MBA考试

【单选题】Research on animal intelligence always makes us wonder just how smart humans are. (1) the fruit-fly experiments described byCarl Zimmer in the Science Times. 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 a(n) (4) in not being too 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(n) (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. 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 we’ve ever met.
Research on animal intelligence also makes us 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 locations. 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(n) (19) question:Are humans actually aware of the world they live in (20) the results are inconclusive.
A、incredibleB、spontaneousC、inevitableD、gradual
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
本题各选项的意思分别是：A．incredible(难以置信的)；B．spontaneous(自发的)；C．inevitable(不可避免的)；D．gradual(渐进的)。上文提到“智力需要更高的给养，更多的燃料，并且离开起点(前进的)进程缓慢，因为智力取决于学习。此空白应与instead of后面的instinct(本能)形成对照关系。A项指学习是难以置信的过程；B项指学习是自发的过程；C项指学习是不可避免的过程，这些都不符合上下文逻辑，所以排除。学习不是本能，而是一个循序渐进的过程，所以本题选D。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>