TOEFL Mock Test 89: Reading Passages

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1.  What is the most distinctive feature that splits a moth from a butterfly? 

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3. BUTTERFLY AND MOTH (1) Butterflies and moths look very much alike. The best way to tell them apart is to examine their antennae, or fellers. Butterfly antennae are slender and the ends are rounded into little clubs or knobs. Moth antennae lack these knobs. Many of them look like tiny feathers, and some are threadlike.   (2) Most butterflies fly and feed during the daytime. Moths fly at night. Butterflies rest with their wings held upright over their backs, and moths with their wings outspread. These are not safe rules to follow, however, for some moths are lovers of sunshine and some fold their wings.  The honors for beautiful coloration are about evenly divided. The pale green luna moth and the right reddish born cecropia moth are as handsome as any of their gay cousins.  Certain colors, however, and the iridescent shimmer come from the fine ridges on the scales. The ridges break up the light into various colors of the spectrum.      (3) Different kinds of butterflies and moths live throughout the world-in temperate regions, high in snowy mountains, in deserts, and in hot, steamy jungles. They vary in size from the great Atlas moth of India to the Golden Pygmy of Great Britain.  Like all insects, the butterflies and moths have three pairs of legs and a body that is divided into three sections-head, thorax, and the abdomen.    (4) These insects feed on the nectar of flowers and on the other plant liquids. The mouth is a long slender suckling tube. When it is not in uses, it is coiled up like a delicate watch spring. By uncoiling the tube, the insect probes deep into the flowers and sucks up the nectar. Some kinds of insects have spines on the tube that tear the plant tissues of ripe fruits and start the juices flowing. Certain kinds have imperfectly developed mouth parts and do not feed at all. Soon after they become adult insects they mate, lay their eggs and then die.  Source: Compton's Encyclopedia     Volume 16  Question: The word "iridescent" in the passage is closest in meaning to

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4. The word they in the passage is referring to 

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