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:
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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) Верно
Правильный ответ: case
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Chimpanzees in the
wild (2) Неверно
Правильный ответ: like
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for them by poking long sticks and other (3) Неверно
Правильный ответ: similar
Баллов: 0,00 из 1,00 tools into the mounds that large groups of termites
build. Researchers found that (4) Неверно
Правильный ответ: on
Баллов: 0,00 из 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) Неверно
Правильный ответ: typical
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mound. ‘She's really focusing on termite fishing and he's spinning himself round (6) Верно
Правильный ответ: in
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at the zoo with a new, (7) Верно
Правильный ответ: specially
Баллов: 1,00 из 1,00 created termite mound, filled with mustard (8) Верно
Правильный ответ: rather
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getting at the mustard and a young female watched carefully and began to (9) Неверно
Правильный ответ: pick up
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simply sat next to his mother and tried to (10) Неверно
Правильный ответ: steal
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behaviour of both sexes may seem (11) Верно
Правильный ответ: familiar
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differences we found in the chimps are (12) Верно
Правильный ответ: identical
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research.‘