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  3. Owls are airborne invaders-powerful in flight, intimidating in repose and perching in numbers far beyond anything anyone remembe

Owls are airborne invaders-powerful in flight, intimidating in repose and perching in numbers far beyond anything anyone remembe

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问题    Owls are airborne invaders-powerful in flight, intimidating in repose and perching in numbers far beyond anything anyone remembers in the woods of northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Among those staring back is avid bird-watcher Sharon Stiteler, the queen of BirdChick. com. "Oh, I love owls," she says. And there are plenty of them to love-more than 2,000 Great Grey owls and Northern Hawk owls have swooped down from Canada. Stiteler braves subzero temperatures, learning the language and trying to get as close as she can.
   The owls’favorite delicacy, meadow voles-small mouse-like rodents-are scarce in Canada this winter. So the owls, wisely, headed south. "They will actually extend their talons forward and crash through the snow, and capture the voles without ever seeing them!" exclaims Carrol Henderson with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Over 2,000Great Greys have come this year, more than five times the highest number ever recorded. Tagging along are 300 smaller Hawk owls. "I don’t think anybody right now is thinking that we’re going to see anything like this again in our lifetime," says wildlife biologist Jim Lind.
   But there is a problem facing these visitors from the northern wilderness. They are low-flying hunters and, as a result, are very vulnerable when they swoop down over roadways. About 250 have already been hit and killed by cars. Survivors are nurtured back to health at the University of Minnesota’s raptor center.
   No stranger to the cold, avian researcher Dave Grosshuesh captures and bands many owls, studying their movement, age and overall health. Not far away, Sharon Stiteler shivers on her own. But birders from as far away as New York and California often migrate here to marvel. Is all this for the birds? "Some people spend oodles on shoes; some people spend oodles on their nails," says Stiteler. "I spend oodles of time and money on birds!" Still, come spring these northern nomads will likely be gone, leaving behind the lingering memory of their haunting stares.
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about owls?
选项 A、Owls are powerful in flight.
B、Owls like rodents.
C、Owls have better eyesight than many other animals.
D、Owls are easily hit and killed by cars.
答案C
解析 细节题。选项A在文章的第一段就被提及到了，所以不是正确答案。选项B在讨论第94题时涉及到了，在这里就不再重复。选项D出现在文章的第三段，作者还提供了被汽车撞伤和撞死的owls的具体数字。只有选项C没有被涉及到，所以是正确答案。
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