Animals like the lion are known as carnivorous (meat-eating) animals. They feed on smaller animals. But many other animals eat grass or plants. They are called herbivorous (plant-eating) animals.
You may be surprised to learn that there are carnivorous plants as well as carnivorous animals. Plants that grow in poor soil need other food. They trap (catch by a trick) small insects (昆虫) and take their bodies as food.
The pitcher plant (猪笼草) is a common carnivorous plant. This plant has a clever trap like a pitcher or jar. It even has a lid to keep out of the rain. The mouth of the pitcher is covered with something sweet like honeydew(蜜露). Insects come to the plant to feed on the honeydew. When they have eaten all that is round the mouth, they go into the pitcher to look for more. There is more honeydew deep in the pitcher and they go down to feed on it. The inner wall of the pitcher is covered with fine hairs. These hairs point downwards so that the insects cannot climb out of the pitcher. They are trapped in it. They die there, and their bodies are taken as food by the plant.
小题1:Animals are divided into two kinds.
A．carnivorous animals and meat-eating animals
B．herbivorous animals and plant-eating animals
C．carnivorous animals and herbivorous animals
D．meat animals and plant animals小题2:Which of the following is NOT true?
A．Tigers, lions and other meat-eating animals are called carnivorous animals.
B．Zebras, elephants and common farm animals are known as herbivorous animals.
C．All plants get food only from the soil.
D．It is something like honeydew in the pitcher that insects come to food on.小题3:From this passage, we can mainly learn that .
A．Not all plants are carnivorous
B．All plants are herbivorous
C．Not all animals are carnivorous
D．Carnivorous plants can also be found小题4:The text mainly talks about ___________________.
A．carnivorous animals
B．herbivorous animals
C．small insects
D．pitcher plants小题5:What kind of magazine can we find the text?
A．Biology
B．Geography
C．Physics
D．Chemistry
