To get your family working and learning together~ and also help some beautiful insects in spring一try a backyard butterfly garden. With just a little planning, you can create an attractive habitat for butterflies.

The biggest problem facing butterflies is destruction of habitat. Even if your garden offers just a few butterfly-friendly flowers in pots or containers, it can help the insects' population, just like chicken soup for a cold.

Choose special plants on which butterflies feed. Wherever you are, simple flowers such as daisies and violets can serve as butterfly-friendly snacking spots. Some milkweeds can be espe­cially tasty to some butterflies. They provide a place for them to stop, too.

Understand that caterpillars(毛毛蟲），the butterflies' babies, are going to eat the plants in the garden, including some vegetables you may have planned to serve at your dinner table. However, you'll be rewarded for the sacrifice when caterpillars turn into flying butterflies.

Avoid using pesticides(殺蟲劑) on vegetable gardens for the sake of butterflies. Put tomato leaves overnight in water, and then spray the solution onto plants as an effective and natural pesti­cide that won't harm butterflies.

Butterfly gardening can be budget-friendly, too. Don't overlook smaller, less costly flowers that will attract tiny but lovely butterflies. Plants native to your region are most beneficial to the environment and require less maintenance.

Butterflies enjoy being exposed to the sun. Put flat rocks near feeding spots for them to rest. While butterflies can get most water they need from feeding, many like gathering around wet places. Simply create a damp area of ground which butterflies can easily see, and where they are sheltered from the wind.

Don't be disappointed if you don't draw a lot of butterflies immediately. Just keep at it, and they'll find your yard.

66. What's the main idea of the passage?

A. Ways butterflies set up their habitat in spring.

B. An advertisement promoting butterflies to gardeners.

C. Approaches to feeding butterflies at low cost.

D. Advice on creating a butterfly-friendly garden.

67.  The reason for choosing special flowers and milkweeds is that they _______

A. provide butterflies with their food

B. serve as a spot to rest for butterflies

C. harvest vegetables for dinner table

D. taste delicious to some caterpillars

68.  The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 suggests that _______

A. butterflies always live on caterpillars

B. keeping a butterfly garden makes no sense

C. it's worthwhile to keep a butterfly garden

D. caterpillars may eat some butterflies

69.  The underlined word "solution" in the fifth paragraph refers to _______

A. solid chemical from the tomato leaves

B. liquid used to kill the harmful insects

C. a method used to solve a problem

D. a device used to catch butterflies

70.  According to the passage, _______.

A. cheaper wild flowers should be avoided

B. a butterfly garden can be planned in a cheap way

C. native plants are usually expensive to keep

D. having a butterfly garden must be very costly

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