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Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage...

Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, D, on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 36.
Birds that feed in flocks commonly retire together into roosts. The reasons for roosting communally are not always obvious, but there are some likely benefits. In winter especially, it is important for birds to keep warm at night and conserve precious food reserves. One way to do this is to find a sheltered roost. Solitary roosters shelter in dense vegetation or enter a cavity- horned larks dig holes in the ground and ptarmigan burrow into snow banks - but the effect of sheltering is magnified by several birds huddling together in the roosts, as wrens, swifts, brown creepers, bluebirds, and anis do. Body contact reduces the surface area exposed to the cold air, so the birds keep each other warm. Two kinglets huddling together were found to reduce their heat losses by a quarter, and three together saved a third of their heat.
The second possible benefit of communal roosts is that they act as "information centers". During the day, parties of birds will have spread out to forage over a very large area. When they return in the evening some will have fed well, but others may have found little to eat. Some investigators have observed that when the birds set out again next morning, those birds that did not feed well on the previous day appear to follow those that did. The behavior of common and lesser kestrels may illustrate different feeding behaviors of similar birds with different roosting habits. The common kestrel hunts vertebrate animals in a small, familiar hunting ground, whereas the very similar lesser kestrel feeds on insects over a large area. The common kestrel roosts and hunts alone, but the lesser kestrel roosts and hunts in flocks, possibly so one bird can learn from others where to find insect swarms.
Finally, there is safety in numbers at communal roosts since there will always be a few birds awake at any given moment to give the alarm. But this increased protection is partially counteracted by the fact that mass roosts attract predators and are especially vulnerable if they are on the ground. Even those in trees can be attacked by birds of prey. The birds on the edge are at greatest risk since predators find it easier to catch small birds perching at the margins of the roost.
Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as an advantage derived by birds that huddle together while sleeping?
A. Some members of the flock warn others of impending dangers.
B. Some birds in the flock function as information centers for others who are looking for food.
C. Several members of the flock care for the young.
D. Staying together provides a greater amount of heat for the whole flock.
Điều nào sau đây KHÔNG được đề cập trong đoạn văn như một lợi thế có được từ những con chim rúc vào nhau khi ngủ?
A. Một số loài chim trong đàn cảnh báo những con khác về những mối nguy hiểm sắp xảy ra.
B. Một số con trong đàn có chức năng là trung tâm thông tin cho những con khác đang tìm kiếm thức ăn.
C. Một số thành viên trong đàn chăm sóc con non.
D. Ở cùng nhau cung cấp lượng nhiệt lớn hơn cho cả đàn.
Thông tin:
+ Finally, there is safety in numbers at communal roosts since there will always be a few birds awake at any given moment to give the alarm.
(Cuối cùng, có sự an toàn về số lượng tại các chuồng chung vì sẽ luôn có một vài con chim thức dậy vào bất kỳ thời điểm nào để báo động.)
→A được đề cập
+ The second possible benefit of communal roosts is that they act as "information centers".
(Lợi ích thứ hai có thể có của các khu tập thể là chúng đóng vai trò là "trung tâm thông tin".)
→B được đề cập
+ Body contact reduces the surface area exposed to the cold air, so the birds keep each other warm.
(Sự tiếp xúc cơ thể làm giảm diện tích bề mặt tiếp xúc với không khí lạnh, vì vậy những con chim giữ ấm cho nhau.)
→D được đề cập
Đáp án C.
 

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