《2025年中考复习指南江苏人民出版社英语》

一、词汇运用
根据短文意思和首字母填空，写出一个完整正确的单词。
Zebras are famous for their black and white stripes. For years, how stripes might help zebras is still a problem. One of the most accepted (1) a________ was to help zebras find their partners from a long distance. Recently, scientists have found that stripes may also help zebras (2) a________ insects. Horses are often attacked by large insects called horseflies. Horseflies can not only make the animals hardly quiet, they can also (3) c________ diseases.
A group of scientists in the UK have used a creative experiment (实验) to help (4) e________ how stripes help zebras. In the experiment, they filmed three zebras and seven single - coloured horses. Then they (5) u________ the videos to get the paths taken by the horseflies. They noticed that the flies landed on the horses about four times (6) m________ often than they landed on the zebras. When the horseflies tried to land on the zebras, they often got the landing time (7) w________: they flew past or into the zebra instead of landing gently. The scientists think that the zebra stripes play tricks on the (8) e________ of the flies. From far away, the zebras may look grey, so the flies come fast, feeling (9) s________ of where they are going. But once they get close and discover things are black and (10) w________, they may wonder what they are. But by then it's too late for them to slow down and land safely.

答案： 1. answers 2. avoid 3. carry/cause 4. explain/explore 5. used 6. more 7. wrong 8. eyes 9. sure 10. white