According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE? A. Only monkeys and humans can have the sense of fairness in the world. B. Women will show more dissatisfaction than men when unfairly treated. C. In the wild, monkeys are never unhappy to share their food with each other. D. Monkeys can exchange cucumbers for grapes, for grapes are more attractive. 查看更多

 

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     We now think of chocolate as sweet, but once it was bitter. We think of it-as a candy, but once it was
a medicine. Today, chocolate can be a hot drink, a frozen dessert, or just a snack. Sometimes it is an
ingredient in the main course of a meal. Mexicans make a hot chocolate sauce called mole and pour it over
chicken. The Mexicans also eat chocolate with spices like chili peppers.
     Chocolate is a product of the tropical cacao tree. The beans taste so bitter that even the monkeys say
"Ugh!" and run away. Workers must first dry and then roast the beans. This removes the bitter taste.
     The word "chocolate" comes from a Mayan word. The Mayas were an ancient people who once lived
in Mexico. They valued the cacao tree. Some used the beans for money, while others crushed them to make
a drink.
     When the Spaniards came to Mexico in the sixteenth century, they started drinking cacao too. Because
the drink was strong and bitter, they thought it was a medicine. No one had the idea of adding sugar. The
Spaniards took some beans back to Europe and opened cafes. Wealthy people drank cacao and said it was
good for the digestion.
     In the 1800s, the owner of a chocolate factory in England discovered that sugar removed the bitter taste
of cacao. It quickly became a cheap and popular drink. Soon afterwards, a factory made the first solid block
of sweetened chocolate. Later on, another factory mixed milk and chocolate together. People liked the taste
of milk chocolate even better.
     Besides the chocolate candy bar, one of the most popular American snacks is the chocolate chip cookie.
Favorite desserts are chocolate cream pie and of course an ice cream sundae with hot fudge sauce.
1. It was ____ that discovered sugar could remove the bitter taste of cacao.
A. the workers in the chocolate factory
B. the Spaniards
C. the people in England
D. the owner of a chocolate factory
2. According to the passage which of the following statements is TRUE? 
A. Nobody had the idea of adding sugar into cacao until the sixteenth century.
B. The word "chocolate" comes from a Mexican word.
C. The beans taste so bitter that even the monkeys like them.
D. Workers must dry and roast the beans to remove the bitter taste.
3. The Spaniards think that cacao was a medicine because ____.
A. it was strong and bitter
B. it was good for digestion
C. it cured man' s diseases
D. it was a kind of drink for good health
4. Which is the right time order of the events regarding chocolate?
    a. Chocolate became a cheap and popular drink in England.
    b. A factory made the first solid block of sweetened chocolate.
    c. The Spaniards started drinking cacao.
    d. It was found that sugar removed the bitter taste of cacao. e. A factory mixed milk and chocolate
        together.
A. a-b-c-d-e
B. c-d-e-b-a
C. c-d-a-b-e
D. c-d-b-e-a
5. It can be learned from the passage that ____.
A. chocolate can be a hot drink, a frozen dessert, or a candy bar
B. the Mayas only used cacao beans for drinking in Mexico
C. chocolate is a product of the cacao tree
D. people liked more the taste of solid blocks of sweetened chocolate than that of chocolate mixed with milk

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阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A,B,C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

  At one time, death was considered as the moment when the heart stopped beating and breathing. But scientists now recognize two states of death: clinical death, when breathing and circulation (循环) of the blood have stopped; and biological death, when some important organs, such as the heart, lungs, or brains stopped working. A person in a state of clinical death can return to life, but a person who has reached the biological state of death can't at present. Under normal conditions, the state of clinical death usually lasts for a period of 4 to 6 minutes: blood circulation has stopped, but the cells remain alive until they die of lacking of oxygen. When enough cells of any particular organ have died, the organ itself dies. The most rapidly and seriously damaged cells are the nerve cells. So it is not the stopped heart or the lack of breathing that cause death; rather, it is the death of the brain cells.

  The primary method that medical experts have used to extend the period of clinical death is artificial chilling(人工冷冻). When the patient's body is chilled to below normal temperature, the cells take longer to die. Using experimental animals, medical experts have extended the period of clinical death from minutes to hours by chilling them below their normal temperatures.

