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All plant cells are capable（有能力的） of taking up water. Even dead ones do to a certain degree. Absorption（吸收） of water by dead cell walls makes wood become larger. In common land plants, the living cells of roots take up most of the water. Land plants without roots do exist, however. Those greenish-yellow lichens（苔藓）you see on rocks in the high mountains have no roots. Half a billion years ago, when water plants started to enter the land, the first land plants did not have roots.

Even among the flowering plants, one finds rootless forms. These flowering plants are “the higher plants” because they evolved（进化） recently and are thus considered higher on the evolutionary scale（进化树）.In the Peruvian desert, there grows one of these rootless higher plants, a bromeliad. It is a relative of the pineapple. Even if this plant had roots, they would be of no use, because where the plant grows, it never rains. The plant gets its water only from the dew（露水）it collects at night, when its leaves cool off. Such rootless plants, of course, can be moved with ease, but they will only grow when they are placed out in the open. If they are placed too near a house, the radiation from the heat of the house prevents the leaves from cooling and so prevents dew from forming, and the plant dies. In the southern United States and in Puerto Rico, one sees bromeliads growing high above the streets on the insulation（绝缘物）of electric wires. These plants get their water from rain, and the only soil they ever come in contact with is the dust that may blow on their leaves.

1.Wood becomes larger because of ______.

A. dead cell walls

B. water entering dead cells

C. the growth of cells

D. the death of cells

2.From the passage we know that the evolutionary scale is graded according to ______.

A. evolutionary cycles

B. heights and depths

C. time

D. kinds

3.The “bromeliad” is a plant that ______.

A. has useless roots

B. is a pineapple

C. can grow anywhere

D. takes up water through its leaves

4.The most suitable title for this passage is “______”.

A. Absorption of water by plants

B. Rootless plants

C. Plants in the desert

D. Higher plants

 

Answer 1

答案：1B2C3D4A
解析：

1、根据第一段中“Absorption（吸收） of water by dead cell walls makes wood become larger.”一句话可以判断出答案。 2、在“These flowering plants are “the higher plants” because they evolved（进化） recently and are thus considered higher on the evolutionary scale（进化树）.” 一句话中recently是关键词。 3、该题为细节题。通读第二段中的有关说明即可。 4、本题为主旨大意题。文章的首句可以看作是主题句。