阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
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Researchers who helped discover a new species of Mexican butterfly are offering to sell the naming rights to raise money to fund more research. Co-discoverer Andrew Warren is hoping to raise at least $50,000 by auctioning(拍卖) off the rights to name the 4-inch “owl eye” butterfly, which lives in Sonora, a Mexican state bordering Arizona.
“That would support at least two years of research for our team down in Mexico,” Warren said. “Money goes a long way down here in Mexico.”
According to the scientific tradition, discoverers of a new species have the say in naming it. In recent years, some discoverers have auctioned off their naming rights to raise money.
Warren said the amount being sought for the butterfly is not out of the question, noting that naming rights for a new monkey species brought in $650,000 two years ago. A group of 10 new fish species that went on the naming auction block at the same time earlier this year brought in a total of $2 million.
The butterfly discovered by Warren and researcher George Austin ranges as far north as Mexico.
The butterfly was actually in a collection, misidentified as an example of another new species, at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of National History in Gainesville, said Warren. They soon began the hard process of determining that it was indeed a “new” model of butterfly.
After checking photos and comparing it with other known species, they determined it was a separate species.
1.Where did the researchers discover the new species of butterflies?
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A．In Sonora. |
B．In Mexico state. |
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C．In a place in US. |
D．Near the US-Mexico border. |
2. Why will the researchers sell the naming rights of the butterfly?
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A．To raise money for wildlife protection. |
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B．To raise money for more research. |
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C．To cause people’s attention to the new discovery. |
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D．To cover the cost of the research. |
3.When the butterfly was first discovered, people thought ______.
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A．it was a new species at once |
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B．it wasn’t a species of American butterfly |
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C．it belonged to the monarch branches |
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D．it belonged to a new species |
4. We can infer from the passage that ______.
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A．the new species of butterfly live both in the US and Mexico |
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B．it took the researchers a lot of efforts to determine the new species of butterfly |
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C．the researchers are not sure whether they can get the money they want from the auction |
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D．it is the first time that the new species of butterfly has been found |
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
James was a curious young man. Everywhere he went, he liked to observe things and to __21__ people—what they did, what they said and what they wore. Subconsciously, he was making quick __22__ all the time. He couldn’t really __23__ it; it just happened.
For example, he once saw a man whose body was __24__ with tattoos(文身). That man was strong and walked proudly. James imagined his __25__ people up, sometimes with sticks and sometimes with his hands, speaking __26__ words each time he opened his mouth. A troublemaker, perhaps, James __27__ to himself.
Sometimes James felt __28__ for judging others this way, but that feeling was __29__ and never really lasted.
Then, one day, he saw a woman seated alone in a café. The woman was __30__, quite fat, and although she was not __31__, James could tell she was a short lady. __32__, James glanced across at her, looking at her from top to bottom. As his eyes reached her __33__, he got a shock.
There she was, on her left foot, wearing a platform shoe that was at least 3 inches high. __34__ could such a little middle-aged lady who was average-looking at best be so vain as to wear high platforms? Look beautiful? In that short moment of time, __35__ thoughts flowed through James’ mind.
A second later, James’ eyes naturally moved across to the lady’s right foot. And there, he got an even bigger __36__. ----It was a flat shoe. She was not vain; she had a birth defect(缺陷) ----uneven length of her legs. If anything, she deserved __37__ and understanding, certainly not blame, not even mental ones.
James was __38__ with guilt. It was a(n) __39__ lesson he learned about not __40__ conclusions, about not judging people, especially so quickly.
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You have to wear special clothing, a helmet and a life jacket ____ your raft gets turned upside down or sinks.
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A．so that |
B．in order that |
C．now that |
D．in case |
As I looked at the memorial, I thought about ____ terrible disaster it was for the people in Nanjing then and ____ they were to fight the Japanese invaders.
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A．how, how |
B．what a, how |
C．what, how |
D．how, what |
---So I’m going to make the desk myself.
---Why ____ instead, if I may ask?
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A．not buy it |
B．don’t buy one |
C．not buy one |
D．don’t buy it |
Painted red ____ white walls, the houses look wonderful.
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B．against |
C．in |
D．on |
