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V. Reading Comprehension : (每題 2 分，共 10 分)
 A researcher at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is part of a small team thatannounced it had identified the Western Hemisphere’s first new carnivore  species in 35 years. The olinguito — pronounced oh-lin-GHEE-toe — is a 2-pound member of the raccoon family that lives in the cloud-draped canopy of mountaintop rain forests in Ecuador and Colombia.Kinkajous and olingos, along with raccoons, coatis, ringtails and cacomistles, all belong to theProcyonidae family. In fact, several specimens of olinguitos had been collected and preserved inscience museums around the country, but most had been miscataloged as olingos, their larger, morecommon kin. The scientists needed DNA comparisons to confirm the specimens represented a distinct species.“We should go see if we can find them,” said Roland Kays, director of the biodiversity lab at the statescience museum and a research associate professor of mammalogy at North Carolina State University.Tags and notes indicating where the specimens had been collected led the researchers to the cloudforests of South America. Kays and Helgen, his colleague, headed to the Otonga Reserve in Ecuador,where they were joined by Pinto, who had managed to capture grainy, nighttime images of the elusivecreatures.Their first night out, they saw them, high above, working the treetops and feeding on tomato-sizedfigs that grew there. They collected two of the animals; one stayed in Ecuador for study and one wasbrought back to the Smithsonian.DNA testing proved the animals’ distinctness. All that remained was for the team to name theolinguito — “little olingo” in Spanish — and publish their findings. “It’s the discovery of a lifetime,”said Kays, 42, who came to the museum a year ago and constantly looks for ways to use technology toteach museum visitors about biology.An exhibit across the way from the lab where Kays works indicates how rare the team’s find is. Itsays that biologists have catalogued 1.8 million species so far, and while 15,000 new species aredocumented each year, most of those are insects and amphibians, or the occasional bat or rat.
【題組】31.The word carnivore in paragraph refers to an animal that ___________.
(A) only eats plants
(B) has a backbone
(C) is cold-blooded
(D) eats flesh 

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.518519
統計：A(8),B(8),C(9),D(28),E(0)

用户評論

【用戶】Sophia Su

【年級】高二下

【評論內容】carnivore 肉食動物者, (相反詞)  herbivore 草食動物者cloud-draped 懸掛著雲的; canopy芎蒼

【用戶】衝刺必勝G&L

【年級】高二下

【評論內容】科學分類界：動物界 Animalia門：脊索動物門 Chordata綱：哺乳綱 Mammalia目：食肉目 Carnivora科：浣熊科 Procyonidae屬：犬浣熊屬 Bassaricyon種：小型犬浣熊 B. neblina二名法BassaricyonneblinaHelgen, 2013小型犬浣熊(Olinguito) 小型犬浣熊 (Bassaricyonneblina)是浣熊科犬浣熊屬的一種哺乳動物，在2013年8月15日由美國科學家向全世界介紹這新發現的物種...