Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet.
Large animals that inhabit the desert have evolved a number of adaptations for reducing the effects of extreme heat. (31) adaptation is to be light in color, and to (32) rather than absorb the sun’s rays. Desert mammals also depart from the normal mammalian practice of maintaining a (33) body temperature. (34) trying to keep down the body temperature deep inside the body, (35) would involve the expenditure of water and energy, desert mammals allow their temperatures to rise to what would normally be fever (36) , and temperatures as high as 46 degrees Celsius have been measured in gazelles (瞪羚羊).
Another strategy (37) large desert animals is to tolerate the loss of body water to a point (38) would be fatal for non-adapted animals. Th
A. compensate
B. make up
C. replenish
D. refill
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While people around the world are talking about the prevention and treatment of AIDS, let’s not (26) that we have had an old enemy, cancer, which (27) sounds horrible, but also, (28) to many ordinary people, appears invincible (不可战胜的).
There (29) now both good news and bad news. The good news is that scientists (30) believe, based on the recent advances of modem medicine, (31) it is possible to tame cancer in the next decade, transforming it from a scary disease to something (32) a chronic (慢性的) disease, like diabetes. (33) no one expects a cure for cancer in the near future, but many think that the hi-tech may finally (34) more effective treatment, making the issue much (35)
The (36) news is, (37) , about the current (38) Cancer rates are expected to increase at an alarming rate globally, (39) the most recent data from the World Health O
A. due to
B. contribute to
C. owing to
D. according to
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