山东省高密市银鹰文昌中学2013届九年级英语上册 阅读理解专项训练27 外研版.docVIP

阅读理解专项训练（27） A Have you ever wondered why birds sing? Maybe you thought that they were just happy. After all, you probably sing or whistle(吹口哨) when you are happy. Some scientists believe that birds do sing some of the time just because they are happy. However they sing most of the time for a very different reason. Their singing is actually a warning to other birds to stay out of their territory. Do you know what a territory is? A territory is an area that an animal, usually the male, claims(声明) as its own. Only he and his family are welcome there. No other families of the same species(物种) are welcome. Your yard and house are your territory where only your family and friends are welcome. If a stranger should enter your territory and frighten you, you might shout. Probably this would be enough to frighten him away. If so, you have actually scared the stranger away without having to fight him. A bird does the same thing. But he expects an outsider(外人) almost any time, especially at nesting(筑巢) season. So he is screaming all the time, whether he can see an outsider or not. This screaming is what we call a birds song, and it is usually enough to keep an outsider away. Birds sing louder in the spring when they are trying to attract a mate(配偶) and warn others not to enter the territory of theirs. You can see that birds have a language of their own. Most of it has to do with attracting mates and setting up territories. 1 Some scientists believe that most of the time birds singing is actually _________ . A. an expression of happiness B. a way of warning C. an expression of anger D. a way of greeting 2. What does the underlined(划线的) word territory mean? A. A place where families of other species are living. B. A place where a bird may shout at the top of its voice. C. An area where birds fight against each other. D. An area which a bird considers to be its own. B Play is the basic(基本的) business of childhood, and in