六、 閱讀測驗：  （1.~5.）                                                      Young Giraffes       You and I learnt to walk when we were a few months old, but baby giraffescan walk after only twenty minutes. Baby giraffes live in a dangerous world.Lions and other animals like to eat them, so the babies must learn quickly.They learn to run fast and to stay on their feet almost all of the time. Even atnight, giraffes do not lie down. They stand by a tree and sleep. Big giraffeshave long legs and they can run at fifty kilometers per hour. The English wordgiraffe comes from the Arabic word    xirapha   . The word means, “run fast”.       Giraffes also have very long tongues. A giraffe’s tongue can be fiftycentimeters long! Giraffes use their tongues for cleaning themselves. Theycan even clean their ears with their tongues! Their tongues are very importantfor other things, too. A giraffe’s favorite food is green leaves from acacia trees.These trees have sharp thorns, but the giraffe’s tongue can go between the thorns.The giraffe’s long neck is important because the best leaves are at the tops of the trees. Giraffes lovethese leaves, and they eat for about eighteen hours every day. almost 幾乎 lie down 躺下 per 每 Arabic 阿拉伯tongue 舌頭 acacia tree 金合歡樹 sharp 尖銳的 thorn 刺

【題組】1. Giraffes do not often ______.
(A) run.
(B) sit down.
(C) sleep.
(D) drink.