  Dogs in a state of artificial chilling have reduced their body temperature by more than 30 degrees and returned to life without organ damage after two hours. In contrast, few monkeys survived after only twenty to thirty minutes in the state of clinical death. A monkey's brain is more complicated(复杂) than a dog's . It can summarized by a phrase“the higher the animal, the more sensitive(敏感) it is to damage.”Medical experts are making efforts to explore the time limits of clinical death.

1.From the last paragraph, we can infer that human beings ________.

[  ]

A.are likely to reach biological death quickly

B.are likely to be more sensitive to the organ damage than animals

C.can live forever from now on

D.can extend the period of biological death

2.Clinical death can be considered as ________.

[  ]

A.lack of heartbeat

B.lack of breathing

C.the death of the brain cells

D.lack of heartbeat and breathing

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

[  ]

A.If a person stopped breathing, he is in a state of biological death.

B.The state of biological death usually lasts 4 to 6 minutes.

C.The higher the animals are, the more sensitive they are to the brain cells' damage.

D.Under normal conditions, clinical death can lasts for many hours.

4.If an old dead man is returned to life, the writer of the text would probably consider it ________.

[  ]

A.unbelievable
B.unreasonable
C.possible
D.wonderful

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  Dogs, like people and monkeys, seem to have a sense of fairness.

  In the reward experiments, Friederike Range experimented with dogs that understood the command“paw”, to place their paw in her hand.The dogs were asked to shake hands and each could see what reward the other received.When one dog got a reward and the other didn't, the unrewarded animal stopped playing.When both got a reward all was well.Range said she wasn't surprised at the dogs' reaction, since wolves are known to cooperate with one another and appear to be sensitive to each other.Modern dogs are descended from wolves.Next, she said, will be experiments to test how dogs and wolves work together.“Among other questions, we will study how differences in emotions(情绪)influence cooperative(合作的)abilities,”she said.

  But the dogs didn't seem to care whether the reward was sausage or bread.One possibility, they said, is that daily training with their owners overrides(比……优先)a preference.And the dogs never rejected the food, something that primates had done when they thought the reward was unfair.

  Clive Wynne, a professor in the University of Florida, isn't so sure the experiment measures the animals' reaction to fairness, which means that individuals are responding negatively to being treated less well.But the researchers didn't do a control test that had been done in monkey studies, in which a preferred reward was visible but not given to anyone.In that case the monkeys went on strike because they could see the better reward but got something lesser.In dogs, he noted, the quality of reward didn't seem to matter, so the test only worked when they got no reward at all.However, Wynne added, there is“no doubt in my mind that dogs are very, very sensitive to what people are doing and are very smart.”

(1)

What will dogs probably do when they think the test is unfair?

[  ]

A.

They will place their paw in your hand.

B.

They will stop playing.

C.

They will see what reward the other received.

D.

They will reject the food.

(2)

What does the underlined word“primates”in the third paragraph refer to?

[  ]

A.

People and monkeys.

B.

People and dogs.

C.

Dog and wolves.

D.

Sausage and bread.

(3)

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

[  ]

A.

Monkeys don't care whether the reward was sausage or bread.

B.

Monkeys will reject the reward when they think it is unfair.

C.

Dogs and wolves work together well because dogs are descended from wolves.

D.

Monkeys have cooperative abilities more than any other animal.

(4)

In which part of a newspaper do you think we can find this passage?

[  ]

A.

News.

B.

Science.

C.

Entertainment.

D.

Politics.

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Everybody is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he is known as being lazy, you might even be quite cross. Such behavior is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to have this finely developed sense of sadness. But a study by Sarah Brosnan of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.

The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys. They look smart. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food happily. Above all, like female human beings, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.

Such characteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnan’s study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens (奖券) for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate and connected rooms, so that each other could observe what the other is getting in return for its rock, they became quite different.

In the world of monkeys,grapes are excellent goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was not willing to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either shook her own token at the researcher, or refused to accept the cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other room (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to bring about dissatisfaction in a female monkey.

