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Certain animals and plants develop characteristics that help them cope with their environment better than other of their kind. This natural biological process is called adaptation. Among the superior characteristics developed through adaptation are those that my help in getting food or shelter, in providing protection, and in producing and protecting the young. That results in the evolution of more and more organisms that are better fitted to their environments. Each living thing is adapted to its way of life in a general way, but each is adapted especially to its own distinct class. A plant, for example, depends upon its roots to fix itself firmly and to absorb water and inorganic chemicals. It depends upon its green leaves for using the sun’s energy to make food from inorganic chemicals. These are general adaptation, common to most plants. In addition, there are special adaptations that only certain kinds of plants have. Many animals have adaptations that help them escape from their enemies. Some insects are hidden by their body color or shape, and many look like a leaf or a little branch. The coats of deer are colored to mix with the surroundings. Many animals have the ability to remain completely still when an enemy is near. Organisms have a great variety of ways of adapting. They may adapt in their structure, function, and genetics; in their development and production of the young; and in other respects. An organism may create its own environment, as do warm-blooded mammals, which have the ability to adjust body heat exactly to maintain their ideal temperature despite changing weather. Usually adaptations are an advantage, but sometimes an organism is so well adapted to a particular environment that, if conditions change, it finds it difficult or impossible to readapt to the new conditions.1. Some plants and animals develop superior characteristics so that they may（）.2. In the first paragraph, the word “environments” could best be replaced by（）.3. It can be inferred from this passage that the feathers of a bird are colored（）.4. Which of the following is not directly mentioned?5. The author cites the behavior of warm-blooded mammals in order to illustrate which of the following?

Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies. What they do is to look at familiar conditions form a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false. Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest proposal dramatized starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley and people were aware of famine before Swift. It was not the originality of the ideas that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satiric method that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous combination and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude. Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they lived in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is sanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Soldiers rarely hold the ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity. Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they do not hear them expressed.1. What does the passage mainly discuss?2. Which of the following can be found in satire literature?3. According to the passage, there is a need for satire because people need to be（）.4. As a result of reading satiric literature, reader will be most likely to（）.5. The various purposed of satire include all of the following EXCEPT（）.

Clark felt that his （）on one of the most dramatic medical experiments of all time was worth the suffering he underwent.

He （）his head, wondering how to solve the problem.

All the students have to to （）the rules and regulations of the school.

He suggested that we put the scheme into effect, for it is quite（）.

Having finished their morning work, the clerks stood up behind their desks, （）themselves.

The footballer scored with such （）that the goalkeeper didn’t stand the chance of saving the goal.

It is reported that thirty people were killed in a （）on the railway yesterday.

As an independent citizen, he sees no obligation to open himself to further（）.

An energy tax would curb ordinary air pollution, limit oil imports and cut the budget （）.

The little girl thought failing in examination as （）, so she was unwilling to tell her parents.

They are （）investors who always make thorough investigations both on local and international markets before making an investment.

Many countries have adopted systems of （）education in order to promote the average level of education.

Giving a gift can convey a wealth of meaning about your appreciation of their （）and the importance you place upon the relationship.

There were answers to the nature of the universe beyond mankind’s （）reach.

Very few people could understand the lecture the professor delivered because its subject was very（）.

The taxi-driver （）about our luggage and seemed to be in a thoroughly bad temper.

Since a circle has no beginning or end, the wedding ring is accepted as a symbol of （）love.

The official claimed that the government had only changed the law in order to （）America.

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