67.The underlined statement “it is all too monkey” means that_______.
A.monkeys are also angry with lazy fellows
B.feeling bitter at unfairness is also monkey’s nature
C.monkeys, like humans, tend to be envious of each other
D.no animals other than monkeys can develop such feelings
66.Female monkeys of this kind are chosen for the research most probably because they are .
A.more serious about 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
65.What would be the best title for the text?
A.The First Facial Transplantation
B.Debate on the Ethics of Face Transplants
C.Face Transplants―No Longer Science Fantasy
D.Let’s Face It
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)-some rocks, 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.
64.What is implied but not stated in the passage?
A.Christine Piff has been the first lucky patient to receive a face transplant.
B.Surgeons have difficulty finding enough willing donors.
C.The main difficulty with the operation lies in the matter of ethics and morality.
D.Nobody other than Christine Piff is quite in favor of the donation of organs.
62.When Christine Piff says “There are so many people without faces…”, she refers to the people
who _________.
A.are dishonorable and shameless
B.disagree with the full face transplant
C.are seriously injured by an accident
D.are disfigured by accidents, burns and cancer
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