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解析使用说明：为了便于阅读，本解析采用不用的颜色，加下划线和斜体，加粗等形式对文章进行标记。 红色部分:（第1，2，…,题）表示各个题目的答案所在地。 加下划线和斜体：表示答案。由于有时答案密集，分别用加下划线和斜体将前后不同题目的答案区分开来。 加粗：加粗的部分表示该单词或词组在后面或者段落下面做了注释。 READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Lets GO Bats A Bats have a problem: how to find their way around in the dark. They hunt at night, and cannot use light to help them find prey and avoid obstacles. You might say that this is a problem of their own making(构造), one that they could avoid simply by changing their habits and hunting by day. But the daytime economy is already heavily exploited （利用或开发）by other creatures such as birds. Given that there is a living to be made at night, and given that alternative daytime trades are thoroughly occupied, natural selection has favored bats that make a go of the night-hunting trade.（第3题） It is probable that the nocturnal （夜的, 夜曲的）trades go way back in the ancestry （祖先）of all mammals. In the time when the dinosaurs dominated 主宰 the daytime economy, our mammalian哺乳动物的ancestors probably only managed to survive at all because they found ways of scraping a living 谋生 at night. （第2题）Only after the mysterious mass extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago were our ancestors able to emerge into the daylight in any substantial numbers. 【重要短语】Given 介词 taking (sth) into account 考虑到（某事物）: Make a go of: 成功地达到某种目标 Shes determined to make a go of her new career. 她决心在新事业上有所成就. B Bats have an engineering problem: how to find their way and find their prey in the absence of light. Bats are not the only creatures to face this difficulty today. Obviously the night-flying insects that they prey on must find their way about somehow. Deep-sea fish and whales have little or no light by day or by night. Fish and dolphins that live in extremely muddy water cannot see because, although there is light, it is obstructed阻碍, 阻挡 and scattered使消散 by the dirt in the water. Plenty of other modern animals make their li