《2025年启东中学作业本九年级英语上册译林版宿迁专版》

五、阅读理解。
There are thousands of kinds of animals in the Amazon rainforest, and they all have different colours. Most rainforest animals use their colours for survival.
Some animals use colours to protect themselves from their predators (猎食者). An example is the green iguana (绿鬣蜥). Young iguanas are bright green and hide among the bright green leaves of the trees where they live. As they grow older, their colour becomes duller. Old iguanas live higher in the trees, where the colours all around are less bright.
Other animals are predators and use colours to hide from their prey. The boa constrictor (蟒蛇) is a good example. Some boas are grey or brown, and their colours help them hide on branches. The emerald boa is green and white, so it can easily hide in the leaves. A boa hides in a tree and waits for a bird to fly by. When one does, the boa grabs the bird from the air and then squeezes it to death before eating it.
Colourful frogs can be orange, red, or green. Their bright colours let everybody know where they are. The bright colour warns other animals that the frog is poisonous, so they stay away. These tiny frogs are poisonous! One frog has enough poison to kill 100 people.
The colours of the rainforest are beautiful to us, but to the animals they are very important. They help the animals survive.
( )1. In which part of a magazine may we read this?
A. History.
B. Culture.
C. Arts.
D. Nature.
( )2. What colour is the old green iguana?
A. Bright green.
B. Dull green.
C. Grey or brown.
D. Green and white.
( )3. Which animal in the passage is an example of the “prey”?
A. The boa.
B. The emerald boa.
C. The bird.
D. The colourful frog.
( )4. 创新考法—篇章结构题 How is the passage organized? (P= Paragraph)

答案： 1. D 【点拨】通读全文可知,我们可以在杂志的自然版块阅读此篇文章。故选 D。2. B 【点拨】根据文中第二段可知,年长的绿鬣蜥是暗绿色的。故选 B。3. C 【点拨】根据文中第三段可知,那只鸟是蟒蛇的猎物。故选 C。4. A 【点拨】通读全文可知,是总—分—总的结构。故选 A。