Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questionsSince water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man’s inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions
Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man’s inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single drop.
Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist- skinned, water-loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found. The giants of the North American desert are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. Since desert country is open, it holds more swift-footed running and leaping creatures than the tangled forest. Its population is largely
nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated.
Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere else in the word. The secret of their adjustment lies in the combination of behavior and physiology. None could survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they went out in the midday sun; many would die in a matter of minutes. So most of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath the ground, emerging to hunt only by night. The surface of the sun-baked desert averages around 150 degrees, but 18 inches down the temperature is only 60 degrees.
The phrase “those forms” in the passage refers to all of the following EXCEPT
A. moist-skinned animals
B. many large animals
C. water-loving animals
D. the coyote and the bobcat
The passage below contains TEN mistakes. Underline them and write the correct forms in the numbered boxes.
Large animals inhabit \(\Rightarrow\) inhabiting the desert have evolved adaptations for reducing the effects of extreme hot \(\Rightarrow\) heat. One adaptation is to be light in color, and to reflect the Sun's rays. Desert mammals also depart from the normal mammalian practice of maintaining a constantly \(\Rightarrow\) constant body temperature. Instead of try \(\Rightarrow\) trying to keep down the body temperature inside the body, what \(\Rightarrow\) which would involve the expenditure of water and energy, desert mammals allow their temperatures rise \(\Rightarrow\) to rise to what would normally be fever height, and temperatures as high as 46 degree \(\Rightarrow\) degrees Celsius have been measured in Grant's gazelles. The overheated body cools down during the cold desert night, and indeed the temperature may fall unusual \(\Rightarrow\)unusually low by dawn, as low as 34 degrees Celsius in the camel. This is a \(\Rightarrow\) an advantage since the heat of the first few hours of daylight absorb \(\Rightarrow\) absorbed in warming up the body.