To many web-building spiders, most of whom are nearly blind, the web is their essential window on the world: their means of communicating, capturing prey（獵物）, meeting mates and protecting themselves. A web-building spider without its web is like a men cast away on an island of solid rock，totally out of touch and destined to

starve to death.
So important is the web to an orb-web spider's survival that the animal will continue to construct new webs daily even if it is being starved. For 16 days the starving spider builds completely normal webs. Then, as the animal gets scrawnier（憔悴的）， it constructs a wider-meshed web using fewer strands（線）. Such webs would only trap larger prey, which is more economical from the perspective of a starving spider.
The spider stores energy by recycling web protein. It simply eats its own web each evening and reuses it to produce new silk. In studies with radioactively，labeled materials, it was found that 95 percent of web protein reappears in the next day' web. Most of the energy needed for web-building is used in walking over the strands as they are laid down．
Scientists are impressed by the adaptability of the spider's highly preprogrammed brain, which is larger for its size than the brain of any other invertebrate（無脊推動物）．If web-building is interrupted, or if some of the existing strands are destroyed，the spider simply goes back to see where the web is left off and then finishes building a normal web. One spider will finish building the incomplete web of another.　
小題1: Which of the following best expresses the main ideas of the passage?
A．Secrets of Spiders' AdaptabilityB．Importance of Webs to Spiders
C．Secrets of the Spiders' Life D．Spiders' Highly Preprogrammed Brain
小題2:According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A．Most spiders will stop conducting webs when hungry.
B．One Web-building spider usually conducts one web.
C．Web-building spiders will probably die without their webs．
D．Web-building spiders have good eyesight.
小題3:A spider conducts a wider-meshed web when____________.
A．it is 16 days oldB．it is getting weaker
C．it has fewer wendsD．it hunts for food
小題4:A spider's ability to finish an incomplete web proves that___________.
A．it has a highly preprogrammed brainB．it reuses its web protein to reproduce new silk
C．the web is everything for a spiderD．it is able to rebuild a destroyed web

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:A

小題1:從文章第一段以及第二段句首可知B項最佳。
小題2:從第一段可知。
小題3:從第二段第三句可知。
小題4:文章最后一段第一句為主題句，所以蜘蛛織完未完的網(wǎng)是它的本能，因為它有一顆有較高預(yù)排程序的大腦來適應(yīng)環(huán)境。
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A．How the caves were formed on Mars.B．How scientists found these caves on Mars.
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Believe it or not, optical illusion(錯覺) can cut highway crashes.
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Now the American Automobile Association Foundation(基金會) for Traffic Safety in Washington D.C. is planning to repeat Japan’s success. Starting next year, the foundation will paint chevrons and other patterns of stripes on selected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce highway crashes.
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Some studies suggest that straight, horizontal bars painted across roads can initially cut the average speed of drivers in half. However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become used to seeing the painted bars.
Chevrons, scientists say, not only give drivers the impression that they are driving faster than they really are but also make a lane appear to be narrower. The result is a longer lasting reduction in highway speed and the number of traffic accidents.
小題1:The passage mainly discusses ________.
A．a(chǎn) new way of highway speed control
B．a(chǎn) new pattern for painting highways
C．a(chǎn) new way of training drivers
D．a(chǎn) new type of optical illusion
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B．change the road signs across the country
C．replace straight, horizontal bars with chevrons
D．repeat the Japanese road patterns
小題5:What does the author say about straight, horizontal bars painted across roads?
A．They are suitable only on broad roads.
B．They are falling out of use in the United States.
C．They are ignored in a long period of time.
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