Buddhism advocates "equality of all beings" and exhorts us to be kind to all beings in the world. Zhuangzi said in "The Getaway": "The fungus does not know obscurity, and the cockroach does not know spring and autumn." It means that the fungus born in the morning dies before night, so it does not know night and dawn; the cicada is born in spring and dies in summer or in summer and autumn, so it does not know spring and autumn. The reason why Buddhism advocates "equality of all beings" may also be because all sentient beings are actually born uneven! Some have a long lifespan, some have a short lifespan. The great lover cherishes every living being, and is full of sincere love for every living being. Fabre is one of the great men!
Fabre (1823~1915) was a famous French entomologist, animal behaviorist, great naturalist and literary scholar. He was born into a family of poor peasants in the village of Saint-León in the Avelon department of southern France. After graduating from secondary school, he worked as a worker, but the studious Fabre seized every opportunity to study on his own, and eventually entered the normal school of Avignon in the vogueluz province, and after graduation, he found a position as a teacher, and began a career as a secondary school teacher for more than 20 years. But while trying to teach, he used his spare time to tirelessly record the observation of animals and plants, determined to be a person who wrote the history of insects.
At the age of 30, Fabre earned a bachelor's degree in natural sciences by self-study. Another year later, Fabre received a doctorate in natural sciences. In the same year, he published a long-term accumulation in the Annals of Natural Sciences, the Observations on the Customs of the Knotweed Mud Wasps. He received special attention from Darwin, calling him an "unparalleled observer". In 1875, Fabre decided to stay away from the hustle and bustle of the city and concentrate on his entomological research. He led his family to the small town of Selingnan in the provence countryside, and after four years of hard work, in 1879, he finally compiled more than 20 years of observations into the first volume of "Insects" and published it.
In 1880, Fabre used a small sum of money to buy an old house near the town that sat on a wasteland. He gave the dwelling a funny nickname, the Desert Stone Garden. After that, Fabre guarded the beloved "Desert Stone Garden", and year after year, tirelessly engaged in entomological research, and collected the fruits of his labor into a volume of "Insects". In 1910, the tenth volume of Insects was published, and Fabre was 86 years old. The French literary community, with the title of "Virgil of the Insect World", recommended him as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Unfortunately, before the Nobel committee members could make a final decision, the news of Fabre's death came.
On October 11, 1915, the "giant who played the vibrato of human destiny with insects as the piano" passed away.
Students! Teacher Luo Li carefully selected several multiple choice questions for everyone in the "Insect Record" with a trembling hand, hoping that everyone would pick up the book with reverence, read it, and do the following exercises again and again:
1. One of the following statements that is incorrect is ( )
A. Fabre's little bugs, one by one, come alive, lifelike, full of spirituality, let people read it deeply cute, even those who do not like dung-eating insects find it interesting.
B. "Insects" can be called a huge work, which can be regarded as a popular science work of entomology or a literary masterpiece depicting insects, so Fabre is called an entomologist and a great naturalist.
C. Fabre was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book in his later years.
D. "Insects" was published from 1879 to 1907, and later, it was published in the form of an anthology, named "The Habits of Insects", "The Life of Insects", and "Insect Walking", which were well received by readers.
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Answer: B
Analysis: Fabre is known as the Great Naturalist, also known as the Literary Scholar.
2. Cicadas need a piece of mud ( ) in order to drill into it.
A. Wet
B. Fluffy
C. Drying
D. Hard
Answer: D
Analysis: Because the larvae of cicadas have sharp tools and can penetrate sediment and clay if necessary, they prefer the hardest places. Hence the choice of D.
3. One of the following statements that is incorrect is ( )
A. The mantis's waist is unusually long and powerful, and its function is to extend the wolf clip forward, not to sit and wait for death, but to catch the prey.
B. The inside of the mantis's waist is decorated with a beautiful white dot with a black spot in the center, and several rows of fine pearl dots around the dot as a foil.
C. The mantis's thighs are longer, like a flat spindle, and there are two rows of sharp tooth spines on the inside of the front half. Inside the row there were twelve tooth spines of the same length, long black and short green. This long and short tooth stabs each other, increasing the meshing point and making the sharp tool sharper and more effective.
D. The outer thigh of the praying mantis is much simpler, with only four tooth spines. There are three longest at the ends of the two rows of spines. In short, the mantis's thigh is a double row of parallel bladed hacksaws, separated by a thin groove, and the calf can be flexed into it.
