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It’s always awkward when you meet someone from a different country. You never know whether to shake hands, bow or even whether to kiss on the cheek. But what if you were a dog?
If you are a dog owner, you must be familiar with how your dog says hello to you. Seconds after you arrive home, your dog jumps up on you. You come face to face with a tail-wagging, wildly excited ball of fur that can't get enough of you. If you're not happy with that, it will shower you with wet “kisses" perhaps ruining your best shirt.
Like humans, dogs have five senses: smell, touch, sight, hearing and taste.
Unlike humans, dogs use smell rather than sight to identify others around them. A dog's sense of smell is thousands of times better than that of humans. Your dog can't just tell what a human being smells like, but it can also tell the difference between different members of its human family by their smell.
They also greet each other this way, not eye to eye, but nose to nose.
To be precise, when they first meet each other, they start with a quick sniff of each other's noses. Then they will go side to side, working their way towards the back end.
Dogs smell everything they can during a walk. They sniff grass, bushes, trees and signposts. By doing this, dogs know not only what they are looking at, but which other neighborhood dogs have been around lately. So next time you see your dog sniffing the wrong end of another dog, don't regard it as a bad habit. They are greeting each other.
1. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. It tells readers how to take good care of dogs. B. It tells readers what to do to make dogs happy.
C. It tells readers what dogs do to amuse owners. D. It tells readers how dogs greet others.
2. The phrase “shower you with” in the 2nd paragraph most probably means
A. help you take a bath with B. frighten you with
C. cover you with D. show you his anger by using
3. How does a dog say hello to another one?
A. By sight. B. By both sight and smell.
C. By sight and touch. D. By smell.
【答案】1. D 2. C 3. D
【解析】
這是一篇說明文。文章主要說明了狗是如何打招呼的。與人類不同，狗用嗅覺，而不是視覺來識(shí)別周圍的人。狗的嗅覺比人類的靈敏數(shù)千倍。狗和狗之間也是通過氣味打招呼，狗在散步時(shí)能聞到任何氣味。它們嗅著青草、灌木、樹木和路標(biāo)。通過這樣做，狗不僅知道它們?cè)诳词裁，還知道鄰居家的狗是否在附近。
【1題詳解】
主旨大意題。根據(jù)第二段If you are a dog owner, you must be familiar with how your dog says hello to you. Seconds after you arrive home, your dog jumps up on you. You come face to face with a tail-wagging, wildly excited ball of fur that can't get enough of you. If you're not happy with that, it will shower you with wet “kisses" perhaps ruining your best shirt.可知如果你是狗的主人，你必須熟悉你的狗如何對(duì)你打招呼。你到家?guī)酌腌姾，你的狗就跳到你身上。你面?duì)著一個(gè)搖著尾巴，瘋狂興奮的毛球，它總是對(duì)你愛不夠。如果你對(duì)此不滿意，它會(huì)用濕“吻”淋你，也許會(huì)毀了你最好的襯衫。結(jié)合文章主要說明了狗是如何打招呼的。與人類不同，狗用嗅覺而不是視覺來識(shí)別周圍的人。狗的嗅覺比人類的靈敏數(shù)千倍。狗和狗之間也是通過氣味打招呼，狗在散步時(shí)能聞到任何氣味。它們嗅著青草、灌木、樹木和路標(biāo)。通過這樣做，狗不僅知道它們?cè)诳词裁，還知道最近鄰居家的狗都在附近。由此可知，這篇文章的主旨是告訴讀者，狗是如何打招呼。故選D。
【2題詳解】
詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)后文wet “kisses" perhaps ruining your best shirt可知此處指回到家，狗用濕的舌頭舔主人的臉，用“濕”吻覆蓋你的臉，也許會(huì)毀了你最好的襯衫。由此可知，劃線短語意思為“用……覆蓋”。故選C。
【3題詳解】
細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段They also greet each other this way, not eye to eye, but nose to nose.可知它們互相也這樣打招呼，不是眼對(duì)眼，而是鼻對(duì)鼻。由此可知，一只狗通過嗅覺和另一只狗打招呼。故選D。
