Вопрос № 605285 - Английский язык

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1 _______. There wild cats were tamed and trained to keep down the rats and the mice in the well-stocked granaries.
2 _______. It was certainly many thousands of years ago, and the experts agree that the dog was probably a member of the wolf tribe.
The original goldfish were natives of China and are members of the carp family.
3 _______.
The guinea-pig is a native of South Africa. It was domesticated by the Indians long before the Spanish Conquest. 4 _______.

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1_______. Today’s inhabitants of the caves have come here to escape the noise and confusion of modern life. 2_______. ‘It’s cool in the summer and warm in the winter. I don’t want to live in a big modern building in a big city.’ People there love their homes.3_______. ‘It’s all natural,’ said Mustafa Yedek, a local tour guide. 4_______. The air is clean; they didn’t use chemicals to build these homes! ‘We think the caves can add a good fifteen years to the length of your life,’ said Mr Yedek.

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The camel has always been an enigmatic beast, and only now scientific research has shown that the camel does not store water in his hump. That is an old wives’ tale. 1 _______. It seems that muscles and other tissues act as a kind of reservoir that can provide several litres of water if needed. 2 _______. At the end of that period he had lost 202 pounds, but made it all up in ten minutes by drinking 16 gallons of water when they let him near an oasis.
3 _______. He never pants, never breathes with his mouth open even in the hottest weather in the Sahara. And he perspires so little that his skin always feels completely dry. He allows his body temperature to rise 11˚F above the normal, while his thick coat of fur keeps out the heat of the desert. The Arabs with their thick cloaks have obviously learnt from their beast of burden. 4 _______.

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Man has developed mechanical contraptions to help him travel quickly, but Nature has equipped some of her creatures with built-in speed. 1 _______. A jack rabbit can build up a speed of about forty-five miles an hour when a hound is close behind it. 2 _______. The white-tailed deer can do almost fifty miles an hour when it needs to and a long-legged ostrich can tiptoe over the ground at nearly a mile a minute. 3 _______. Many of the large fishes in the ocean can keep up with the fastest ocean liners man has made. There is one fish, the wahoo that can scoot along at seventy miles an hour. The really speedy animals, though, are animals of the air. 4 _______. A fast bird may even reach a speed of some aeroplanes.

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1 _______. Their colour and smell attract insects such as flies and wasps. The insects climb into the neck of the pitcher, slip down the sides and down in the water at the bottom. 2 ________. Pitcher plants have small lids to keep rain out. Pitcher plants don’t always manage to catch insects. 3 _______. It makes its web in the neck of the plant. Flies and other insects, which climb into the plant don’t fall right to the bottom. 4 _______.

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1 _______. A coral attaches itself to a rock or sand. At the top of the polyp tube there is a mouth. The mouth has special tubes, something like feelers, which suck in water plankton and small fish. 2 _______. But how does a coral get calcium for its cup? The warm seawater is full of the calcium needed by a polyp for growing its cup. The softbodied polyp sits in this hard cup which it builds up around itself from calcium. And the hard reef is the cup, or “skeleton” itself. 3 _______. Only in the waters near the equator there is enough calcium, for the reef-builders.
Reef-building corals live in groups or colonies. 4 _______. When the tiny polyps die, their skeletons remain. Other corals attach themselves to hard shells and, later on, also die. A mass of dead coral rises about three feet high in 1,000 years.