Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks.CARNIVOROUS PLANTSAll plants rely on nutrients taken from the soil in order to survive. However, in areas where the soil does not contain enough (35)_____ nutrients, some plants have adapted to (36) _____ their diets from another source: living organisms. Though they are few in number, carnivorous plants are (37)_____ fascinating beings that “eat” anything...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks.
CARNIVOROUS PLANTS
All plants rely on nutrients taken from the soil in order to survive. However, in areas where the soil does not contain enough (35)_____ nutrients, some plants have adapted to (36) _____ their diets from another source: living organisms. Though they are few in number, carnivorous plants are (37)_____ fascinating beings that “eat” anything from one-celled organisms to insects in order to survive. They are commonly found in marshlands. Carnivorous plants feature one of several types of “traps” to ensnare prey, which they consume to make up for nutrients that may be missing from the soil. While there are over 400 species of carnivorous plants in the world today, some are more (38)_____ than others.
The most well-known of these plants are the snap traps, which include the Venus flytrap. Snap traps are easily identified by their leaves, which are separated into two lobes that have the ability to fold together. Inside the lobes, the surface is covered with tiny hairs that are (39) _____ to movement. When the plant’s prey brushes against the hairs, it triggers a closing mechanism that rapidly brings the two lobes together, trapping the prey (40)_____ inside. The response of the traps is phenomenal (41)_____ speed: the time between triggering the hairs and snapping shut is less than a second. As the prey struggles inside the trap, it only triggers more hairs, causing the leaves to tighten their (42) _____. The plant then secrets liquid chemicals from special glands into the trap to dissolve the prey and absorb all of its nutrients. Besides the Venus flytrap, only one other type of snap trap exists today, (43)_____ to as the waterwheel plant. The two share a common ancestor and differ only in a few ways. For instance, the waterwheel is an aquatic plant, while the flytrap is exclusively terrestrial. In addition, the flytrap feeds primarily on arthropods like spiders, while the waterwheel lives (44)_____ simple invertebrates, like certain types of plankton.
Điền vào ô 36
A. modify
B. enlarge
C. augment
D. supplement
1. By the time young man (arrive) __arrived__ to make his call the old gentleman (be) __had been__ generally sound asleep.
2. Today gardening (practise) _practises___ all over the world
3. Plants use nutrients obtained from soil (build) _to build___ the cells and tissues (need) __need__ for growth.
4. In addition to (lose) __lose__ all my money, I realized my credit card (steal) __stolen__.
6. I'd be interested (know) _to know___ if the Chair in Astrophysics (be) __were__ still vacant.
In additon to losing all my money,
Cấu trúc: in addition to + sth/V-ing
In addition to: Bên cạnh việc gi đó