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     Do you know why different animals or pests(昆虫) have their special colours? Colours in them

seem to be used mainly to protect themselves.

     Some birds like eating locusts(蝗虫), but birds cannot easily catch them. Why? It is because

locusts change their colours together with the change of the colours of crops(庄稼). When crops

are green, locusts look green. But as the harvest(收获) time comes, locusts change to the same

brown colour as crops have. Some other pests with different colours from plants are easily found

and eaten by others. So they have to hide themselves for lives and appear only at night.

     If you study the animal life, you'll find the main use of colouring is to protect themselves. Bears,

lions and other animals move quietly through forests. They cannot be easily seen by hunters. This is

because they have the colours much like the trees.

     Have you ever found an even more strange act? A kind of fish in the sea can send out a kind of

very black liquid(液体) when it faces danger. While the liquid spreads over(散开), its enemies(敌人)

cannot find it. And it immediately swims away. So it has lived up to now though it is not strong at all.

1. From the passage we learn that locusts __________.

A. are small animals

B. are easily found by birds

C. are dangerous to their enemies

D. change their colours to protect themselves

2. How can pests with different colours from plants keep out of danger?

A. They run away quickly.

B. They have the colours much like their enemies.

C. They hide themselves by day and appear at night.

D. They have to move quietly.

3. Bears and lions can keep safe because __________.

A. they have the colours much like the trees

B. they move quietly

C. they like brown and grey colours

D. they live in forests

4. Why can the kind of fish live up to now?

A. Because it is very big and strong.

B. Because the liquid it sends out can help it escape from its enemies.

C. Because the liquid it sends out can kill its enemies.

D. Because it swims faster than any other fish.

5. Which is the best title for this passage?

A. The Change of Colours for Animals and Pests.

B. Colours of Different Animals and pests.

C. The Main Use of Colours for Animals and Pests.

D. Some Animals and Pests.

[A] A machine has been developed that pulps paper and then processes it into packaging, e.g. egg-boxes and cartons. This could be easily adapted for local authorities use. It would mean that people would have to separate their refuse into paper and non-paper, with a different dustbin for each. Paper is, in fact, probably the material that can be most easily recycled; and now, with massive increases in paper prices, the time has come at which collection by local authorities could be profitable.

[B] Recycling of this kind is already happening with milk bottles, which are returned to the dairies, washed out, and refilled. But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic. More and more dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles, and it has been estimated that if all the milk bottles necessary were made of plastic, then British dairies would be producing the equivalent of enough plastic tubing to encircle the earth every five or six days!

[C] The package itself is of no interest to the shopper, who usually throws it away immediately. Useless wrapping accounts for much of the refuse put out by the average London household each week. So why is it done Some of it, like the cellophane on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. This is absurd. Packaging is using up scarce energy and resources and messing up the environment.

[D] The trouble with plastic is that it does not rot. Some environmentalists argue that the only solution to the problem of ever growing mounds of plastic containers is to do away with plastic altogether in the shops, a suggestion unacceptable to many manufacturers who say there is no alternative to their handy plastic packs.

[E] Little research, however, is being carried out on the costs of alternative types of packaging. Just how possible is it, for instance, for local authorities to salvage paper, pulp it and recycle it as egg-boxes Would it be cheaper to plant another forest Paper is the material most used for packaging--20 million paper bags are apparently used in Great Britain each day--but very little is salvaged.

[F] It is evident that more research is needed into the recovery and re use of various materials and into the cost of collecting and recycling containers as opposed to producing new ones. Unnecessary packaging, intended to be used just once, and making things look better so that more people will buy them, is clearly becoming increasingly absurd. But it is not so much a question of doing away with packaging as using it sensibly. What is needed now is a more sophisticated approach to using scarce resources for what is, after all, a relatively unimportant function.

[G] To get a chocolate out of a box requires a considerable amount of unpacking: the box has to be taken out of the paper bag in which it arrived; the cellophane wrapper has to be torn off, the lid opened and the paper removed; the chocolate itself then has to be unwrapped from its own piece of paper. But this insane amount of wrapping is not confined to luxuries. It is now becoming increasingly difficult to buy anything that is not done up in cellophane, polythene or paper.

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