2013年高考英语二轮复习阅读理解训练8
阅读理解
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
I couldn’t believe my eyes. There, right in front of me, was a small piece of wood eating a green leaf. I looked again. It was still eating the leaf. Was I seeing things? Had the hot sun gotten to me? After all, it was summer in Costa Rica, a country in Central America.
I paused, wiping sweat from my eyes. Then I moved the wood with my finger. It stopped. It looked up at me with big triangular eyes. Surprise! It was a mantid, a kind of insect, instead of a piece of wood.
The mantid was hanging upside down on a branch. Its wings made it look like a piece of tree bark. Then I
