1101 华南理工大学 2012 年攻读博士学位研究生入学考试试卷 (试卷上做答无效,请在答题纸上做答,试后本卷必须与答题纸一同交回) 科目名称:英语 共 14 页 第 1 页 Part I. Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) Color is very important to most animals for it helps them to get along in the world. Color 1 to make an animal difficult for its enemies to see. Many animals match their 2 so well that as long as they do not move no one is 3 to see them. You probably have often ―jumped‖ a rabbit. If you 4 , you know how the rabbit sits perfectly still 5 you are just a few feet away. You 6 see the rabbit till it runs for its 7 matches very closely the place where it is 8 . Many times you may have walked past a rabbit 9 didn’t run and you never knew it was there at all. One of the most usual color schemes that helps animals to keep 10 being seen, is a dark back and light underpants. If an animal is the same color all 11 , there is always a dark shadow along the animal’s belly. 12 an enemy couldn’t see the animal he could see this dark shadow. The shadow makes the animal 13 out to view. But if the belly is 14 than the rest of the animal, the shadow will not be noticed. You can see this light underpants in many kinds of animals. There is one very 15 example. In the Nile River lives a certain kind of catfish that swims upside down. I haven’t the faintest idea 16 this catfish likes to float 17 its back. It doesn’t seem to make 18 . That’s what this catfish 19 , however. And, would you believe it, this catfish has a white back and a dark belly! Its bac...