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Large animals that inhabit the desert have evolved a number of adaptations for reducing the effects of extreme heat. One adaptat

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问题     Large animals that inhabit the desert have evolved a number of adaptations for reducing the effects of extreme heat. One adaptation is to be light in color, and to reflect rather than absorb the Sun’s rays. Desert mammals also depart from the normal mammalian practice of maintaining a constant body temperature. Instead of trying to keep down the body temperature deep inside the body, which would involve the expenditure of water and energy, desert mammals allow their temperatures to rise to what would normally be fever height, and temperatures as high as 46 degrees Celsius have been measured in Grant’s gazelles. The overheated body then cools down during the cold desert night, and indeed the temperature may fall unusually low by dawn, as low as 34 degrees Celsius in the camel. This is an advantage since the heat of the first few hours of daylight is absorbed in warming up the body, and an excessive buildup of heat does not begin until well into the day.
    Another strategy of large desert animals is to tolerate the loss of body water to a point that would be fatal for non-adapted animals. The camel can lose up to 30 percent of its body weight as water without harm to itself, whereas human beings die after losing only 12 to 13 percent of their body weight. An equally important adaptation is the ability to replenish (Sheik) this water loss at one drink. Desert animals can drink huge volumes in a short time, and camels have been known to imbibe (吸收) over 100 liters in a few minutes. A very dehydrated person, on the other hand, cannot drink enough water to rehydrate at one session, because the human stomach is not sufficiently big and because a too rapid dilution of the body fluids causes death from water intoxication. The tolerance of water loss is of obvious advantage in the desert, as animals do not have to remain near a water hole but can obtain food from grazing sparse pastures. Desert-adapted mammals have the further ability to feed normally when extremely dehydrated, it is a common experience in people that appetite is lost even under conditions of moderate thirst.
What will be fatal to non-adapted animals?
选项 A、Keeping a normal body temperature.
B、Drinking polluted water.
C、Drinking huge volumes of water in a short time.
D、Feeding when dehydrated.
答案C
解析 文章第二段倒数三句“A very dehydrated person，on the other hand，cannot drink enough water to rehydrate at one session，because the human stomach is not sufficiently big and because a too rapid dilution of the body fluids causes death from water intoxication．”说的是当人在脱水后，因为胃不够大，过快的大量补水会导致体液稀释，然后造成水中毒。．造成死亡就是题干当中的fatal的意思，因此C是符合题意的选择。而A保持正常的体温；B引用受过污染的水；D脱水的时候吃东西这三个选择项都是不符合题 意。因此选A  Drinking huge volumes of water in a short time．可以在短时间内引用大量的水是正确答案。
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