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【題目】Do you know what are the World’s tallest animals? How do they sleep and drink?

You may think it's difficult for them to sleep, but they have no such problems because giraffes don’t often stop for a snooze(打盹). As they are so tall—males can grow up to 18 feet, giraffes actually have the shortest sleep requirement of all mamma1s哺乳動物), with an average(平均) of half an hour a day. When they sleep, they seldom lie down and sleep for minutes at a time, since it's difficult for them to get up again and it’s dangerous in the wild. But the giraffe in the zoo sleeps around 4.6 hours per day, mostly at night. It usually sleeps lying down.

Drinking Water may cause problems for the animals because their long necks are too short to reach the ground. To drink they must spread their legs in an uncomfortable position, which makes them easily hunted by other animals like Africa's big cats. As a result. thev get most of their water from the plants that they eat. They only need to drink water every few days.

【1】How1ong do giraffes living in the wild sleep every day?

【2】How does the giraffe in the zoo usua11y sleep?

【3】What must giraffes do to drink water?

【4】What's the main idea of the passage?

【5】請將劃線句子翻譯成漢語,,

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】(They sleep with an average of) half an hour(a day)/ For half an hour

【2】It usually sleeps lying down/It usually lies down to sleep.

【3】They must spread their legs in an uncomfortable position.

【4】It's about how giraffes sleep and drink (water).

【5】因此，長頸鹿所需的水分大部分都是從它們吃的植物里獲得的。

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了世界上最高的動物：長頸鹿的生活習性：它們是世界上睡眠最短的哺乳動物，動物園里的長頸鹿比野生的長頸鹿的日平均睡眠要長一些。喝水成了長頸鹿的另一困難，因為他們的長頸夠不著地面。所以它們的主要水來自所吃的植物，它們隔幾天才需要喝水。

【1】(They sleep with an average of) half an hour(a day)/ For half an hour. 題意：生活在野外的長頸鹿每天睡多長時間？根據(jù)第二段的“with an average(平均) of half an hour a day.”（平均每天半小時）可知本題答案：(They sleep with an average of) half an hour(a day)/ For half an hour.

【2】It usually sleeps lying down/It usually lies down to sleep. 題意：動物園里的長頸鹿通常怎樣睡覺？由第二段最后一句：But the giraffe in the zoo sleeps around 4.6 hours per day, mostly at night. It usually sleeps lying down.（但是動物園里的長頸鹿每天大約睡4.6小時，主要是在夜晚。它通常是躺著睡）可知本題答案：It usually sleeps lying down/It usually lies down to sleep.

【3】They must spread their legs in an uncomfortable position. 題意：要喝水，長頸鹿必須做什么？由最后一段中的：To drink they must spread their legs in an uncomfortable position.可知本題回答：They must spread their legs in an uncomfortable position.

【4】It's about how giraffes sleep and drink (water). 題意：短文的中心思想是什么？短文主要介紹的是長頸鹿的生活習慣，從sleeping和drinking water兩個方面介紹的。所以，可以回答：It's about how giraffes sleep and drink (water).

【5】因此,長頸鹿所需的水分大部分都是從它們吃的植物里獲得的。As a result：結果，因此；get…from…：從……獲得……；most of …：……中的大多數(shù)；the plants that they eat：它們吃的植物，that they eat是定語從句。所以，本句翻譯成：因此，長頸鹿所需的水分大部分都是從它們吃的植物里獲得的。