Confessions of an annoying Mosquito
If you’re reading my confessions (自白), congratulations! You’ll have a safe and healthy summer.
We love when you work up a sweat. It’s really the carbon dioxide you breathe out that makes us beeline to ward you, not the fragrance of your “sweet blood.”
Love beer? So do some of us. They can tell when you’ve been drinking because your skin chemistry changes, and it attracts them
Pregnant? Yum. If you’re having a baby, you emit more carbon dioxide and your belly has a higher temperature, drawing some of us right to you. Sorry, baby.
Hate getting bitten up? Blame the ladies. Males do not eat human blood: They get all their nutrition from plants. After we have a blood meal, we can lay anywhere from 100 to 400 eggs
Smelly feet are simply delicious. Scientists have shown we find your toes ten times more inviting than Limburger cheese.
If your home’s landscaping is well tended, we won’t like it as much. We like to hang out in thick, overgrown vegetation. The darker and more damp, the better. And puddles (水沟) of smelly water is where we like to lay our eggs.
Got those CO2-emitting traps in your yard? Great! You may think you’re outsmarting us with these devices, which emit carbon dioxide to lure (引诱) us into a trap. But they may attract more of us than they are able to trap, increasing our presence in your yard.
When it comes to West Nile, end-of-summer bites may do more harm. It’s simple logic: We bite birds with West Nile virus; then we bite humans and spread it. By summer’s end, we’ve had more chances to bite infected birds.
【小题1】What can we know from the confessions?| A．Mosquitoes love smelly toes most. |
| B．All the mosquitoes suck drinking people. |
| C．The mosquito making the confessions is female. |
| D．Mosquito bites in early summer are more harmful. |
| A．A woman who is expecting. | B．A yard with traps emitting oxygen. |
| C．A man who has just finished jogging. | D．A house surrounded with smelly puddles. |
| A．Amusing. | B．Serious. | C．Sad. | D．Proud. |
