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is to learn English when your brain is only the size of a bird"s brain! That is what some birds can do.
Many different kinds of birds can copy the sounds of language. African grey parrots are the best known
for this.
Every December in London, the National Cage and Aviary Bird Show tries to find the best "talking" bird
in the world. One bird named Prudle stood out among the "talking birds". She won this prize for 12 years
from 1965 to 1976.
Prudle was taken from her nest in Uganda in 1958. She was sold to Iris Frost in Seaford, England. Prudle
knew almost 800 words in English.
Prudle was also the oldest bird in the world that lived in a cage. Ms. Frost took care of the bird until
Prudle died in 1994. Prudle was 35 years old.
A different kind of bird, not a parrot, named Puck was tested in 1993. It turned out that Puck knew more
English words than Prudle knew. Puck knew more than 1,700 words.
If a bird can do it, anybody can do it.
B. The birds with big brains.
C. The birds in cages.
D. English parrots.
B. 飞起来
C. 脱颖而出
D. 取出来
B. 12 years.
C. 55 years.
D. 8 years.
B. he knew more words
C. he spoke faster
D. he was bigger
B. Puck"s owner.
C. Prudle"s owner.
D. An English teacher
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试题【阅读理解。 Many students of English think that learning a new language is very di】；主要考察你对教育文化类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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other animals.
In one test the old scientist put a monkey in a room where there were several boxes. Some boxes were
inside other boxes. One small box had some food in it. The scientist wanted to watch the monkey and to
find out how long it would take the monkey to find the food. The scientist left the room. He waited a few
minutes outside the door. Then he got down on his knees (膝盖) and put his eyes to the keyhole. What did
he see? To his surprise, he found himself looking into the eye of the monkey. The monkey was on the other
side of the door and looked at the scientist through the keyhole.
B. if the monkey would look for the food
C. if the monkey was cleverer than other animals
D. if some boxes were inside other boxes
B. into several small boxes
C. into a box where there was some food
D. in a room
B. began to look for food
C. looked at the scientist through the keyhole
D. came into the boxes one after another
B. got down on his knees and heard with his ears
C. left the room for a long time
D. looked at the monkey through the keyhole with his eyes
B. the monkey came out of the room
C. the monkey looked at the scientist through the window
D. the monkey put its eye to the keyhole
his sleep early this month. Mr Todde was 112 years old. He was less than three weeks away from his 113th
birthday. Record-keeping experts say he was the world"s oldest man.
His long life and that of other very old Sardinians are the subjects of a scientific project (项目) called
Akea. Luca Deiana of Sassari University is directing (指导) the study. He says the name Akea comes from
a traditional greeting (问候) on Sardinia. It means "health and life for 100 years." Professor Deiana and his
team started to collect information for the study in 1997. They identified (确定)) more than 220 Sardinians
who were centenarians-100 years old or older. His team needed three documents to make sure a person"s
age. They were a government (政府) birth record, a church record and a statement (声明) by a close family
member.
The Akea study has produced two major findings. The first is Sardinia"s extremely high number of
centenarians. The island has about 135 centenarians for every one million people. In other Western countries,
the average (平均数) is about seventy-five centenarians for every one million people. The second major
finding is an unusual rate (率) of female (女性) to male (男性) centenarians. Sardinia has two women
centenarians for every male centenarian. In central Sardinia there are the same numbers of female and male
centenarians.
Studies in other parts of the world have shown a much higher percentage (百分比) of female centenarians.
The Akea study collected information about the health and food of about 140 of the centenarians. About
ninety percent of those in the study also agreed to provide blood (血) for scientific testing. The study team
hopes to identify genetic (基因) material in the blood that can be linked to successful aging. Study leaders
say there is no single reason why people on Sardinia live so long. They believe the answer is a combination
(组合) of genetic and environmental conditions (条件).
B．100
C．300
D．400
B．the long life of Sardinians
C．Sassari university
D．Professor Deiana
B．An unusual rate of female to male centenarians.
C．Two major findings of the Akea study.
D．Sardinia has equal numbers of female and male centenarians.
B．Because they have special genetic material in their blood.
C．Because they have a glass of wine every day.
D．Because they enjoy special genetic and environmental conditions.
sentences. But if we watch them, we can see that they do have ways of communicating with each other.
Can you see the rabbit"s tail which is moving up and down? When rabbits see this white tail moving up
and down, they run too. They know that there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making
a sound. It has done this by using its body language.
Many other animals use this kind of language. When a cobra is angry, it raises its head and makes itself
look fierce. This warns other animals. When a bee has found some food, it goes back to its home. It cannot
tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little dance in the air. This tells the
bees where the food is.
Some animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for example, when a stranger comes near. A
cat purrs when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning. Sometimes
we human beings speak in the same way. We make sounds like "Oh" or "Ah!" when we are frightened or
pleased or when we drop something on our toes.
But we have something that no animals have-a large number of words that have the meanings of things,
actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other all kinds of different information in words and
sentences, which no other animals can do. No other animals have so wonderful a language as we have.
B. all animals have their own ways of communicating with each other
C. some animals say things by words as human beings do
D. animals know how to protect themselves
B. tell other rabbits where food is
C. make itself look fierce
D. help itself to run fast
B. Making no sound.
C. Body language.
D. Doing a little dance.
B. A cobra shows his anger by body language.
C. Some animals can make sounds.
D. Man is unlucky because of their language.
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the radio, you can listen. But when you use telephone, not only you can listen to others but you can also
talk with them. 3. , you can"t see anything at all. Now television is 4. better than both of
them. People can watch TV and listen to it, but they can"t take part in what they see.
Today, some people are using a new type of telephone 5. (call) vision-phone (可视电话). With
the vision-phone, two people who are talking can 6. each other.
Vision-phone can be very 7. (use) when you have something to show the person whom you are
calling. It may also have other uses in the future. Some day you may be able to call up a library and ask to
read 8. book over your vision-phone, You may be able to do the shopping through it, too.
Suppose you read about something in the newspaper that you want to buy, you"ll go to your vision-phone
and call the shop. The shop assistant will show you the thing that you are 9. (interest) in. You"ll be
10. to shop all over the town and never leave your home.
Perhaps in the future, vision-phones will come into wide use in our everyday life.
2 .
Some students say they don"t want to read for pleasure. They say they want to use their 3 to learn
the rules of the language and new words. They say that pleasure reading is too easy.
Many experts say pleasure reading is very important for 4 English. Dr, Stephen Krashen, a famous
expert 5 learning languages, says that pleasure reading helps you learn many important things about
English. Students learn more grammar and more words when they read for pleasure. They also learn 6
about writing.
Dr Krashen tells us that pleasure reading helps each student in a 7 way. Each student needs to learn
something different. Pleasure reading makes 8 possible for each student to learn 9 he or she needs.
Reading for pleasure is not the same as studying. When you read for pleasure, you choose your own books,
and you don"t have to remember everything. There are no tests on your pleasure reading books. Pleasure
reading will help you 10 follows.
·learn how English speakers use English.
·read faster in English
·find examples of good writing in English
·learn new words
·learn about the cultures of English speakers