高考英语二轮九十天强化训练：阅读理解57
阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Almost anyone who has read a travel brochure about Africa has heard of elephants getting drunk from the fruit of the marula tree. It is said that elephants can get drunk by eating the fermented (发酵) fruit rotting on the ground. Books have even been written to prove the truth of the phenomenon.
ButastudypublishedinthejournalPhysiologicalandBiochemicalZoologytellsaverydifferentstory.
SteveMorris, abiologistattheUniversityofBristolinEnglandandanauthorofthestudy, saysthereisnothinginthebiologyofeithertheAfricanelephantorthemarulafruittosupportthestories. Morrissays, “ peoplejustwanttobelieveindrunkenelephants.”
Themarulatree, amemberofthesamefamilyasthemango, growswidelyinAfrica. Itssweet, yellowfruitisusedformakingjam, wineandbeer. “Thefirstmistakeofthedrunken-elephanttheoryisthatit’sunlikelythatanelephantwouldeatthefruitifitwererotten, ” Morrissays. “Elephantseatthefruitrightoffthetree, notwhenit’srottenontheground, ” heexplains.
Otherexpertsaddthatifanelephantweretoeatthefruitontheground, itwouldn’twaitforthefruittoferment. MichelleGadd, anAfricanwildlifespecialist, saysthatelephantsandmanyotheranimals, includingbirdsandmonkeys, aretoofondofmarulafruittoletitrot.
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