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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) Correcta
La respuesta correcta es: case
Se puntúa 1,00 sobre 1,00 with chimpanzees, according to new research.
Chimpanzees in the
wild (2) Correcta
La respuesta correcta es: like
Se puntúa 1,00 sobre 1,00 to snack on termites, and youngsters learn to fish
for them by poking long sticks and other (3) Correcta
La respuesta correcta es: similar
Se puntúa 1,00 sobre 1,00 tools into the mounds that large groups of termites
build. Researchers found that (4) Correcta
La respuesta correcta es: on
Se puntúa 1,00 sobre 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) Incorrecta
La respuesta correcta es: typical
Se puntúa 0,00 sobre 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) Correcta
La respuesta correcta es: in
Se puntúa 1,00 sobre 1,00 circles.‘ Dr. Lansdorf and colleagues are studying chimpanzees
at the zoo with a new, (7) Incorrecta
La respuesta correcta es: specially
Se puntúa 0,00 sobre 1,00 created termite mound, filled with mustard (8) Incorrecta
La respuesta correcta es: rather
Se puntúa 0,00 sobre 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) Incorrecta
La respuesta correcta es: pick up
Se puntúa 0,00 sobre 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) Correcta
La respuesta correcta es: steal
Se puntúa 1,00 sobre 1,00 some mustard from her, Dr. Lansdorf said. The
behaviour of both sexes may seem (11) Correcta
La respuesta correcta es: familiar
Se puntúa 1,00 sobre 1,00 to many parents, she said, adding, ‘The sex
differences we found in the chimps are (12) Incorrecta
La respuesta correcta es: identical
Se puntúa 0,00 sobre 1,00 to some of the findings from human child development
research.‘