安徽工程大学英语4重修练习6与7.doc

练习6 Part I. Reading comprehension Section 1: In this section, there is a passage with 10 blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices in a word bank proceeding the passage. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. A. also B. measuring C. ones D. rapidly E. starve F. weighed G. determined H. slowly I. at J. maintain K. formed L. weighs M. with N. animal O. as fast as Every animal is a living radiator---heat 1 in its cells is given off through its skin. Warm-blooded animals 2 a steady temperature constantly by replacing lost surface heat; smaller animals, which have more skin for every ounce of body weight, must produce heat faster than bigger 3 . Because smaller animals burn fuel faster, scientists say they live faster. The speed 4 which an animal lives is determined by 5 the rate at which it uses oxygen. A chicken, for example, uses one-half cubic centimeter of oxygen every hour for each gram it weighs. The tiny shrew uses four cubic centimeters of oxygen every hour for each gram it 6 . Because it uses oxygen eight times as fast, it is said that the mouselike shrew is living eight times 7 the chicken. The smallest of the warm-blooded creatures, the hummingbird, lives a hundred times as fast as an elephant. There is 8 a limit how small a warm-blooded animal can be. A mammal or bird that weighed only two and a half grams would 9 to death. It would burn up its food too 10 and would not be able to eat fast enough to supply more fuel. Section 2 Directions: There are two passages in this part. Each passage is followed by 5 questions, with four choices given for each question .Please decide on the best choice. Passage1 In the summer of 1978 an English farmer named Ian Stevens was driving his tractor through a field of wheat when he discovered something strange. Some of his wheat was lying flat on the ground. The fla