Question text
She Studies while He Plays: True of Children and Chimps
For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example:
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A idea |
B conclusion |
C attention |
D thought |
Little girls watch
and learn, little boys don’t pay (0)__С__and play around. At least, this seems to be the (1) Correct
The correct answer is: case
Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 with chimpanzees, according to new research.
Chimpanzees in the
wild (2) Correct
The correct answer is: like
Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 to snack on termites, and youngsters learn to fish
for them by poking long sticks and other (3) Correct
The correct answer is: similar
Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 tools into the mounds that large groups of termites
build. Researchers found that (4) Correct
The correct answer is: on
Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 average female chimps in the Gombe National Park in
Tanzania learnt how to do termite fishing at the age of 31 months, more than two
years earlier than the males.
The females seem
to learn by watching their mothers. Researcher Dr. Elisabeth V. Lonsdorf,
director of field conservation at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, said that it
is (5) Correct
The correct answer is: typical
Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 to find that, when a young male and female are near a
mound. ‘She's really focusing on termite fishing and he's spinning himself round (6) Correct
The correct answer is: in
Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 circles.‘ Dr. Lansdorf and colleagues are studying chimpanzees
at the zoo with a new, (7) Correct
The correct answer is: specially
Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 created termite mound, filled with mustard (8) Correct
The correct answer is: rather
Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 than termites. On the first day, adult females were
getting at the mustard and a young female watched carefully and began to (9) Correct
The correct answer is: pick up
Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 the skills. Two young males did not do as well as the females - one
simply sat next to his mother and tried to (10) Correct
The correct answer is: steal
Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 some mustard from her, Dr. Lansdorf said. The
behaviour of both sexes may seem (11) Correct
The correct answer is: familiar
Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 to many parents, she said, adding, ‘The sex
differences we found in the chimps are (12) Correct
The correct answer is: identical
Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 to some of the findings from human child development
research.‘