Read the passage carefully and fill each blank with ONE suitable word. (10.0 points)An unusual speciesChristmas Island,
Read the passage carefully and fill each blank with ONE suitable word. (10.0 points)
An unusual species
Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, is home to a very unusual species - the red crab. Endemic to the island, it is estimated that between 40 and 50 million of these bright red crabs live on Christmas Island. These large crabs, whose shells or carapaces can reach up to 116 mm, are classed as 'arthropods' and they live in the island's shady, moist rainforest. (83) _____ they are not nocturnal creatures, they prefer to avoid direct sunlight in order to preserve their body moisture. During the dry season, they stay hidden in the humid interior of their (84) _____ burrows.
Although their diet consists mainly of leaves, fruit, flowers and seedlings, they are in fact omnivorous scavengers and will also eat other dead crabs and birds. They have no natural predators on their island home which explains their large numbers. At the beginning of the annual wet season, the crabs (85) _____ from their forest habitat to the coast to breed. After mating, the males return to the forest, but the females remain on the beach for another two weeks after which they lay their eggs- up to 100,000 of them! - in the ocean at high tide. The eggs released by the females hatch as soon as they come into (86) _____ with the survive return to the shore about a month later. sea water. Vast numbers of these tiny larvae are washed out to sea, where millions are eaten by fish and whale sharks, but those (87) _____.
Trả lời cho các câu 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 dưới đây:
(83) _____ they are not nocturnal creatures, they prefer to avoid direct sunlight in order to preserve their body moisture
Đáp án đúng là: Although
- Kiến thức: Điền từ
Đáp án cần điền là: Although
During the dry season, they stay hidden in the humid interior of their (84) _____ burrows
Đáp án đúng là: own
- Kiến thức: Điền từ
Đáp án cần điền là: own
At the beginning of the annual wet season, the crabs (85) _____ from their forest habitat to the coast to breed
Đáp án đúng là: migrate
- Kiến thức: Điền từ
Đáp án cần điền là: migrate
The eggs released by the females hatch as soon as they come into (86) _____ with the survive return to the shore about a month later. sea water.
Đáp án đúng là: contact
- Kiến thức: Điền từ
Đáp án cần điền là: contact
Vast numbers of these tiny larvae are washed out to sea, where millions are eaten by fish and whale sharks, but those (87) _____.
Đáp án đúng là: that
- Kiến thức: Điền từ
Đáp án cần điền là: that
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