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2019-2020 学年复旦附中高三上一次月考 . Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Some people sit outside for hours without getting bitten by mosquitoes, but it always seems like you (21) ________ (bite) alive within minutes of stepping outdoors. (22) ________ this is you, you ’ re not alone. According to Smithsonian Magazine, around 20 percent of people in the world are especially tasty to mosquitoes. What about these people making mosquitoes A popular myth claims that mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, but the fact is that they simply can what your blood type is from a faraway place. Jonathon Day, a professor of medical entomology （昆虫学） at the University of Florida in the US, told NBC it ’ s not complicated. “ The two most important reasons a mos ________ (attract) to you have to do with sight and smell. ” Mosquitoes are especially active in the late afternoon. While flying along, they use their sense of smell to find possible targets. They find victims by smelling the carbon dioxide (CO2) breathed out my humans and animals. That ’ s (24) ________ you commonly find them in crowded streets and parks. Joop van Loon, an entomologist at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, told Live Science, “ Mosquitoes start orienting (25) ________ to carbon dioxide and keep flying upwind (26) ________ they sense higher concentrations. ” As a result, people who simply exhale more of the gas over time - generally, larger people - (27) ________ (show) to attract more mosquitoes than others. “ This is why kids don ’ t get bitten as much ... as adults, Ted Rosen told Science Alert. This love for CO2 can also put pregnant women at (28) ________ (increase) risk for mosquito bites, as they tend to exhale 21 percent more CO2 tha