Ⅰ.阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)
第一节(共12小题;每小题2.5分,满分30分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
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Scientists who try to predict earthquakes have gotten some new helpers recently—animals.
That’s right,animals.Scientists have begun to understand what farmers have known for thousands of years.Animals often seem to know in advance that an earthquake is coming,and they show their fear by acting in strange ways.Before a Chinese quake in 1975,snakes awoke from their winter sleep early only to freeze to death in the cold air.Cows broke their halters (缰绳) and tried to escape.
