THE AUTHOR’S ATTITUDE TOWARD RALPH EARL IS __________. A. ANTAGONIS...

70.The author’s attitude toward Ralph Earl is __________. A. antagonistic B.neutral C.admiring D.unflatteringIV. Read the following passage and choose the most suitable phrase from A-G tofill in each gap.( question 71 to75).There are two extra phrases that you don’t need to use. Write the answer on your answer sheet. (5pts) A. they went out in the midday sun B. pass their entire lives without a single drop C. lies in the combination of behavior and physiology D. they are not emaciated E.live in an accommodating environment F. are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat G. they slept during the day Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man’s inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert (71)_____________. Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist-skinned water- loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found. The giants of the North American desert_(72)_____________. . Since desert country is open, it holds more swift-footed running and leaping creatures than the tangled forest. Its population is largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet(73)_________. Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere else in the world. The secret of their adjustment(74) _________. None could survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, (75)_____________, many would die in a matter of minutes. So most of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrowsunderneath the ground, emerging to hunt only by night. The surface of the sun baked desert averages around 150 degrees but 18 inches down the temperature is only 60 degrees. PART E: WRITING (15pts)I. Rewrite each of the following sentences, beginning as shown, so that the meaning stays the same. Write the answer on your answer sheet.(5 pts)