2024年6月大学英语四级模拟题：阅读理解（1）

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　　2024年6月大学英语四级模拟题：阅读理解（1）

　　A nine-armed octopus ( 章鱼 ) caught off Japan’s coast nearly ended up being dinner, until the family preparing it noticed its extra limb and sent it to a museum instead, according to The Mainichi, a Japanese newspaper.

　　While unusual, this extra appendage ( 附加物 )—which wasn’t fully formed, but a small branch on a regular arm—isn’t unheard of in octopuses, said a well-known zoologist Juan Somavia, who was not involved with this octopus’s discovery.

　　Michael Vecchione, an invertebrate ( 无脊椎动物 ) zoologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., share the same view with Somavia. “Octopuses are capable of regenerating their arms, but sometimes regeneration doesn’t work quite right,” Somavia told Live Science. “If an arm gets damaged, it might regenerate wrong; it could wind up with extra tissue growing out, and that extra tissue could turn into an arm.”

　　The nine-armed oddity was caught in a trap with three other octopuses on Nov. 13 in Shizugawa Bay, in the northeastern town of Minamisanriku, Japan. Shizugawa Bay is about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of the now decommissioned (已停止使用的) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which had a nuclear meltdown following a disastrous 7.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami in 2011. It is widely acknowledged that it’s likely that the octopus’ ninth arm was caused by radiation poisoning. But Vecchione didn’t think so. Reports of bifurcated (分岔的) octopus arms have been catalogued all over the world for years, he said. For instance, a 1960 report in the journal Nature describes an octopus at the University of Miami Marine Laboratory that had “an abnormal third left arm” with two branches, according to the report’s author. A 1965 study in the journal Proceedings of the Japan Academy described numerous octopuses with more than eight arms, including one that had 90.

　　Having just one bifurcated arm probably doesn’t affect an octopus, because it’s small and simply dangles ( 来回摆动着 ) off the arm; it might even be functional and have the ability to move and feel, Vecchione said. “The worst case is that it’s just sort of dragging

　　there, but it probably wouldn’t be too much of damage,” he said. However, octopuses with many arms might face more challenges. “That might affect their ability to hunt or swim,” he said.

　　46. What can we get from the Japanese newspaper The Mainichi?

　　A) An octopus with an extra arm was captured on the coast.

　　B) An octopus with nine arms was everyday dinner at fishermen’s table.

　　C) Scientists were interested in the nine-armed octopus displayed in the museum.

　　D) Scientists worried about the damage to octopuses brought by the ninth arm.

　　47. What did Juan Somavia say about a small branch on a regular arm of octopuses?

　　A) It was not people’s first discovery.

　　B) It had been fully formed.

　　C) It amazed people living along the coast.

　　D) It was covered with poisonous bumps.

　　48. According to Michael Vecchione, octopuses can _____________.

　　A) generate new arms by themselves.

　　B) escape with the help of extra arms.

　　C) develop tissues in favorable surroundings.

　　D) spare any difficulties in Shizugawa Bay.

　　49. What is the popular belief of the nine-armed octopus?

　　A) It is a sign of biological evolution.

　　B) Its appearance is related to climate change.

　　C) It will generate more than nine branches.

　　D) It is the result of nuclear meltdown.

　　50. What challenge may octopuses with many arms face?

　　A) Inability to react to external stimulation.

　　B) Poor capability to catch food and swim.

　　C) Failure to fight against natural enemies.

　　D) Trouble in adapting to the environment.

　　答案：

　　46. A

　　47. A

　　48. A

　　49. D

　　50. B

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