职称英语考试:理工类复习资料(三)
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Young Female Chimps2 Outlearn Their Brothers
问题1. Why do young female chimps learn faster than young male chimps at fishing for termites4?
1.Young female chimps are faster and better learners than young male chimps, suggests a new study, echoing differences seen in human girls and boys.
2.While young male chimps pass their time playing, young female chimps carefully study their mothers. As a result, they learn how to fish for tasty termite3(白蚁) snacks over two years before the boys.
A.Because young female chimps don't play with their bothers.
B.Because young female chimps begin to study their mothers earlier.
C.Because young male chimps never learn to fish for termites.
D.Because young male chimps are not interested in termites.
问题2.What are the tools with which chimps fish for termites?
3.Elizabeth Lonsdorf, now at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, US, and colleagues at the University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, spent four years, watching how young chimpanzees in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania learned “cultural behavior”.
4.The sex differences in learning behavior were “consistent and strikingly apparent”, says the team. The researchers point out that similar differences are seen in human children with regard to skills such as writing. “A sex-based learning difference may therefore date back at least to the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans,” they write in the journal Nature.
5.Chimps make flexible tools from vegetation and then insert them into termite mounds6(土堆,土丘), extract them and then munch(大口咀嚼)the termites clinging onto the tool. The researchers used video cameras to record this feeding behavior and found that each chimp1 mother had her own technique, such as how she used tools of different lengths.
A.Tree branches
B.Vegetables.
(Vegetations=plants)(此题课本中的答案出现错误,如果选项B正确,那么Vegetables 就应当改为Vegetations)
C.Fruits
D.Grass
问题3.Which of the following is true about chimps fishing for termites according to paragraph 6?
6.Analysis of the six infants whose ages were known showed that girl chimps were an average of 31 months old when they succeeded in fishing out their termites, where the boy chimps were aged7 58 months on average. Females were also more skillful at getting out more termites with every dip and used techniques similar to their mothers while males did not.
A.Males often compete with females in fishing for termites.
B.Males could get out more termites with every dip.
C.Females could get out more termites with every dip.
D.Males are good at mastering techniques for fishing for termites.
问题4.How did the researchers explain the fact that boy chimps spent more time on playing?
7.Instead of studying their mothers, the boy chimps spent a significantly greater amount of time frolicking(嬉戏,嬉闹)around the termite mound5. Behaviors such as playing or swinging might help the male infants later in life when typically male activities like hunting or fighting for dominance become important, suggest the researchers.
A.They like hunting.
B.They enjoy fighting.
C.It helps them to stay fit. (保持健康)
D.It will make them good fighters and hunters in the future.
问题5.According to the last paragraph, which of the following is NOT true?
8.Lonsdorf adds that there are just two main sources of animal protein for chimps — the termites or colobus monkeys(疣猴). “Mature males often hunt monkeys up trees, but females are almost always either pregnant or burdened with a clinging infant. This makes hunting difficult,” she says. “Adult females spend more time fishing for termites than males.” So becoming proficient8 at(熟练地干…)termite fishing could mean adult females eat better, “They can watch their offspring at the same time. The young of both sexes seem to pursue activities related to their adult sex roles at a very young age.”
A.Adult chimps hunt monkeys while young chimps fish for termites.
B.The main source of animal protein for male chimps is colobus monkeys.
C.The main source of animal protein for male chimps is termites.
D.Female chimps fish for termites while watching their children.
本题印证了:一般说来,阅读理解的出题顺序和文章的叙述顺序是一致的。例如,在上面的阅读理解试题中,第一题答案出现在第2段,第二题的答案出现第5段,第三题的答案出现在第6段,第四题的答案出现在第7段,第五题的答案出现在第8段。


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1 chimp WXGza     
n.黑猩猩
参考例句:
  • In fact,the color of gorilla and chimp are light-color.其实大猩猩和黑猩猩的肤色是较为浅的。
  • The chimp is the champ.猩猩是冠军。
2 chimps 2a09048610e52de775e2fe426c063f06     
(非洲)黑猩猩( chimp的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Chimps are too scarce, and too nearly human, to be routinely slaughtered for spare parts. 黑猩猩又太少,也太接近于人类,不可以作为人器官备用件说杀就杀。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
  • And as nonprimates, they provoke fewer ethical and safety-related concerns than chimps or baboons. 而且作为非灵长类,就不会产生像用黑猩猩或狒狒那样的伦理和安全方面的顾虑。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
3 termite npTwE     
n.白蚁
参考例句:
  • The termite control was also probed into further in this text.本文还进一步探讨了白蚁的防治方法。
  • Termite often destroys wood.白蚁经常破坏树木。
4 termites 8ee357110f82dc8b267190e430924662     
n.白蚁( termite的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Termites are principally tropical in distribution. 白蚁主要分布在热带地区。 来自辞典例句
  • This spray will exterminate the termites. 这种喷剂能消灭白蚁。 来自辞典例句
5 mound unCzhy     
n.土墩,堤,小山;v.筑堤,用土堆防卫
参考例句:
  • The explorers climbed a mound to survey the land around them.勘探者爬上土丘去勘测周围的土地。
  • The mound can be used as our screen.这个土丘可做我们的掩蔽物。
6 mounds dd943890a7780b264a2a6c1fa8d084a3     
土堆,土丘( mound的名词复数 ); 一大堆
参考例句:
  • We had mounds of tasteless rice. 我们有成堆成堆的淡而无味的米饭。
  • Ah! and there's the cemetery' - cemetery, he must have meant. 'You see the mounds? 啊,这就是同墓,”——我想他要说的一定是公墓,“看到那些土墩了吗?
7 aged 6zWzdI     
adj.年老的,陈年的
参考例句:
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
8 proficient Q1EzU     
adj.熟练的,精通的;n.能手,专家
参考例句:
  • She is proficient at swimming.她精通游泳。
  • I think I'm quite proficient in both written and spoken English.我认为我在英语读写方面相当熟练。
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