《2025年飞越阅读英语真题年年新五年级英语上册通用版》

Week 10Friday
Friday How do animals have their colours?
(2024 广东深圳改编)

Yellow, green, rainbow... animals have a lot of beautiful and different colours. These colours are important to them. Some animals use the colours to scare away or hide from unfriendly animals. Others use the colours to find their partners. But how do animals have their colours?
Food gives them colours
Some animals get colours from their food. For example, flamingos eat a lot of shrimp or sea plants. These things have a red - orange colour. The colour of the food gives flamingos a pink colour. The more they eat, the pinker they get.
Body gives them colours
Animals' body parts, like feathers, hair and skin, have special structure. They reflect light to make animals colourful. This is called structural colour. For example, blue butterflies have fancy scales on their wings. This gives them a bright blue colour. Structural colours don't fade. People use the idea to make special clothes and paints.
记忆卡片
scare away 吓跑
unfriendly /ʌn'frendli/ adj. 不友好的
flamingo /flə'mɪŋgəʊ/ n. 火烈鸟
shrimp /ʃrɪmp/ n. 虾
feather /'feðə(r)/ n. 羽毛
reflect /rɪ'flekt/ v. 反射
structural colour 结构色
scale /skeɪl/ n. 鳞片
fade /feɪd/ v. 褪色
阅读体验
一、根据短文内容，判断下列句子正(T)误(F)。
( ) 1. The beautiful and different colours are important to animals.
( ) 2. All the animals use the colours to find their partners.
( ) 3. Flamingos are pink because of the food they eat.
( ) 4. Blue butterflies have fancy scales on their wings.
( ) 5. People get the idea from animals, and they make special clothes and brushes.
二、根据短文内容，回答问题。
1. What do flamingos eat?
________
2. How do animals have their colours?
________
知识库
在生活中，我们都必须遵守交通规则。红绿灯是我们最常见的交通信号灯。那红绿灯用英语怎么表达呢？大部分人会回答 red and green lights，小部分人会考虑把 yellow light 也加进去。但是，“红绿灯”的标准翻译为 traffic（交通的）lights。此外，“黄灯”的英文也可以用 amber light 来表达。amber 是“琥珀，琥珀色”的意思，信号灯中的黄灯亮起来有点像琥珀，由此得名。

答案： 一、1.T 2.F 3.T 4.T 5.F
二、1.They eat a lot of shrimp or sea plants.
2.They have their colours from the food they eat or their bodies.