D.realize
第9题：
The bird( )its wings and flew to the south.
A. beat
B．hit
C．strike
D．struck
第10题：
What can we infer about primitive birds from the text?
A．They had claws to help them climb.
B．They could fly long distances.
C．They had four wings like hoatzins.
D．They had a head with long feathers on the top.