Текст вопроса
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:
|
0 |
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) with chimpanzees, according to new research.
Chimpanzees in the wild (2) to snack on termites, and youngsters learn to fish for them by poking long sticks and other (3) tools into the mounds that large groups of termites build. Researchers found that (4) 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) 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) circles.‘ Dr. Lansdorf and colleagues are studying chimpanzees at the zoo with a new, (7) created termite mound, filled with mustard (8) than termites. On the first day, adult females were getting at the mustard and a young female watched carefully and began to (9) the skills. Two young males did not do as well as the females - one simply sat next to his mother and tried to (10) some mustard from her, Dr. Lansdorf said. The behaviour of both sexes may seem (11) to many parents, she said, adding, ‘The sex differences we found in the chimps are (12) to some of the findings from human child development research.‘