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                                                        The Amazing Octopus
Among the many amazing animals in the world, few are as strange and unusual as the octopus. There are around 300 different kinds of octopuses, and they come in all sizes! The smallest is only around 2.5 centimetres long, but some octopuses can grow up to more than five metres long. There was even an octopus over nine metres long!
The octopus’s body is very interesting. All octopuses have eight arms. Their brain is not just in their head, but also in their arms! This helps them to think about and do more than one thing at once. Octopuses can also fit into small places because they do not have any bones! And did you know that octopuses have three hearts? These hearts work with different parts of the body.
Octopuses can also do many amazing things. Most of them can change their colour and shape to look like plants or other sea animals, and they can also make ink. They keep it inside a very small bag in their body. When they produce ink, the ink makes it hard for other animals to see them. This helps the octopuses to get away fast. What’s more, when an octopus loses an arm, it can grow it back!
Studying amazing animals like the octopus is important because we can learn a lot from them. But they also show us how wonderful nature is and why it is important to protect it!

一 根据语篇内容，在方框内的缩写文章中，填入与语篇意思最符合的单词。
Few animals are as strange as the octopus. They come in all sizes. Octopuses have 1.________ arms and three hearts. They do not have any 2.________. Most of them can 3.________ their colour and shape, and they can also make ink so that other animals can’t 4.________ them easily.
Studying amazing animals like the octopus is important. They can show us how 5.________ nature is and why it is important to protect it.
二 根据语篇内容，选出一个最佳选项。
1. Which of the following about octopuses is TRUE? ( )
A. The smallest is only around 2.5 metres long.
B. Some octopuses can grow up to over five metres long.
C. There are about 100 kinds of octopuses.
2. What can octopuses do to protect themselves? ( )
A. Grow very long.
B. Fit into small places.
C. Make ink.
3. If an octopus loses an arm, it can ________. ( )
A. change its colour
B. die easily
C. grow it back
4. Why is studying amazing animals like the octopus important? ( )
A. Because they are strange and amazing.
B. Because we can learn a lot from them.
C. Because they have many arms.
5. In which part of a newspaper can we read this passage? ( )
A. Sports.
B. Music.
C. Animals.

答案： 一
1. eight
2. bones
3. change
4. see
5. wonderful
二
1. B
2. C
3. C
4. B
5. C