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While faking and fierce looks are among animals great defenses, many species know that everyone runs from a big stink(臭气)too.

Vulture(秃鸳)

Vultures, are street sweepers that feast on the rotting flesh of dead animals, which benefits us by ridding our highways and landscapes of animal bodies and the bacteria they might carry. When vultures feel threatened they vomit, and the smell of vomited-on dead bodies puts of most predators. Throwing up allows the vulture to fly away more quickly-and the vomit can hurt the aggressor's eyes and face.

Opossum(负鼠)

In some ways opossums have it easy. In order to become “dead", they don’t have to fax anyone a death certificate. They just lie there with their tongues hanging out with the smell of dead flesh, sometimes for hours, effectively convincing potential predators they can find a much fresher meal elsewhere. Even if they keep getting attacked, they won't move any more than a human statue until the threat has passed.

Hoatzin(磨雉)

Hold your nose and meet the hoatzin, a bird of distinctions, not the least of which is that it smells like fresh cow shit. The animal mostly eats leaves and it's the only bird known to digest by fermentation, like a cow. This process is what causes its smell and has earned it the nickname the “stink bird

Millipedes (千足虫)

Millipedes are tricky. For starters they look wormy. Their name is deceptive, too: Their legs number about 750. Their major defense is to curl up into a ball. They, though, also release a harm eyes, and leave a horrible smell on their attackers.

Sea Hare(海兔)

The graceful sea hare is plain in taste in the first place, so it's not the most popular dish in the seafood chain. Nonetheless this type of sea creature has a pretty creative smell-related defense that is almost the opposite of its smelly companions on this list. The sea hare gives out a slimy, purple ink, the substance which makes food less palatable to predators.

Researchers using lobsters(2-f)as model predators found that the sea blocks the lobsters receptive mechanism. In other words, the sea hare gives its attacker the equivalent of a stuffy nose so they don't know how appealing it is.

1.The sea hare defends itself from predators by ____.

A. becoming plain in taste at the discovery of a predator

B. giving out purple ink to make itself invisible to predators

C. releasing substance to make predators unable to smell it

D. giving off smelly gas to try to drive predators away.

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The vulture carries bacteria so that predators dare not get close to it.

B. The opossum fakes its death to avoid being targeted by predators.

C. The hoatzin eats cow shit so that it is nick-named as “stink bird

D. The gas released by millipede was basically harmless

3.The species that enjoys more than one defense mechanism is

A. vulture

B. opossum

C. millipede

D. sea hare

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