a collectionof t o e f l reading comprehension（collectionof t o e f l阅读理解）（112页）.docVIP

Content PRACTICE TEST 01 3 PRACTICE TEST 02 11 PRACTICE TEST 03 18 PRACTICE TEST 04 26 PRACTICE TEST 05 34 PRACTICE TEST 06 42 PRACTICE TEST 07 49 PRACTICE TEST 08 56 PRACTICE TEST 09 63 PRACTICE TEST 10 70 PRACTICE TEST 11 77 PRACTICE TEST 12 85 PRACTICE TEST 13 93 PRACTICE TEST 14 100 ANSWER KEY 107 PRACTICE TEST 01 May 2004 Question 1-10 All mammals feed their young. Beluga whale mothers, for example, nurse their calves for some twenty months, until they are about to give birth again and their young are able to find their own food. The behavior of feeding of the young is built into the reproductive Line system. It is a nonelective part of parental care and the defining feature of a mammal, the (5) most important thing that mammals-- whether marsupials, platypuses, spiny anteaters, or placental mammals -- have in common. But not all animal parents, even those that tend their offspring to the point of hatching or birth, feed their young. Most egg-guarding fish do not, for the simple reason that their young are so much smaller than the parents and eat food that is also much smaller than (10) the food eaten by adults. In reptiles, the crocodile mother protects her young after they have hatched and takes them down to the water, where they will find food, but she does not actually feed them. Few insects feed their young after hatching, but some make other arrangement, provisioning their cells and nests with caterpillars and spiders that they have paralyzed with their venom and stored in a state of suspended animation so that their (15) larvae might have a supply of fresh food when they hatch. For animals other than mammals, then, feeding is not intrinsic to parental care. Animals add it to their reproductive strategies to give them an edge in their lifelong quest for descendants. The most vulnerable moment in any animals life is when it first finds itself completely on its own, when it must forage