Analysis: The inside of the mantis's waist is decorated with a beautiful black dot with white spots in the center. Just the opposite, so choose B
4. One of the following statements that is incorrect is ( )
A. When the grey locust larvae shed their shells, the back is exposed from the crack, soft, pale, slightly gray. The back was slowly arching, getting bigger and bigger, and finally the full arch came out.
B. After the gray locust larvae shed their shells, the shell is left in place and intact, but the two glass-like eyes are gone, and they look very strange;
C. After the gray locust larvae shed their shells, the cover of the tentacles did not have a wrinkle or any abnormality, and it was in a natural state, hanging on this lifeless face that had become translucent.
D. When the gray locust larvae are dehulled, the tentacles will encounter a little resistance when they drill out of the coat, so although the coat is not flipped over, it will be a little deformed.
Analysis: When the gray locust larvae are dehulled, the tentacles do not encounter any resistance when they drill out of the coat, so the coat is not flipped over and there is no deformation. Hence the choice of D
5. One of the following statements that is incorrect is ( )
A. After observation, the author found that the green grasshopper is an insect-eating guy, especially likes to eat insects with strong armor protection;
B. The green grasshopper is an omnivorous insect, especially likes meat, but also knows that the meat is too high in calories, need to be adjusted with vegetarian food, after eating meat and drinking blood, but also to some fruit or something;
C. Green grasshoppers sometimes have no fruit, and it is also possible to eat some grass;
D. Green grasshoppers also have the phenomenon of cannibalism, they often take their own love enemies, but also swallow their own lovers.
Answer: A
Analysis: The green grasshopper is a guy who loves insects, especially likes to eat insects without the protection of hard armor, so choose A
6. One of the following statements that is incorrect is ( )
A. These large peacock butterflies came to rescue female butterflies who were locked up in the laboratory by the author;
B. The forty or so male peacock butterflies that flew into the laboratory were actually here to court;
C. The male large peacock butterflies have come one after another, which can only mean that they are here to court, but it is confusing whether they find the target through taste or smell is still unknown;
D. What information organ does the great peacock butterfly rely on during the night pilgrimage during the estrus period? People suspect it depends on their tentacles.
Analysis: These large peacock butterflies that have come to mate with female butterflies, not to rescue, so choose A
7. One of the following statements that is incorrect is ( )
A. Fabre's two cocoons hatched a female butterfly for Fabre a few days apart, allowing Fabre to repeat and enrich his experiments.
B. In a tightly covered box, the air cannot circulate, and the male small broad-striped butterfly is completely unable to know the female small broad-striped butterfly;
C. Even if the closed box is placed in a very conspicuous place on the window, not a single male butterfly flies;
D. Fabre took the same approach as the experiment with the large peacock butterfly, using gasoline, lavender flavor and a few sulfide boxes containing rotten eggs to see if the male small broad-striped butterfly could get lost.
Analysis: Fabre's experimental method of the big peacock butterfly is to confuse the male big peacock butterfly with the taste of camphor, without using gasoline. Hence the choice of D
8. ( ) At the end of the month, when the pea pods become multi-knotted under the impetus of the grain, reaching or approaching maturity, the task of the pea elephant mother is completed.
A. May
B. July
C. April
D. June
Analysis: The season when peas reach or are close to maturity is the end of May, so choose A
9. One of the following statements that is incorrect is ( )
A. The male golden step armor is strong and strong, can fight, and must have the upper hand, but this fool allows his opponent to bite his own ass unscrupulously.
B. The male golden step armor seems to be an irrepressible disgust that prevents it from turning defensive into attack, and also bites the female golden step armor that is biting itself.
C. Jin Bujia's marriage custom resembles the marriage custom of the Languedoc scorpion and the praying mantis, and the male mantis, even if he is sometimes bitten, still spares no effort to continue his unfinished business, and finally is eaten bite by bite without any resistance. This is the custom of marriage, and the male must not complain about it.
The male golden beetles in D. Fabre's cage, the last one left, are the victims of the female partner who is already satisfied with the mating tail. For four months, from May to September, males and females were paired every day, and massacres were staged every day.
Analysis: Fabre's experimental time is from April to August, not May to September, the time expression is wrong, so choose D
10. One of the following statements that is incorrect is ( )
A. The small cricket that has just come out of its shell is gray, almost white, and just came out and began to arch the earth with a large jaw; its size is very small, no larger than a fleas;
B. After 12 hours, its body color changed, becoming a beautiful little black cricket, and the dark color can compete with an adult cricket;
C. Newborn crickets are often eaten by small gray geckos and ants, and Fabre's attitude towards ants is disgusted, calling them "damn evil worms" and "doing bad things".
