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SectionⅡIReading Comprehension
Part ADirections:Read the following four texts.Answer the quest ons below each text by choosing A, BCorD.Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.( 40 points)Evybodylovesafatpyrie.Yet pleas re at your own can vans h if you lamthat a colle a guc has been given a biger one.Indeed, if he has a reputation for slack ng.you mi ht even be outraged.Such behaviour is regarded as“all too human , with theunderlying assump tn that other an i as would not be capable of this finely developedsense of grievance.But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of EmoryUniversity in At lana, Georgia, whi h has just been publ shed in Naru re, suggests that ilis all too monkey, as wll.2000人考研学子备考QQ群:130745270【免费领取更多考研电子书】The resear her sst did the behaviour of female brown capuchin monkeys.Theylook cute.They are good-natured, co-operative crea ures, and they share heir foodread iy.Above all like their female human counter pars, they tend to pay much co serattention to the value of“goods and services than males-Such characters tics make them perfect candidates for Dr.Brosnan'san dDr.dcWaal's study.The researchers spent two years teach ng their monkeys to exchange tokensfr food.Normaly, the monkeys were happy c nough to exchange pieces of roe k fors lies of cucumber.However, when two monkeys we replaced in separate but adjoiningchambers, so that each could observe what the oter was get ng in renum for is rock.their behaviour became markedly different.ie wrd of cau his, grp esse endar/goods aodmihpreabiocucumber) .So when one monkey was handed agf epe is exchang c for per token:the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber.And if onereceiedagrapewthouthavng to provide her token in exchange at al the o her ci hertossed her own token at the researcher or out of the chamber, or refused to accept theslice of cucumber.Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other chamber(withoutan actual monkey to cat it) was enough to induc c resentment in a female capuchin.emotions.In the wild, they area co-operate, group-lv ing species.Such co-operationis kely to be stable only when each animal f cels it is not being cheated.Fce lings ofrighteous indignation, it seems, are not the preserve of people alone.Refusing a lesserreward completely makes these feelings abundantly clear to other members of the group.However, whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins andhumans, or whether it stems from the common ancestor that the species had35milonyears ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.
21.In the opening paragraph, the author introduces his topic by[A] monkeys are also outraged by slack rivals[B] resenting una i mess is also monkeys'nature[A] more in l ned to weigh what they e[B] attenti e to researchers'instruct nt信公众号【无忧考资】24.Dr.Brosnan and Dr.de Waal have eventually found in their study that the monkeys25.What can we infer from the last paragraph?kill us but the doubters in sited that we didn't know for sure?That the evidence wasinconclusive, the science uncertain?That the antismoking lobby was out to destroy ourway of life and the government shouldst you t of the way?Lots of Americans boughtthat nonsense, and over three decades, some 10milion smokers went to early graves.to awaken us to the growing threat of global warming.The latest was a panel fromThe researchers suggest that capuchin monkeys, like humans, are guided by social[A] posing a contrast[B] jus ifying an assump ton[C] making a comparison[D] ex paining a phenomenon22.The stae ment“i is all too monky“(Last lne, Para gap hI) ipls that__[C] monkeys, lke humans, tend to be jealous of eachother[D] no anials other than monkeys can develop suche moins23.Female capuchin monkeys were chosen for the research most probably because theyare_ICJ aici both appe race and in pea e获取更多考研资源[D] more generous than their male companions[A] prefer grapes to cucumbers[B] can be taught to exchange things[C] will not be co-operative if feeling cheated[D] are unhappy when separated from others[A] Monkeys can be trained to develop social emotions[B] Human indignation evolved from an uncertain source.[C] Animals usually show their feelings openly as humans do.[D] Co-operation among monkeys remains stable only in the wild
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Do you remember all those years when scientists argued that smoking wouldThere are upset ing parallels today, as scient sts in one wave after another trythe National Academy of Sciences, enlisted by the WhiteHouse, to tellus that theEarth's atmosphere is def it ely warming and that the problem is largely man-madeThe clear message is that we should get moving to protect ourselves.The presidentof the National Academy, Bruce Alberts, added this keypoint in the preface to thepanel's report:“Science never has all the answers.But science does provide us wth thebest available guide to the future, and it is criti al that our nation and the world baseiprantplcsontebestdmets that sie eceanprodcconeeengtienb re灸】consequences of present actions.”获取考研Just as on smok ng, voiesnowcomefrmmnyquaers ising that the scienceabout global warming is in comp lee, that it'sOK to keep pouring fumes into the air unil
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