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1、大学六级-809 及答案解析(总分:712.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数:1,分数:106.00)1.写博客的好处;2. 写博客存在的问题;3. 你的看法。Blog Writing(分数:106.00)_二、Part Reading Compr(总题数:1,分数:70.00)Animal EinsteinsWhen it comes to intelligence, human beings are the top dogs of the animal kingdom. Or so we tell ourselves. But in recent years
2、, scientists have been documenting surprising intelligence and emotional depth in animals ranging from humble honeybees to thundering elephants. Through studies in labs and in the wild, researchers have found animals communicating complex ideas, solving problems, using tools and expressing their fee
3、lings behaviors once thought to be uniquely human.The intelligence were talking about is more than, say, training a dog to detect cancer in humans, a feat that may save many lives. Its the ability of the animal to use an innate trait for a complex purpose. Here are, some amazing examples.Artistic Mo
4、nkey BusinessWhen Janet Schmid became executive director of the Little River Zoo in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1996, she learned a lot about the intelligence of monkeys. She and her husband adopted a young male who had a naughty personality, and named him Mr. Bailey. The monkey particularly liked taking c
5、ar rides, insisting that he insert the ignition key and ride shotgun in the passengers seat. “He loved to duck below the window as wed come to an intersection“, Schmid recalls, “When wed stop, hed jump up and laugh at the car next to us, just to get a rise out Of the passengers“.Now 12 years old, Mr
6、. Bailey has become an avid painter. He uses a variety of brush strokes to create colorful, abstract canvases and, like any temperamental artist, prefers not to be disturbed while creating his art. “Hell paint steadily for almost an hour and wont let anyone interrupt him until he puts down his brush
7、“, says Schmid. “Hes amazing to watch bemuse you can tell theres a thought process occurring. When we raised him, we quit watching TV because be was so entertaining“.Ivy League ParrotThe term birdbrain is considered an insult, but some birds actually are pretty brainy. One African grey parrot in sub
8、urban Boston is said to have the cognitive abilities of a five-year-old child. Alex (for Avian Learning Experiment) is a 29-year-old bird thats been tutored most of his life by Irene Pepperberg, PhD, a Harvard-educated professor now teaching at Brandeis University. Alex can identify 50 different obj
9、ects, seven colors, five shapes, quantities up to six, and the concepts of bigger, smaller, same and different. “And he said, Im tarry“, reports Pepperberg. “He knew what was appropriate to say“.Pepperberg insists that Alex makes reasoned decisions meaning he possesses language abilities once though
10、t to separate humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. During an experiment in 2004, researchers gave Alex different-colored blocks in sets of two, three and six. When asked which color group bed five blocks, Alex replied, “None“. And he repeated the answer in duplicate tests. Although Alex had p
11、reviously learned the term to describe the difference between two identically sized objects, he apparently interpreted the concept of “none“ as an absence of quantity all on his own.“The important thing was not just that he understood a zero-like concept“, says Pepperberg, “but that he was able to t
12、ake information from one domain and apply it to another. Thats a lot like a high school student answering questions on a quiz show“.Such feats have made Alex a celebrity.Cultured Orangutans (猩猩)Because orangutans and humans share 97 percent of the same DNA, its no surprise that the primates exhibit
13、impressive brainpower. Take Chantek, a 28-year-old living in Zoo Atlanta. Raised like a human child by anthropologist H. Lyn Miles, PhD, Chantek learned to use a toilet, clean his room and receive an allowance, which he spent on trips to McDonalds. Today he knows more than 150 words in sign language
14、 and can comprehend spoken English. Likened to a four-year-old child, he can also make necklaces, play Simon Says, and sign that he wants a car ride to the park.“We can have a conversation and play games together“, says Miles, a professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
15、. “He might sign bed sleep hug if he wants a nighttime hug before going to sleep“; Miles says Chantek has even invented some new words, signing “tomato toothpaste“ for ketchup, and “eye drink“ for contact lens solution. Chantek calls himself an “orangutan person“ to distinguish himself from others.E
16、motional ElephantsKnown for their legendary memories, elephants also exhibit jumbo-sized compassion. When one elephant in a herd is slowed from injury, the rest will wait until it-catches up. And if an elephant gets stuck in a mud hole, others help. “Theyll try to get under the elephant like a forkl
17、ift“, says Marc Bekoff, PhD, a professor of animal behavior at the University of Colorado in Boulder. “Then theyll push it out“.Bekoff, author of Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues, notes that after an elephant dies, the others in its herd will grieve. He observed a group of elephants in northern K
18、enya after the death of their matriarch. “They were just moping (闷闷不乐) around with their heads and tails low“, says Bekoff. “Clearly they were in mourning“.Elephants also demonstrated their sensitivity and compassion before the 2OO4 tsunami slammed into the coast of Thailand. Eyewitnesses reported t
19、hat elephants were screaming and running for higher ground. But on the way, they used their trunks to scoop up and save about a dozen tourists.Buzzing Prodigies (天才)Its hard to imagine something as small as a bug having much in the brain department. But the humble honeybee possesses the second-most
20、complex language, after humans. When a honeybee returns to a hive after dining on flower nectar, it performs a complex waggle dance to tell other bees whether the meal is worth a trip. “The honeybee can send 10,000 messages, providing the distance, direction and quantity of food“, says James Gould,
21、PhD, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University. “Not even chimps or dolphins can say as many things“.Some critics argue that bee dances reflect innate behavior rather than intelligence, but Gould insists that the bees are brainy. If they sense a storm coming, theyll sto
22、p their dance so other bees wont get caught in the rain while searching for food. And when theyre looking for a new home, honeybee scouts whove found a dry spot will suddenly change their dance if an observer pours a glass of water inside. “Theyre a lot like people judging whether to buy a house“, s
23、ays Gould.Smart SuckersOctopuses may be spineless, but theyre not brainless. At the Seattle Aquarium, marine biologist Roland Anderson, PhD, reports that giant, Pacific octopuses (GPOs) are not only intelligent creatures but also leaded with personality. One female was named Emily Dickinson because
24、she was so shy she used to hide in a narrow space behind the tanks backdrop. A frisky male became Leisure Suit Larry, due to his fondness for groping volunteers who wandered too close to his tank. “If he were a man, hed have been cited for sexual harassment“, says Anderson.Last year, Anderson devise
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