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ot see them. Then the female penguins lay their eggs and go away for about two months. The males take care of the eggs. If the eggs get cold, there will be no chicks. There is no food. The snow falls heavily and the wind blows strongly— sometimes at 150 kilometers an hour. The penguins do not move. When the females return from the sea, they will not remember their husbands. It does not matter. Only one thing matters— the eggs. Male penguins never fight— unless a penguin leaves a chick for a minute. They then fight because they all want it. They are strange and wonderful birds. 根據(jù)短文內容選擇最佳答案 。 ground B. it leaves a chick for a minute C. it wants to get something to eat D. it chooses its wives 3. From the passage we know that penguins live ______ life. A. an active B. a quiet C. a hard D. a simple 4. The penguins choose their wives in the dark. We can infer(推斷) that ______. A. penguins like nights very much B. there is no daytime in that place at all C. the weather is cloudy and rainy all the year around D. the sun can39。t move even though the wind often blows strongly. C. Female penguins take care of the eggs. D. Male penguins use their ears to choose wives. ( 2) Strange things happen to time when you travel because the earth is divided into twentyfour zones(時區(qū)), one hour apart(一個時區(qū)相差一個小時). You can have days with more or fewer than twentyfour hours, and weeks with more or fewer than seven days. If you make a fiveday trip across the Atlantic Ocean(大西洋), your ship enters a different time zone every day. As you enter each zone, the time changes one hour. Traveling west, you set your clock back, traveling east, you set it ahead. Each day of your trip has either twentyfive or twentythree