Some plants get so hungry they eat flies, and even small frogs. What's more amazing is that these plants occur naturally (in special environments) in every state. In fact, they're found on every continent except Antarctica.
You've probably seen a Venus' flytrap -- a small plant, which grows 6 to 8 inches tall in a container. At the end of its stalks (莖) are leaves that act like traps (陷阱). Inside each trap is a lining of tiny hairs. When an insect lands on them, the traps suddenly shut. Over the course of a week or so, the plant feeds on its catch.
The Venus' flytrap is just one of more than 500 species of meat-eating plants, says Barry Meyers-Rice, the editor of the International Carnivorous Plant Society's Newsletter. He states although you might have read some science-fiction stories, no meat-eating plant does any danger to humans.
Barry says a plant is meat-eating, only if it does all four of the following: "attract, kill, digest, and absorb" some form of insects. Meat-eating plants look and act like other green plants -- well, most of the time.
All green plants make sugar to produce food. What makes meat-eating plants different is their special leaves, which need insects for one reason: nitrogen (氮). Nitrogen is a nutrient that they can't obtain any other way. Why?
Almost all green plants on our planet get nitrogen from the soil. Meat-eating plants can't. They live in places where nutrients are hard to get from the soil because of its acidity. So they've come to rely on getting nitrogen from insects and small animals. In fact, nutrient-rich soft is poisonous to meat-eating plants. Never fertilize (施肥) them! But don't worry, either, if they never seem to catch any insects. They can survive, but they'll grow very slowly.
小題1:According to the passage, a Venus' flytrap ______.
A．is a small plant which grows in a container
B．is a kind of plant which gets hungry easily
C．can trap and feed on some form of insects
D．can only grow 6-8 inches tall
小題2:From the passage, we can infer that ______.
A．meat-eating plants are found nowhere else except Antarctica
B．a(chǎn)ll green plants get nitrogen from the soil
C．meat-eating plants endanger humans in science-fiction stories
D．the nutrient-poor soil is beneficial to meat-eating plants
小題3:Meat-eating plants grow very slowly, ______.
A．so you'd better fertilize them
B．probably because the supply of nitrogen is cut off
C．simply because they can't absorb nitrogen from the soil
D．a(chǎn)nd then they will die slowly
小題4:Which of the following is true?
A．Meat-eating plants look and act like other green plants.
B．It's hard to get nutrients in the soil when acidity is high.
C．The Venus' flytrap eats flies to get nutrient from them.
D．Green plants make sugar at night.

小題1:C
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:C

試題分析：文章介紹了食肉植物是如何吃昆蟲的，它們的生活習性，以及和綠色植物的差別是什么。
小題1:細節(jié)題：從第二段的句子：When an insect lands on them, the traps suddenly shut. Over the course of a week or so, the plant feeds on its catch.可知 Venus' flytrap可以捕捉吃一些昆蟲。選C
小題2:推理題;從第三段的句子：He states although you might have read some science-fiction stories, no meat-eating plant does any danger to humans.可知科幻小說中食肉的植物對人有害。選C
小題3:推理題;從最后一段的句子They live in places where nutrients are hard to get from the soil because of its acidity. So they've come to rely on getting nitrogen from insects and small animals.和if they never seem to catch any insects. They can survive, but they'll grow very slowly.可知食肉動物是通過吃昆蟲獲得氮，如果不能吃昆蟲，就會生長緩慢。選B
小題4:推理題;從第五段的句子：What makes meat-eating plants different is their special leaves, which need insects for one reason: nitrogen (氮). 可以推斷出The Venus' flytrap 吃蒼蠅是為了得到營養(yǎng)。選C
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