WHO CALLED THE APELIKE CREATURES 'SASQUATCH'

Câu 23: Who called the apelike creatures 'Sasquatch'?

A. Richard Brown

B. The five campers

C. Roger Patterson

D. The local Native Americans

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the

correct answer to each of the questions from 24 to 31.

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 pass their entire lives without a single drop.

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 are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. 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 they are

not emaciated.

Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere else in the

word. The secret of their adjustment lies in the combination of behavior and physiology. None could

survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they went out in the midday sun; many would die in a matter

of minutes. So most of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath 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.