Can plants eat people? Probably not，but there are many plants that eat meat．Some of them are big．And they can eat small animals．One famous meat-eating plant is the Venus flytrap(捕蠅草)．
The Venus flytrap is a very strange plant．It grows in dry parts of the United States．Its leaves are like the pages of a book．They can open and close very quickly．Inside the leaves，there are three small hairs．If a fly touches one of the hairs，the leaf closes quickly．The fly cannot get out．In about half an hour，the leaf presses the fly until it is dead．Then，the plant covers the fly．Slowly，the plant eats the fly．
Why do plants do it? Most plants get what they need from the sun，the air，and the ground．In some places，the ground is very poor．It doesn’t have all these important things，
especially nitrogen(氮)．Animal meat has a lot of nitrogen， so some plants eat meat to get what they need．Let’s hope that some of the bigger plants don’t get the same idea !
小題1:The Venus flytrap is a kind of_________．
A．plantB．animalC．foodD．meat
小題2:The Venus flytrap grows in_________．
A．most parts of the worldB．some parts of Africa
C．dry parts of the United StatesD．wet parts of England
小題3:From the passage，we learn that_________．
A．all plants can eat peopleB．all plants can eat animals
C．some plants can eat peopleD．some plants can eat animals
小題4:The underlined word“presses”probably means________ in Chinese．
A．擠壓B．關上C．打開D．松開
小題5:—Why do some plants eat animal meat? —Because_________．
A．plants are dangerous to animals
B．animals are dangerous to plants
C．plants want to get what they need from animal me
D．plants want to protect themselves against animals

小題1:A
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:A
小題5:C
小題1:根據(jù)第一段最后一句One famous meat-eating plant is the Venus flytrap.知答案應選A：
小題2:根據(jù)第二段第一、二句“The Venus flytrap is a very strange plant．It grows in dry parts of the United States．”知答案應選C：捕蠅草生長在美國的干燥地區(qū)。
小題3:根據(jù)文章后兩段知：Some plants can eat animals to get what they need．
小題4:根據(jù)第二段的描述，捕蠅草是通過它那像書頁一樣的葉片的開和閉合來吃蠅的，知press是“擠壓”之意。
小題5:根據(jù)文中“Why do plants do it? Most plants get what they need from the sun，the air，and the ground．In some places，the ground is very poor．It doesn’t have all these important things，especially nitrogen．Animal meat has a lot of nitrogen， so some plants eat meat to get what they need．”知答案應選C。
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