Complete the summary below using words from the box. Write your answers, A-H, in

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问题 Complete the summary below using words from the box. Write your answers, A-H, in boxes 10-13 on your answer sheet.
Though often doubted, the self-medicating behaviour of animals has been supported by an increasing amount of evidence. One piece of evidence particularly deals with【R1】______, a soil-consuming behaviour commonly found across animals species, because earth, often clay, can neutralize the【R2】______content of their diet.
Such behaviour can also be found among humans in Africa, where people purchase【R3】______at market stalls as a kind of medication to their illnesses. Another example of this is found in chimps eating leaves of often【R4】______taste but with no apparent medicinal value until its unique structure came into light.
A mineral B plants C unpleasant D toxic
E clay tablets F nutritional G geophagy H harmless [br] 【R2】

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答案 D

解析 利用顺序性原则和细节信息“clay”定位于原文第四段第一句话“The current beliefis that soil一and particularly the clay in it—helps to detoxify the defensive poisons thatsome plants produce in an attempt to prevent themselves from being eaten”,所以正确答案为D(toxic).
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