| Why has the kiwi survived while its
relatives the moas have become extinct One reason, I think, is that it has
adopted nocturnal(夜间活动的) habits. Kiwis are not normally about in the daytime.
During the daylight hours they lie up in hiding, where enemies have no hope of
finding them. Their coloration protects them; the strange drab(黄褐色的) feathering,
so unlike that of most birds, gives them a cloak(伪装)of invisibility while they
sleep. And when night falls, out they come to scratch in the ground and find
worms and feed to their hearts’ content. They couldn’t do that so effectively if they didn’t have another peculiarity that I have not mentioned yet. The nostrils(鼻孔) of most birds open high up near the base of the beak(猛禽的嘴), but the kiwi wears his nostrils right near the tip of the long bill. That’s good for a bird that feeds in th A. it stays out of sight and sleeps during the day B. it usually goes from place to place during the day C. it changes the colour of its feather in the daytime D. it is caught and eaten by its enemy in the daytime [单项选择]A. Because he is busy. B. Because he has to get a report.
C. Because his boss needs him. D. Because he hasn’t run out of bread. [单项选择] New dictionaries are needed because English has changed more in the past two generations than at any other time in its history. It has had to adapt to extraordinary cultural and technological changes, two world wars, unparalleled changes in transportation and communication, and unprecedented (史无前例的) movements of populations.
More subtly, but pervasively, it has changed under the influence of mass education and the growth of democracy. As written English is used by increasing millions and for more reasons than ever before, the language has become more utilitarian (功利的, 实利的) and more informal. Every publication in America today includes pages that would appear, to the purist of forty years ago, unbuttoned gibberish (莫名其妙的). Not that they are; they simply show that you can’’t hold the language of one generation up as a model for the next.
It’’s not that you mustn’’t. You can’’t. For example, in the issue in which Life stated editorially that it would follow the Second Intern
A. Because the publishing house wants to earn more money. B. Because there are many changes in English in order to adapt to great changes in the past forty years. C. Because the old version of dictionaries were destroyed in two world wars. D. Because there are lots of cultural movements in the world. [填空题]People enjoy shopping there because it has modern shops, together with the atmosphere of a (tradition)（）street market.
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