“Birds are not as loyal to their partners as you might think, with divorce, child abandonment and remarriage a common part of birds’ life,” a new book has shown. Author and biology professor Bridge Stutchbury, dispels the love-bird belief that birds pair up for life. “In terms of the top 10 beliefs about birds, the lasting pair bonds that we think about, do occur in some birds, but in most of the little songbirds that we studied, no,” the professor from York University in Toronto said. The divorce rate among greater flamingos is 99 percent.
Stutchbury’s book, The Private Lives of Birds, based on 20 years of research from radio filming and DNA testing shows male Acadian flycatchers fertilize(使受孕) females far away from their home nests, “ The main discovery is that so many birds do divorce for what humans would describe as selfish reasons,” Professor Stutchbury said. She noted that females may seek out males that are more colorful and better singers, or look to “step up in the world” and move to areas that are safer and have more food. “Females are looking for the highest quality male so that their children will be of high quality,” she added.
Professor Stutchbury said shorter summers may drive females to leave their nests before their young are fully grown up so they can quickly find new mates（配偶） and lay more eggs, leaving the males to feed the hungry chicks on their own.
Males can double their success in producing children by fertilizing neighboring females, but only “mates” care for the young, and some are none the wiser. “  They can’t tell when the egg comes out and whether it’s theirs or not,” She said. “They have no way to know.”
Divorce is surprisingly common among birds, and most live with one partner for only a few months or years. Divorce rates range from 99 percent in the greater flamingo to zero in the wandering albatross(信天翁).
【小題1】What does the underline word “dispels” mean?

A．States B．Doubts C．Confirms D．Removes
【小題2】The book The Private Lives of Birds_____.
A．shows the kind of male birds females seek out.
B．indicates the wandering albatross is the most faithful.
C．is based on Professor Stutchbury’s 20 years’ research.
D．suggests that female birds select males near their home.
【小題3】According to the passage, we can infer that________.
A．young birds’ quality depends on their feather.
B．some male birds care for others’ young as their own.
C．female birds go to find males as soon as autumn comes.
D．female birds are responsible for feeding the hungry babies.
【小題4】 What is the passage mainly about?
A．A book about love-birds.
B．Birds’ living habits and love life
C．The fact that birds don’t love their mates forever.
D．The factors that influence birds to look for another mate.


【小題1】D
【小題2】A
【小題3】B
【小題4】C

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