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Did you know that only the female mosquito bites? Well, it’s true. And it’s not because she’s un friendly; she needs blood to re

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问题      Did you know that only the female mosquito bites? Well, it’s true. And it’s not because she’s un friendly; she needs blood to reproduce.
     She’s quite selective, and she chooses her victims carefully. First, she uses sensors to find her victim. These sensors are located on her two antennae and her three pairs of legs. With these sensors, she tests your body moisture, body warmth, and chemical substances in your sweat. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if you don’t appeal to her, she’ll reject you for some one more appetizing.
     If the mosquito likes you, she settles onto your flesh very gently, and she breaks your skin with the tip in front of her nose. This tip is a kind of mouth and it sticks out just below the mosquito’s eyes. It contains six sharp instruments called stylets. She stabs all six stylets into your skin at once, and if she hits a blood vessel, she’ll get a full dinner in about a minute. All this usually takes place too quickly and quietly that you may not have suspected anything was happening.
     Why does your skin itch after the mosquito bites? The itch is not really from the bite. It is from the liquid the mosquito mixes with your blood to keep it from forming into lumps as she sucks it up her proboscis tip. By the time the itching begins, she has gone. Heavy with your blood, she picks a spot--on a leaf or a wall or a stone--to quietly lay her eggs. Just one drop of blood will produce hundreds of eggs.
     All mosquitoes, male and female, pass through their early stages of development in or near water. In fact, mosquito eggs will not hatch without water--although the eggs can survive up to five years on dry land waiting for water. It is not surprising that the heavy rain produce large numbers of mosquitoes.
     Why did nature bother to create mosquitoes? Just to annoy us? Probably that wasn’t the main reason. Male mosquitoes live on the juice of flowers, and they never bite people since they do not need blood to reproduce as the female ones. Of course, mosquitoes have to reproduce, and unfortunately that’s where you and I come in. Like it or not, mosquitoes are here to stay.
What does the female mosquito use to test her victim’s body and sweat?
选项 A、Her sensors.
B、Her antennae.
C、Her legs.
D、Her tip.
答案A
解析 根据文章第二段可知蚊子先用它的传感器来检测要咬的人身体的温度、湿度及其汗液中的化学成分。B和C是蚊子的传感器所在的位置。D是蚊子用来咬人的器官。
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