试题正文
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) 正确
正确答案：case
得分 1.00/1.00 分 with chimpanzees, according to new research.
Chimpanzees in the
wild (2) 正确
正确答案：like
得分 1.00/1.00 分 to snack on termites, and youngsters learn to fish
for them by poking long sticks and other (3) 正确
正确答案：similar
得分 1.00/1.00 分 tools into the mounds that large groups of termites
build. Researchers found that (4) 正确
正确答案：on
得分 1.00/1.00 分 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) 正确
正确答案：typical
得分 1.00/1.00 分 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) 正确
正确答案：in
得分 1.00/1.00 分 circles.‘ Dr. Lansdorf and colleagues are studying chimpanzees
at the zoo with a new, (7) 正确
正确答案：specially
得分 1.00/1.00 分 created termite mound, filled with mustard (8) 正确
正确答案：rather
得分 1.00/1.00 分 than termites. On the first day, adult females were
getting at the mustard and a young female watched carefully and began to (9) 正确
正确答案：pick up
得分 1.00/1.00 分 the skills. Two young males did not do as well as the females - one
simply sat next to his mother and tried to (10) 正确
正确答案：steal
得分 1.00/1.00 分 some mustard from her, Dr. Lansdorf said. The
behaviour of both sexes may seem (11) 正确
正确答案：familiar
得分 1.00/1.00 分 to many parents, she said, adding, ‘The sex
differences we found in the chimps are (12) 正确
正确答案：identical
得分 1.00/1.00 分 to some of the findings from human child development
research.‘