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GRE考试真题卷（2） 本卷共分为2大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。 严格遵守考试纪律，维护考试秩序！ 一、单项选择题（共28题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.Naturalists and casual observers alike have been struck by the special relationship between squirrels and acorns (the seeds of oak trees). Ecologists, though, cannot observe These energetic mammals scurrying up and down oak trees and eating and burying acorns without wondering about their complex relationship with trees. Are squirrels dispersers (5) 　and planters of oak forests or pesky seed predators The answer is not simple. Squirrels may devour many acorns, but by storing and failing to recover up to 74 percent of them (as they do when seeds are abundant), these arboreal o\rodents can also aid regeneration and dispersal of the oaks. Their destructive powers are well documented. According to one report, squirrels (10)destroyed tens of thousands of fallen acorns from an oak stand on the University of Indiana campus. A professor there estimated that each of the large while oaks had. Produced between two and eight thousand acorns, but within weeks of seed maturity,Hardly an intact acorn could be found among the fallen leaves.Deer, turkey, wild pigs, and bears also feed heavily on acorns, but do not store them,(15) And are therefore of no benefit to the trees. Flying squirrels, chipmunks, and mice are Also unlikely to promote tree dispersal---whose behavior of caching (hiding) acorns below The leaf litter often promotes successful germination of acorns---and perhaps blue jays,Important long-distance dispersers, seem to help oaks spread and reproduce. Among squirrels, though, there is a particularly puzzling behavior pattern. Squirrels (20) pry off the caps of acorns, bite through the shells to get at the nutritious inner kernels, and then discard them half-eaten. The ground under towing oaks is often littered with thousands of half-eaten acorns, each one only bitten from the top. Why would any animal waste so much time and energy and risk exposure to such predator