D. Crickets grow up have no place to live, and a dead leaf and a brick tile are enough to shelter from the wind and rain, like the tent of a wandering people who do not consider where to rest.
Analysis: After 24 hours of the small cricket that just came out of the shell, its body color changed and became a beautiful little black cricket; not 12 hours, so B was chosen
11. When the scarab encounters a slope when carrying the dung ball, it often rolls down, but it never rolls along the bottom of the ditch or looks for a gentle slope to roll, it has to roll along the steep slope of its choice to roll the huge dung ball. This feature of it is likened by Fabre to a tyrant ( )
A. Julius Caesar
B. Nero
C. Hitchyfus
D. Qin Shi Huang
Answer: C
Analysis: Hitchyfus was a tyrant in Greek mythology, punished after death, in hell to move the boulder to the mountain, almost to the top of the mountain, the boulder rolled down again, he had to push endlessly, so he chose C.
12. One of the following statements that is incorrect is ( )
A. The Spanish dung beetle dragged the food backwards and disappeared into the ground. In less than two minutes, it climbed to the ground again, still cautiously, probing its surroundings with its unfolded antennal flaps before stepping out of the threshold.
B. In the cave where the Spanish dung beetle was about to lay its eggs in Fabre's experiment, like the cave in the wild, it was a spacious hall with uneven roofs, with low roofs, but almost flat ground. In the corner of the hall, there was a round hole open, like the mouth of a bottle. But it was the Taiping Gate, leading to a tunnel that went up to the ground.
C. The Burrow that the Spanish dung beetle was dug up just to fill its stomach, neither stylistic nor sturdy. But the houses it built to lay eggs are large and beautiful;
D. Fabre's fondness for the Spanish dung beetle is far less than that of the scarab, as can be seen from the attitude of the writing;
Analysis: Fabre's love for Spanish dung beetles is the same as that of scarabs, but it points out their advantages and disadvantages in comparing their living habits, and does not contain personal preference tendencies. Hence the choice of D
13. One of the following statements that is incorrect is ( )
A. Fabre used a knife to pick out the gourd-shaped dung ball of the Southern Cuisine Dung Worm, the largest of which was four centimeters thick, with a round nucleus embedded in the middle, filling the holes in the inner wall, but not sticking to the inner wall, so it could be shaken freely, so that the sound could be heard by shaking it before it was cut;
B. The dung balls of the Southern Cuisine Dung Worm are no different from the shell in color or appearance; however, when Fabre smashes the kernel and carefully examines the debris, he finds some broken bones, velvet flocculents, skin slices, and fine pieces of flesh, all of which are submerged in a chocolate-like earthy paste;
C. Fabre sifted through the paste in the core of the dung ball of the Southern Gourmet Dung Worm under a magnifying glass, removed the debris of the corpse, and roasted it on a charcoal fire, which immediately became black, the surface layer was covered with a layer of bulging light, and emitted a choking smoke, and it was easy to smell the smell of burnt animal flesh. This nucleus was completely soaked with the pus and blood of the carrion.
D. If the shell of the dung ball of the Southern Cuisine Dung Worm is also roasted on a charcoal fire, it will also turn black, but the degree of blackness is not as deep as the core.
Analysis: Fabre used a knife to pick out the gourd-shaped dung balls of the Southern Cuisine dung worm, the largest of which was two centimeters thick, not four centimeters, so choose A
14. The back of both the dung dung golden turtle and the hypocritical dung golden turtle are
( ) color.
A. Red
B. Golden green
C. Golden yellow
D. Ink black
Analysis: The back of the dung dung golden turtle and the hypocritical dung golden turtle are ink black, not very beautiful, so choose D
15. Tunnel bees start collecting honey in the month ( ).
A. April
B. May
C. July
Analysis: Most of the flowers bloom in May, so the honey harvesting period of tunnel bees is also May, so choose B
16. Compared with the black scorpion, the Languedoc scorpion can be described as a giant, reaching a length of ( ) cm when fully developed.
A. Eighty-nine
B. Seven eight
C. Xioii3
D. Eleven-two
Analysis: The languedoc scorpion observed by the author is not more than ten centimeters in maximum, so choose A