题目内容：

    A food chain is a simple way of explaining how each living thing gets its food. For example, a simple African food chain might consist of three parts: first, trees and bushes; second, giraffes; and third, lions. Each link in a food chain is food for the next link. Food chains always start with plants and end with animals.

Plants are at the bottom of the food chain. Scientists call them producers, because they use light energy from the sun to produce food from carbon dioxide and water through photosynthesis（光合作用）. Animals, unlike plants, can’t produce their own food. Instead, they must eat plants or other animals. This is why scientists call them consumers.

Consumer animals fall into three categories. Herbivores（食草动物）eat only plants. Carnivores（食肉动物） eat only other animals. Omnivores eat both plants and animals. In addition to producers and consumers, there are also decomposers(分解者).These organisms, such as bacteria and fungi, feed on decaying(腐烂) matter. They help the food chain by speeding up the decaying process that releases minerals back into the soil to be absorbed by plants as nutrients.

Most food chains have only four or five links in them. As you go up a food chain, the amount of energy at each level diminishes, because some of the energy is lost in the form of waste or is used up by the organism at the level. That is why it takes many plants, for example, to feed a few giraffes who in turn feed one lion.

Most animals are part of many different food chains, because they must eat more than one type of food to satisfy their energy needs. All of these interconnected food chains form a more complex structure called a food web. Humans, for example, are at the center of a very complex food web, because we tend to eat many different types of plants and animals.

1.Which of the following tells us the African food chain?

A. Trees, giraffes and lions live on one another.

B. Giraffes eat lions and lions feed on bushes.

C. Lions live on giraffes and giraffes eat trees.

D. Bushes live on lions and lions eat giraffes.

2.In the second paragraph,the author is mainly to         .

A. emphasize the importance of the plants

B. compare the plants and the animals

C. present the scientists’ different views

D. explain the producers and consumers

3.The underlined word “diminishes”（in Paragraph 4）probably means         .

A. changes B. decreases

C. disappears D. increases

4.Those that may lie in the center of the food chain are          .

A. omnivores B. decomposers

C. herbivores D. carnivores

5.What would be the best title for this passage?

A. The Types of Plants and Animals

B. The Differences among the Living Things

C. Three Categories of the Consumers

D. The Food Chain in the Natural World