Task II. Read the text and decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F) .
1. The group began their work before the chimps woke up in the morning.
2. The group did not feel tired after the whole day' s work.
3. Jane wanted to work with animals in her childhood.
4. People had already known that chimps ate meat before Jane' s discovery.
5. Jane thought it was wrong to put small chimps in cages.
6. Jane did not achieve much because she was too busy studying chimps.
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The mystery of why humans are the only animals to have chins (下巴) may have been solved by scientists who suggest that it is connected to the invention of cooking.
A paper from the University of Florida tries to explain exactly why humans 一 unlike all other primates (灵长目动物) 一have chins.
A team led by Dr James Pampush collected information from more than 100 kinds of primate and compared it with historical information. Computer modelling found how the chin developed.
Random genetic change(随机的基因变化)was ruled out because the chin developed 77 times faster than the average genetic change. And the study finds no evidence that it -served a useful purpose. The research,published in the Journal of Human Evolution,suggests the chin is a by-product of another event. In this case,the event could well be the invention of cooking.
“The chin began to appear as a result of major changes six million years earlier. The arrival of cooking and softer food meant humans no longer needed big teeth and powerful jaws .and over the next two million years to 200,000 years both got smaller and the chin was bora ,” said Dr Pampush. “My guess is that it most likely happened around two million years ago when there was a jump in brain size. The changes which finally lead to the chin are directly related to cooking,and indirectly related to larger brains and bodies."
Dr Pampush's new theory goes against previous suggestions that the chin was an example of sexual selection,with attractive chins marking out men who are likely to make good mates(配偶) . The fact that both men and women have chins means the theory is unlikely.
Another theory put forward in the past said that the chin was a way to balance out the stress of chewing,but Dr Pampush also threw doubt on that idea.
1. The reason why we have chins .
A. is connected to humans’ action of chewing
B. has something to do with cooking
C. is random genetic change
D. is related to eating time
2. How did the researchers get their result?
A. By carrying out experiments. .
B. By studying scientific theories.
C. By examining the human brain.
D. By comparing recorded information.
3. Before developing chins,humans .
A. had bigger teeth
B. cooked softer food
C. had smaller jaws
D. had larger bodies
4. According to Dr Pampush,the chin most
probably appeared around .
A. 6 million years ago
B. 4 million years ago
C. 2 million years ago
D. 0.2 million years ago
5. What does the underlined part “the theory” refer to?
A. Men are likely to have more attractive chins.
B. The chin helps humans attract a mate.
C. Both men and women have chins.
D. Dr Pampush's theory.
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Since he was nine,Babar Ali has been running his own school in Bhabta,a small village in West Bengal,India,passing on to the children of poor families the knowledge he has acquired(学到) at his school during the day.
It began when children in his village asked him questions about what he learned at the 1,000-rupee-a-year school their parents could not afford.
“It started without much effort,”hesays. aThere were lots of children who had dropped out of school,or never been to school at all. They were "always asking questions about my lessons and I would repeat everything for them.
“There used to be just eight pupils,and my friends helped me with the teaching. We worked on the standard of teaching. The word spread to nearby villages,and gradually we took on more and more students."
Five years later,the school has a total of 1C teachers,all of whom are studeiits at school,and 650 pupils.
On a typical(典型的) day,Babar will rise ai 5 am,do housework,then take a bus to school in a
village three miles away. From 10 am to 4 pm,he focuses on(集中注意力于) his own studies,then he races back to his village to welcome his students at 5 pm. He teaches until 8 pm. The
teaching doesn’t make hin) tired,he says,but gives him more strength to keep up his busy life.
His parents are filled with pride. His father,Nasiruddin,was shocked when he first discovered
his son was teaching. “I couldn’ t believe it. He always rushing from place to place and I was worried it might affect his studies. So I visited his school. Seeing his dedication(奉献) to teaching cleared my doubts,he says.
In 2009,Babar was npied the “youngest headmaster in the world by BBC. From then on,his story appeared in many textbooks,and now he is regularly invited to speak at many meetings all over the world.
21. Babar started teaching the children nearby
A. because he wanted to make money to pay for his studies
B. when they went to his school to ask him questions
C. because their parents asked him to do so
D. when he was quite a young boy
22. As time went by,Babar.
A. is planning to set up more schools
B. had to ask some teachers to help him
C. gradually made his school bigger and bigger
D. had to drop out of school to teach other children
23. Why does the author describe Babar's typical day?
A. To show he works very long hours.
B;To explain why he feels tired at the end of a day.
C. To show he works much harder than other teachers.
D. To explain why he has no time to stay with his family.
24. How did Babar's father react to his teaching at first?
A. He was very surprised.
B. He was proud of Babar.
C. He had doubts about Babar's ability.
D. He was unhappy about Babar's decision.
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言 错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(A) .并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\ ) 划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起) 不计分。
Last winter holiday I go to the mountains with my cousins. None of us had ever skied before so we had
been looking forward it for months. When we arrived at the airports,it started to snow and we were really
exciting. But when we got off the plane in the mountains,there were not any snow at all. Everyone here said it
was too warm for snow. We went to the bed feeling sadly that we wouldn' t be able to ski. But when they got
up the next morning and looked out of the window,we realized that it had been snowed all night and we would
be able to ski after all.
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Hi Cathy,
Greetings from Nepal!I'm sending this from an Internet cafe in a small town north of Kathmandu.
The town itself isn’t very interesting,but everything around it 1. (is / are) beautiful I can see the Himalayas through the cafe window!
The courses here are great,although maths2. (is / are) certainly not my strong point. A lot of Nepal5 population lives in the mountainous parts of the country south of the Himalayas, and most of these people 3. (depend /depends) on growing crops and keeping animals. The standard of living in Kathmandu and the other cities 4. (have / has) risen a lot recently, and the number of people likely to move into the cities 5. (is / are) expected to increase. It's a real problem here. The Himalayan Times,the local English-language newspaper,6. (has /have) just published a survey showing that most young people would stay in their home villages if jobs were available.
Hope all 7. (is / are) well with you.I'llsend more news when I can.
Nazim
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