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C. products of the latest design flood the market be replaced often
11. What is this passage mainly about? A. The variety of choices in modern society.
B. The opinions on people’s right in different countries C. The helplessness in buying decisions
D. The problems about the availability of everyday goods.
D
Birds Can “Read” Human Gaze
We all know that people sometimes change their behavior when someone is looking their way. Now, a new study reported online on April 2nd in Current Biology shows that jackdaws (寒鸦) — birds related to crows with eyes that appear similar to human eyes — can do the same.
“Jackdaws seem to recognize the eye’s role in visual perception (视觉), or at the very least they are extremely sensitive to the way that human eyes are directed,” said Auguste von Bayern, formerly of the University of Cambridge and now at the University of Oxford.
When presented with a preferred food, hand-raised jackdaws took longer to get the reward when a person was directing his eyes towards the food than when he was looking away, according to the research team led by Nathan Emery of the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London. The birds hesitated only when the person was not known to them and thus potentially threatening.
In addition, the birds were able to understand human communicative gestures, such as stare change and pointing, to help them find hidden food, they found. The birds were unsuccessful in using unmoving signals, including eye stare or head direction.
Unlike most birds, jackdaws’ eyes have a dark pupil (瞳孔) surrounded by a silvery white iris (虹膜). The researchers said they believe jackdaws are probably sensitive to human eyes because, as in humans, eyes are an important means of
D. everyday goods need to
顶顶顶分分分发communication for them. The hand-raised birds examined in the study may be even better than wild jackdaws at attending to human stare and responding to the gestures of the people who have raised them.
The findings are particularly notable given that most other species examined so far, including our closest relatives, the chimpanzee and “man’s best friend,” the dog, are not particularly sensitive to eye direction and eye stare, von Bayern said. Rather, she continued, chimps and dogs seem to rely on other signals such as head or body direction in determining the looking direction of others. The results suggest that birds may deserve more respect for their mental abilities.
“We may have understated the psychological world of birds,” von Bayern said. “Jackdaws, among many other birds, form pair ties for life and need to have much in common and work together with their partner, which requires an efficient way of communicating and sensitivity to their partner’s viewpoint.”
12. A hand-raised jackdaw hesitates to take a preferred food when the feeder ______. A. is unfamiliar to the bird
B. is looking away from the food D. is looking at the food
C. holds the food in his hand
13. According to the researchers, jackdaws can notice human eye direction probably because ______.
A. their eyes also have a dark pupil
B. they are far more intelligent than other birds C. they are mostly hand-raised by humans
D. like humans, they also use eyes to communicate 14. Why does the author refer to chimpanzees and dogs?
A. To suggest that they are much better at understanding stare change. B. To make clear that they rely on other means in determining people’s intention. C. To show that they communicate more frequently with humans than jackdaws. D. To reflect how unique jackdaws are in being able to notice stare direction. 15. What does the research finding suggest?
A. We know embarrassingly less about birds than we assume. B. Not all jackdaws are good at attending to human stare.
顶顶顶分分分发C. We may have understated jackdaws’ mental abilities.
D. The closer we communicate with animals, the better we understand them. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项有两项为多余选项。
Some people describe American society as a salad bowl while others think of it as a melting pot.
In a bowl of salad, all the ingredients (原料) are mixed together. 16 Together, however, the ingredients make up a unity. All the ingredients of a salad contribute to the finished product. They may be covered with the same dressing (调味酱), but the green vegetables, tomatoes and cooked corn can all be seen for what they are.
From this point of view, America is very much like a salad bowl where individual ethnic groups mix together, yet maintain their cultural uniqueness. People may work together during the day at similar jobs and in the same companies, but at night they may return to their ethnic groups where their own individual culture directs their way of life. 17 Each ethnic group has its own special customs, language, food and traditions to protect and defend. This idea of the salad bowl is referred to as cultural diversity; that is, American society is a collection of various cultures living together in harmony within one country.
18 Here, society is like one large pot of soup. All cultural aspects are mixed together, sacrificing their original identity and keeping a bit of what they were to become a new reality. The longer the soup is cooked, the better the taste and the more likely it will be for the mixture to be cooked. In this sense, America can surely be seen as a melting pot where people from all over the world come to live and work together creating one nation. There are dozens of shared symbols. 19 In such a culture, symbols like the flag and the nation’s official song serve to break down the walls which separate ethnic groups.
Whether a salad bowl or a melting pot, America can be best described as a mixture of both. 20__
顶顶顶分分分发A. They never lose their shapes, colors or tastes. B. Both are ridiculous.
C. This is why there is so much diversity within America.
D. Thus, one needs to abandon one’s culture to be considered “American”. E. In other words, America is a nation where there is unity in diversity. F. The other theory, which is also used to describe American society, is the melting pot.
G. They serve to develop the various ethnic groups to create a new American culture. 第三部分 英语知识运用（共二节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Hello, Mr. Wi-Fi. Life without you is next to impossible. We’re happy to sing your name from morning till evening, sometimes till dawn. 21 I know you help me, sometimes you’re making me do things with 22 attention. Many times I promise myself that I’ll 23 my feelings towards you, but you’re 24 me closer and closer… You’ve entered both my home and my 25 . You’re just a window for our 26 and information. But we people aren’t 27 only with the window. So we open all our 28 for you. Is this a(n) 29 or some kind of attachment? If this is an illness, is it curable? And if this is an attachment will you 30 me to the lifelong togetherness?
We want you 24/7. Can’t you take a few days off so that both you and I can 31 ? You’re a poison — not a slow one but a super 32 poison which holds our mind and makes us dance 33 its tune. Nowadays you’re so 34 that anyone can buy and make you our 35 . You’ll never be bothered about our health but we’ll 36 be concerned about your “health”. Because you accompany us everywhere and never let us be alone.
If you were a 37 person made of flesh and blood, would we love you the same? You 38 us with your numerous talents and we even can’t get rid of you. We’re all your 39 . Sometimes I wonder how people in the previous generations 40 ,