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单元测评(三)　Unit 3　Under the sea (时间：90 分钟　满分：110 分) 第一部分　阅读理解(共两节；满分 30 分) 第一节　(共 10 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 20 分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D) 中，选出最佳 选项。 A If you travel to a new exhibit at the San Francisco Greenhouse of Flowers, you will have a chance to see some meat­eating plants. Take bladderworts, a kind of such plant, for example. They appear so small and grow in a quiet pool. But these are the fastest­known killers of the plant kingdom, able to catch a small insect in 1/50 of a second using a trap (陷阱) door! Once the trap door closes on the animal falling into it, the enzymes (酶) similar to those in the human stomach slowly digest the insect. When dinner is over, the plant opens the trap door and is ready for trap again. Meat­eating plants grow mostly in wet areas with soil that doesnt offer much food value. In such conditions, these amazing plants have developed insect traps to get their nutritional (营养) needs over thousands of years. North America has more such plants than any other continent. Generally speaking, the traps may have attractive appearance to fool the eye, like pitcher plants, which get their name because they look like beautiful pitchers( a container like a bottle) full of honey. The Asian pitcher plant, for example, has bright colors and an attractive half­closed cover. Curious insects are attracted to come close and take a drink, then fall down the slippery wall to their deaths. Some of these pitchers are large enough to hold two gallons(7.5 liters). Meat­eating plants only eat people in science movies, but sometimes a bird or other small animals will discover that a pitcher plant isnt a good place to get a drink. 语篇解读　本文是说明文。大自然千奇百怪，人们对食肉的动物并不 陌生，但你见过食肉的植物吗？本文将为你介绍一二。 1． From P