Question

From the moment that an animal is born it has to make decisions．___1.___ The animal is, in fact, playing a very dangerous game with its environment.

___2.____ It is different from the individual learning that an animal does in the course of its own lifetime.Genetic learning is learning by a species(animals of the same kind)as a whole ,and it is achieved by selection of those members of each generation that happen to act in the right way．__3.____The more important individual experience is likely to be, the less important is genetic learning as a means of getting over the problems of the survival game.___ 4.____It is not surprising to find that very few species indeed depend wholly upon genetic learning．

In the great majority of animals, their particular ways of acting in a new environment are a compound（复合体）of individual experience added to the action patterns animals are born with．__5.____

A. It has to decide which of the things around it are for eating, and which are to be avoided.

B. That is why animals can survive．

C. The animal's life will come to an end.

D. Animals’ ability to act reasonably is believed to come partly from what we may call “genetic learning”

E. Because most animals live in ever changing environments from one generation to the next.

F. However, the role of genetic learning depends upon how similar the future environment is to the past．

G. Each generation has its own way of eating.

 

Answer 1

1.A

2.D

3.F

4.E

5.B

【解析】

试题分析：

1. 根据From the moment that an animal is born it has to make decisions．___36____ The animal is, in fact, playing a very dangerous game with its environment. 可知这里想说需要决定哪些食物能吃，哪些不能吃，选A。

2. is different from the individual learning that an animal does in the course of its own lifetime.Genetic learning is learning by a species(animals of the same kind)as a whole ,and it is achieved by selection of those members of each generation that happen to act in the right way．可知选D。

3. more important individual experience is likely to be, the less important is genetic learning as a means of getting over the problems of the survival game.故选F。

4. 根据The more important individual experience is likely to be, the less important is genetic learning as a means of getting over the problems of the survival game.____39____It is not surprising to find that very few species indeed depend wholly upon genetic learning．故选E。

5. the great majority of animals, their particular ways of acting in a new environment are a compound（复合体）of individual experience added to the action patterns animals are born with．可知这里想说那就是动物为什么能够幸存，故选B。

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