The researches suggest that these monkeys, like humans, are guided by social senses. In the wild, they are co-operative and group-living. Such co-operation is likely to be firm only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of anger when unfairly treated, it seems, are not the nature of human beings alone. Refusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings clear to other animals of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness developed independently in monkeys and humans, or whether it comes from the common roots that they had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.

1.According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.Only monkeys and humans can have the sense of fairness in the world.

B.In the wild, monkeys are never unhappy to share their food with each other.

C.Women will show more dissatisfaction than men when unfairly treated.

D.Monkeys can exchange cucumbers for grapes, for grapes are more attractive.

2.The underlined statement “it is all too monkey” means that ________.

A.monkeys are also angry with lazy fellows

B.monkeys, like humans, tend to be envious of each other

C.no animals other than monkeys can develop such feelings

D.feeling angry at unfairness is also monkey’s nature

3.Female monkeys of this kind are chosen for the research most probably because they are _________.

A.more likely to pay attention to the value of what they get

B.attentive to researchers’ instructions

C.nice in both appearance and behaviors

D.more ready to help others than their male companions

4.We can learn ________according to the passage?

A.Human beings' feelings of anger are developed from the monkeys.

B.Cooperation between monkeys stays firm before the realization of being cheated.

C.In the research, male monkeys are less likely to exchange food with others.

D.Only monkeys and humans have the sense of fairness dating back to 35 million years ago.

5.What can we infer about the monkeys in Sarah’s study?

A.The monkeys can be trained to develop social senses.

B.The monkeys may show their satisfaction with equal treatment.

C.They usually show their feelings openly as humans do.

D.Cooperation among the monkeys remains effective in the wild.

 

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Everybody is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he is known as being lazy, you might even be quite cross. Such behavior is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to have this finely developed sense of sadness. But a study by Sarah Brosnan of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.
The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys. They look smart. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food happily. Above all, like female human beings, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.
Such characteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnan’s study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens (奖券) for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate and connected rooms, so that each other could observe what the other is getting in return for its rock, they became quite different.
In the world of monkeys,grapes are excellent goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was not willing to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either shook her own token at the researcher, or refused to accept the cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other room (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to bring about dissatisfaction in a female monkey.
The researches suggest that these monkeys, like humans, are guided by social senses. In the wild, they are co-operative and group-living. Such co-operation is likely to be firm only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of anger when unfairly treated, it seems, are not the nature of human beings alone. Refusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings clear to other animals of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness developed independently in monkeys and humans, or whether it comes from the common roots that they had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question

  1. 1.

    According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

    1. A.
      Only monkeys and humans can have the sense of fairness in the world
    2. B.
      In the wild, monkeys are never unhappy to share their food with each other
    3. C.
      Women will show more dissatisfaction than men when unfairly treated
    4. D.
      Monkeys can exchange cucumbers for grapes, for grapes are more attractive
  2. 2.

    The underlined statement “it is all too monkey” means that ________

    1. A.
      monkeys are also angry with lazy fellows
    2. B.
      monkeys, like humans, tend to be envious of each other
    3. C.
      no animals other than monkeys can develop such feelings
    4. D.
      feeling angry at unfairness is also monkey’s nature
  3. 3.

    Female monkeys of this kind are chosen for the research most probably because they are _________

    1. A.
      more likely to pay attention to the value of what they get
    2. B.
      attentive to researchers’ instructions
    3. C.
      nice in both appearance and behaviors
    4. D.
      more ready to help others than their male companions
  4. 4.

    We can learn ________according to the passage?

    1. A.
      Human beings' feelings of anger are developed from the monkeys
    2. B.
      Cooperation between monkeys stays firm before the realization of being cheated
    3. C.
      In the research, male monkeys are less likely to exchange food with others
    4. D.
      Only monkeys and humans have the sense of fairness dating back to 35 million years ago
  5. 5.

    What can we infer about the monkeys in Sarah’s study?

    1. A.
      The monkeys can be trained to develop social senses
    2. B.
      The monkeys may show their satisfaction with equal treatment
    3. C.
      They usually show their feelings openly as humans do
    4. D.
      Cooperation among the monkeys remains effective in the wild

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