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高频话题补充 生活百科[4篇 建议用时半周]
河南英语
英语
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话题角度:生活百科知识(10年4考)
Passage 1
【读前预先练】
1.probably(adv.)________
很可能
2.temperature(n.)______
温度
3.degrees(n.)____
度
4.researchers(n.)__________
研究人员
5.do an experiment____________
做一个实验
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6.test(v.)____________(n.)____________
检测,测验
测试,检测
7.surprisingly(adv.)____________
出人意料地
8.sense(v.)____________
感知,察觉
9.warm-blooded(adj.)________________
温血的,热情的
10.hunting(n.)____________
狩猎,搜寻
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object between it easy show test until fact low that
Have you ever played with a dog? If that dog touched
you with its nose, you were probably surprised at how cold
1. ___ was. If dogs are so warm and fluffy(毛茸茸的),
why are their noses so cold?
it
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In the past, people thought that dogs had cold noses to help them
control their body temperature. However, a new study has 2. _______
some interesting 3.______ about dogs’ noses. For example, the tempera-
ture of the dog’s nose is about five degrees 4. _______ than that of the air. But why?
shown
facts
lower
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The researchers believed that the dog’s nose has such a sensory
function(探测功能). So they did an experiment to 5. _____ it. The
research team studied three dogs. For the experiment, the dogs had to tell
the difference 6. _________ two objects. Surprisingly, all three dogs were
able to sense the temperature difference so 7. _______.
The study also found 8. _____ the heat from the objects in the
experiment “was too weak to be felt by human hands”. The dogs were
test
between
easily
that
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able to sense these heated objects from a distance(距离) but humans
couldn’t feel the warmth of the object 9. ______ they touched it.
To know more about it, the research team also studied the brain
activity of 13 dogs. When a warm 10. _______ was put near their noses,
there was an increase in brain activity. From the two experiments, we
can know that dogs are able to sense heat from warm-blooded animals. If
this function is used for hunting, it will be of great he