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  3. It takes a long time to raise a family of owlets, so the great horned owl begins early in the year. In January and February, or

It takes a long time to raise a family of owlets, so the great horned owl begins early in the year. In January and February, or

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问题    It takes a long time to raise a family of owlets, so the great horned owl begins early in the year. In January and February, or as late as March in the North, the male calls to the female with a resonant hoot. The female is larger than the male. She sometimes reaches a body length of twenty-two to twenty-four inches, with a wingspread up to fifty inches. To impress her, the male does a strange courtship dance. He bobs. He bows. He ruffles his feathers and hops around with an important air. He flutters from limb to limb and makes flying sorties into the air. Sometimes he returns with an offering of food. They Share the repast (食)after which she joins the dance, hopping and bobbing about as though keeping time to the heat of an inner drum.
   Owls are poor home builders. They prefer to nest in a large hollow in a tree or even to occupy the deserted nest of a hawk or crow. These structures are large and rough, built of sticks and bark and lined with leaves and feathers. Sometimes owls nest on a rocky ledge, or even on the bare ground.
   The mother lays two or three round, dull white eggs. Then she stoically settles herself on the nest and spreads her feather skirts about her to protect her precious charges from snow and cold.
   It is five weeks before the first downy white owlet peeks its way out of the shell. As the young birds feather out, they look like wise old men with their wide eyes and quizzical expressions. They clamor for food and keep the parents busy supplying mice, squirrels, rabbits, crayfish, and beetles. Later in the season baby crows are taken. Migrating songsters, waterfowl, and game birds all fall prey to the hungry family. It is nearly ten weeks before fledglings leave the nest to search for their own food. The parent birds weary of family life by November and drive the young owls away to establish hunting ranges of their own.
It can be inferred from the passage that the courtship of great horned owls ______.
选项 A、takes place on the ground
B、is an active process
C、happens in the hall
D、involves the males alone
答案B
解析 文章的第一段基本讲述的都是带触须的大猫头鹰的求偶过程：“在一、二月份，北方则晚至三月，雄猫头鹰便用嘹亮的声音向雌猫头鹰发出叫喊。……为了吸引它，雄猫头鹰会跳起一种奇怪的求爱舞。它时而上下跳动，时而鞠躬，时而竖起羽毛，时而不可一世地四处蹦跳。它还不断地振翅飞向天空。有时雄猫头鹰还带来吃的，似乎和着心鼓的节拍与雌猫头鹰蹦蹦跳跳，然后一起分享美餐。”可见文中这些动词都是用来描述雄猫头鹰求偶时的动作的，因而选[B]。其中“振翅飞向天空”说明[A]不对；“在一、二月份，北方则晚至三月”说明[C]不对；“与雌猫头鹰蹦蹦跳跳”说明[D]不对。
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