問題詳情

II. Cloze Test: 20% 
(A)Do animals think? "Of course theydo," answers Marc Hauser, a Harvard professor of psychology."How could they not think and __(16)__survive in the world?" Hauserhas been studying animal cognition since 1980. He now believes that animals conceivethe world __(17)__similar to humans, especially species like chimpanzees who live arich social life. Inone experiment, a chimpanzee named Dandy was able to __(18)__his friends and got a grapefruit to eat. At first, he pretended that he did notknow the location of the grapefruit,__(19)__actually he did see the scientists bury it in the sand. Dandy waited until the other chimps fellasleep before he went to dig up the grapefruit and enjoy it alone.      Otheranimals too show signs of intelligence. A __(20)__female heron in Japan, came up with a way to attract the minnows forher lunch. Amale gorilla became upset when its baby __(21)__sick and taken away with its mother. The male gorilla, who seemed to have fallen in love, would __[!--empirenews.page--](22)__eat nor sleep. Anoctopus provides another unusual instance of animal behavior. After observing how another octopusopened a jar, the first octopus was able to open the jar by itself. Untilrecently, many scientists __(23)__that only mammals could learn by watching others.     Storieslike these have __(24)__many questions about animals and the way they think and behave. It seems that animals can do __(25)__just process information like robots. Perhaps their behavior is the result of more than just instinct andmemorized rules. Based on theseobservations, more scientists are concluding that animals really canthink. Whatdo you think?
16.
(A) manage to
(B) be capable of
(C) be about to
(D) but also

參考答案

答案:A
難度:適中0.5
統計:A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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