Section Ⅲ Discovering Uful Structures & Listening and Talking
[基础训练]
Ⅰ 单词拼写
1．The lion stole in on the family of ________ (鹿)．
答案：deer
2．A ________ (袋鼠) and her baby eat leaves of the tree.
答案：kangaroo
3．Do you think butterfly is a type of ________ (昆虫)?
答案：inct
4．The ball rolled into the n________. A shout of joy ro from the crowd.
答案：net
5．(2019·北京高考)Paul Wilson will make sure lowincome students in his n________ arrive at their college class on time.
答案：neighbourhood
Ⅱ 单句语法填空
1．Our pilot ________ (reduce) height so that we could land safely.
答案：reduced
2．The alarming report ________ (write). It will be finished this afternoon.
答案：is being written
3．Still, in the wild forests, animals ________ (hunt) for profit.
答案：are being hunted
4．Things ________ (change) in recent days. More and more villagers agree to move.
答案：have changed
5．Each time our team compete, binoculars ________ (u) for watching them.
答案：are ud
Ⅲ 单句写作
1．他的成功主要归功于勤奋努力。
His success was largely __________ hard work.
答案：due to
2．为了想法子增加家庭收入，她开始制作洋娃娃。
While ______________ a way to increa the family income, she began making dolls.
答案：arching for
3．为了赢得比赛他每天都训练。
He practices every day ________________ he may win the match.
答案：in order that
4．更糟糕的是，那些野鸭子被猎杀，成为饭店里的佳肴。
______________， the wild ducks are killed for food in restaurants.
答案：Even wor
5．我们应该做些力所能及的事情来关照那些流浪猫。
We are suppod to do something we can __________________ tho homeless cats.
答案：do to care for
[思维训练]
Ⅰ 完形填空
(2019·南通市高一英语能力提升练) In the wild, it often comes down to predator (捕食者) and prey (猎物), the hunter and the hunted. Most animals want to stay __1__. They have developed ways of adapting to __2__habitats, and hiding or escaping from tho who would like to __3__ them. So how do they do that?
One very helpful adaptation is called camouflage (伪装). You may have been __4__by an animal that was using camouflage in the past. It looked so similar to its surroundings that you nearly __5__ eing it at all. Its coloring, markings, or other physical features remble its __6__so much that you can look directly at it without __7__ it at first. This is often good enough to fool a predator that is scanning an area to look for __8__. This helps prey to __9__ from its predator. But did you know that it often works the other way around, too? Predators can u camouflage to __10__ their prey. If a predator wants to eat a certain animal, and that animal cannot e it lying in __11__， it can catch its prey __12__， swallowing it before it even knows what is happening.
Another popular adaptation is mimicry (拟态). Mimicry is when an animal has markings or other __13__ characteristics that allow it to look like some other kind of animal or plant.If it can make its predators __14__ that it is something that preys on them, or would at least be difficult or __15__ to catch, its predator will often go off in arch of a(n) __16__ target.
Sometimes animals are able to __17__ when their habitat changes becau they adapt to the new conditions. For example, birds that were accustomed to nesting in tall __18__ have survived industrialization of their habitat by learning to nest in the narrow openings of tall buildings. Raccoons (浣熊) easily adapt to residential areas that have __19__ their woodland homes. They often help themlves to any food they can get, such as food in trash cans, or __20__ inside people's homes!
篇章导读：本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了动物们在大自然中用不同方式适应环境、努力生存的现象。
1．A.warm B．alive
C．active D．young
答案：B 由上文的“the hunter and the hunted”及下文的“hiding or escaping from”可推断，大多数动物想要“活着(alive)”。
2．A.comfortable B．native
C．traditional D．vere
答案：D 由上文的“have developed ways of adapting”可推断，动物们用各种方法适应“严峻的(vere)”自然环境。
3．A.lo B．know
C．kill D．help
答案：C 动物们总是逃避想要“杀死(kill)”它们的天敌。
4．A.annoyed B．inspired
C．surprid D．disturbed
答案：C 由下文的“ ... that was using camouflage in the past. It looked so similar to its surroundings ...”可推断，或许有一只伪装在与其看起来很像的环境中的动物曾“使你感到惊讶(surprid)”。
5．A.misd B．stopped
C．started D．forgot
答案：A 由上文的“It looked so similar to its surroundings ...”可知，伪装的动物与其所处的环境很相似，以至于你差点“没有(misd)”看到它。
6．A.trash B．parent
C．enemy D．habitat
答案：D 由第5空前的surroundings可知此处也指类似含义，结合选项可知“habitat (栖息地)”也表动物所处的环境。
7．A.feeling B．hearing
C．eing D．smelling
答案：C 伪装的动物的外表和其所处的周边环境如此相似以至于你可能盯着它(所处的位置)却没能一开始就“看到(eing)”它。
8．A.brothers B．food
C．friends D．water
答案：B 伪装可以欺骗正在寻找“食物(food)”的捕食者。
9．A.learn B．hide
C．steal D．benefit
答案：B 伪装可以帮助猎物“躲避(hide)”它的捕食者。
10．A.amu B．excite
C．confu D．trap
答案：D 由上文的“... it often works the other way around ...”可知，不光猎物会通过伪装躲避捕食者，捕食者也会通过伪装给猎物“设陷阱捕捉(trap)”。
