In the forest or in the fields you can often see small hills of earth and busy little ants. Ants live in different 21. An ant has two strong jaws to22 soil, to cup up food, to 23 the eggs or the young.
The head of an ant is triangular(三角形), with two eyes for 24 uses and sometimes three more very small 25, which are made up of many parts, 26 the ant can see 27 that moves around it. Some of these eyes see things near it; others can see things 28 in the distance.
The ant has six legs. Its feelers have twelve joins(接合点), 29 which the ant finds its 30 in its underground home. Some ants do not 31 nests, but make use of holes under stones or logs. Other ants build their little hills with 32, bits of wood, sand and earth.
The life of ants is not only 33 and play. They must have rest too. But they don’t 34 long. When waking up, they begin to 35 themselves. They use their tongues just 36 a cat uses hers.
Ants have a good 37. When an ant, which has been away for a long time, returns to its nest, the others 38 it and show their greatest joy at its return. But if a strange ant 39 their nest, the ants will 40 the stranger killed at once.
21. A. hills | B. countries | C. places | D. holes |
22. A. water | B. find | C. eat | D. dig |
23. A. carry | B. lay | C. turn | D. pick |
24. A. different | B. small | C. large | D. the same |
25. A. eyes | B. noses | C. mouths | D. feelers |
26. A. yet | B. or | C. also | D. so |
27. A. anything | B. everything | C. nothing | D. something |
28. A. far off | B. around | C. about | D. after |
29. A. without | B. with | C. for | D. in |
30. A. food | B. bed | C. way | D. friend |
31. A. leave | B. find | C. build | D. repair |
32. A. trunks | B. roots | C. branches | D. leaves |
33. A. study | B. work | C. search | D. walk |
34. A. grow up | B. wander | C. stay up | D. sleep |
35. A. feed | B. clean | C. sing | D. clear |
36. A. if | B. and | C. while | D. as |
37. A. eyesight | B. virtue | C. memory | D. strength |
38. A. recognize | B. realize | C. know | D. see |
39. A. breaks | B. enters | C. finds | D. leaves |
40. A. force | B. allow | C. have | D. show |