《2025年自我提升与评价九年级英语上册译林版》

六、短文填空
In nature,you may see many insects and animals of different colours. Have you ever wondered why? Locusts(蝗虫)are super delicious (1)food for birds,but it is not always an easy job for birds to catch them. It is (2)neither because locusts are good jumpers or runners nor because they are smarter than their enemies. The (3)reason is that the colours of locusts (4)change with the colours of crops. When crops are young,locusts look (5)green. But when autumn comes,locusts change to the yellow and brown colour as crops do.
Brown bears,tigers and other animals move quietly (6)through forests. They can't be seen easily by their enemies. This is because they have colours (7)similar to the trees. For the same reason,polar bears that live on a land of snow and ice are white. Butterflies and bees living among the flowers are (8)colourful like flowers. Soil insects are mostly dark-coloured and they live under the soil(土壤)in a dark and wet (9)environment. However,insects with colours different from plants can easily be found and eaten by others. So in order to (10)survive,they have to hide themselves in the daytime and appear only at night.

答案： 1.food 2.neither 3.reason 4.change 5.green 6.through 7.similar 8.colourful 9.environment 10.survive