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[不定项选择题]In ancient Egypt (古埃及), people believed that the cat was a god. When a 51 died its owners showed their sadness by the strange habit of shaving their eyebrows off! In the 19th century, the famous English writer Charles Dickens had a cat who was very 52 of him. The cat didn′t like to 53 Dickens working too hard. At night, when the cat wanted to say" 54 writing!" to his master, he often 55 Dickens′ candle with his paw (脚爪)!
When animals become pets, the result, after a number of generations, is a smaller animal with a smaller brain. Rabbits (兔子), 56 , which live as pets in a garden, are less intelligent than their 57 cousins. Of course, man doesn′t always keep 58 for pleasure. Many animals have to work for their masters.
There was 59 a farm in Namibia, Africa, which had 80 goats. A mother monkey took the goats to the hills every day and brought them back at night. She 60 knew exactly which goats were hers--which is more than many humans could do.
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A.never
B.sometimes
C.seldom
D.always
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Egypt Felled by Famine
Even ancient Egypt's mighty pyramid builders were powerless in the face of the famine that helped bring down their civilization around 2180 B
C.Now evidence gleaned（搜集）from mud deposited by the River Nile suggests that a shift in climate thousands of kilometers to the south was ultimately to blame-and the same or worse could happen today.
The ancient Egyptians depended on the Nile's annual floods to irrigate their crops.But any change in climate that pushed the African monsoons（季风）southwards out of Ethiopia would have diminished these floods.
Dwindling（使减少）rains in the Ethiopian highlands would have meant fewer plants to establish the soil.When rain did fall it would have washed large amounts of soil into the Blue Nile and into Egypt,along with sediment（沉积物）from the White Nile.
The Blue Nile mud has a different isotope（同位素）signature from that of the White Nile.So by analyzing isotope differences in mud deposited in the Nile Delta,Michael Krom of Leeds University worked out what proportion of sediment came from each branch of the river.
Krom reasons that during periods of drought,the amount of the Blue Nile mud in the river would be relatively high.He found that one of these periods,from 4,500 to 4,200 years ago,immediately predated the fall of the Egypt's old Kingdom.
The weakened waters would have been catastrophic for the Egyptians."Changes that affect food supply don't have to be very large to have a ripple effect in societies,"says Bill Ryan of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory（天文台）in New York.
"Similar events today coald be even more devastating,"says team member Daniel Stanley,a geoarchaeologist from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,
D.0."Anything humans do to shift the climate belts woulld have an even worse effect along the Nile system because the populations have increased dramatically."
The word"devastating"in the last paragraph could be best replaced by______.
A.frustrating
B.damaging
C.defeating
D.worrying
[单选题]These ancient buildings are gorgeous.
A.ridiculous
B.lovely
C.magnificent
D.peculiar
[单选题]Since ancient times people have found various ways to preserve meat.
A.eat
B.cook
C.freeze
D.keep
