公共英语考试

【单选题】Research on animal intelligence always makes me wonder just how smart humans are. (21) the fruit-fly experiments described inCarl Zimmer’s piece in the Science Times on Tuesday. Fruit-flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit-flies (22) to live shorter lives. This suggests that (23) bulbs burn longer, that there is a(n) (24) in not being too terrifically bright. Intelligence, it (25) , is a high-priced option. It takes more upkeep, burns more fuel and is slow (26) the starting line because it depends on learning process—a (27) learning—instead of instinct. Plenty of other species are able to learn, and one of the things they’ve apparently learned is when to (28) Is there an adaptive value to (29) intelligence That’s the question behind this new research. I like it. Instead of casting a wistful glance (30) at all the species we’ve left in the dust I. Q. wise, it implicitly asks what the real (31) of our own intelligence might be. This is (32) the mind of every animal I’ve ever met. Research on animal intelligence also makes me wonder what experiments animals would (33) on humans if they had the chance.Every cat with an owner, (34) , is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning. We believe that (35) animals ran the labs, they would test us to (36) the limits of our patience, our faithfulness, our memory for terrain. They would try to decide what intelligence in humans is really (37) , not merely how much of it there is. (38) , they would hope to study a (39) question.Are humans actually aware of the world they live in (40) the results are inconclusive.
A、features B、influences C、results D、costs
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
本题考查名词辨析。本题选择名词，做宾语从句的主语。...it implicitly asks what the real of our own intelligence might be.“这项实验含蓄地提出一个问题：人类智慧的真正……可能是什么。”前文已经提到Intelligence...is a high-priced option，因此应选D项costs“代价”。features“特征”；influences“影响”；results“结果”。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>