MBA考试

【单选题】Research on animal intelligence always makes me wonder just how smart humans are. (1) 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 fly (2) to live shorter lives. This suggests that (3) bulbs burn longer, that there is an (4) in not being too terrifically bright.
Intelligence, it (5) , is a high-priced option. It takes more upkeep, burns more fuel and is slow (6) the starting line because it depends on learning—a (7) process—instead of instinct. Plenty of other species are able to learn, and one of the things they’ve apparently learned is when to (8)
Is there an adaptive value to (9) intelligence That’s the question behind this new research. I like it. Instead of casting a wistful glance (10) at all the species we’ve left in the dust I. Q. wise, it implicitly asks what the real (11) of our own intelligence might be. This is (12) the mind of every animal I’ve ever met.
Research on animal intelligence also makes me wonder what experiments animals would (13) on humans if they had the chance.Every cat with an owner, (14) , is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning. We believe that (15) animals ran the labs, they would test us to (16) the limits of our patience, our faithfulness, our memory for terrain. They would try to decide what intelligence in humans is really (17) , not merely how much of it there is. (18) , they would hope to study a (19) question:Are humans actually aware of the world they live in (20) the results are inconclusive.
A、Above allB、After allC、HoweverD、Otherwise
网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
[考点] 逻辑衔接题 [解析] 本题目选择逻辑关系词，体现前后句子之间的逻辑关系。前面两句解释了假设动物对人类进行实验会进行的内容：它们想了解人类的某些极限，想知道人类智慧的用途。本句与前两句构成并列排比，they would hope to study a ______ question“它们希望研究一个问题”，与前两句应为顺承关系，表示强调或递进，所以B．After all毕竟；C．However但是；D．Otherwise否则，三者均不符合题意，只有Above all“首先，尤其是”符合题意。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>