Tham khảo tài liệu 'kỳ thi thử đại học lần 2 năm học 2010-2011 môn: tiếng anh - mã đề: 005', tài liệu phổ thông, ôn thi đh-cđ phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | SỞ GD ĐT NINH BÌNH TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN LƯƠNG VĂN TUỴ Mã đề 005 KỲ THI THỬ ĐẠI HỌC LẦN 2 Năm học 2010-2011 Môn TIẾNG ANH khối D Thời gian làm bài 90 phút Họ và tên . ĐỀ GỒM 80 CÂU TỪ CÂU 1 ĐẾN CÂU 80 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 from number 11 to 20 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. Question 1 The title for this passage could be. A. Desert Plants B. Life Underground C. Animal Life in a Desert Environment D. Man s Life in a Desert Environment Question 2 The
