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[考研类试卷]考研英语（二）模拟试卷35 一、Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D. (10 points) 0 A major reason for conflict in the animal world is territory. The male animal 【C1】 ______an area. The size of the area is sufficient to provide food for him, his 【C2】 ______and their offspring. Migrating birds, for example, 【C3】______up the best territory in the order of first come, first 【C4】______. The late arrivals may acquire 【C5】______territories, but less food is available, or they are too close to the 【C6】 ______of the enemies of the species. 【C7】______there is really insufficient food or the danger is very great, the animal will not 【C8】______. In this way, the members of the species which are less fit will not have offspring. When there is conflict 【C9】______territory, animals will commonly use force, or a 【C10】______of force, to decide which will stay and which will go. It is interesting to note, however, that animals seem to use 【C11】______the minimum amount of force 【C12】______to drive away the intruder. There is usually no killing. In the 【C13】 ______of those animals which are capable of doing each other great harm, 【C14】 ______is a system for the losing animal to show the winning animals that he 【C15】 ______to submit. When he shows this, the 【C16】______normally stops fighting. Animals(especially birds), which can easily escape from conflict, seem to have 【C17】 ______obstacle against killing, and equally no mechanism 【C18】______submission. The losing bird simply flies away. However, if two doves are 【C19】______in a cage, and they start fighting, they will continue to fight until one kills the other. We all think of the dove as a symbol of peace and, in its natural habitat, it is peaceful. But the peace mechanism does not 【C20】______in a cage. 1