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【单选题】 Animal’s “Sixth Sense”
A tsunami wastriggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean in December, 2004. It killedtens of thousands of people in Asia and East Africa. Wild animals,____1____,seem to have escaped that terrible tsunami. This phenomenon adds weight tonotions that1 they possess a “sixth sense” for____2____, experts said.
Sri Lankan wildlifeofficials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along theIndian Ocean island’s coast clearly____3____ wild beasts, with nodead animals found.
“No elephants aredead, not____4____ a dead rabbit. I think animals can____5____ disaster. Theyhave a sixth sense. They know when things are happening,” H. D. Ratnayake,deputy director of Sri Lanka’s Wildlife Department, said about one monthafter the tsunami attack. The____6____ washed floodwaters up to 2 miles inlandat Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka’s biggestwildlife____7____ and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards.
“There has been a lotof____8____ evidence about dogs barking or birds migrating before volcaniceruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven,” said Matthew vanLierop, an animal behavior____9____ at Johannesburg Zoo.
“There have beenno____10____ studies because you can’t really test it in a lab or field setting2，” he told Reuters.Other authorities concurred with this____11____ ·
“Wildlife seem to beable to pick up certain____12____ especially birds ... there are many reportsof birds detecting impending disasters/’ said Clive Walker, who has written severalbooks on African wildlife.
Animals____13____rely on the known senses such as smell or hearing to avoid danger such aspredators.
The notion of ananimal “sixth sense” — or____14____ othermythical power — is an enduring one3which the evidence on Sri Larika’s ravaged coast is likely to add to.

The Romans sawowls____15____ omens of impending disaster and many ancient cultures viewedelephants as sacred animals endowed with special powers or attributes
1.A　thereforeB　however C　although D　whatever
2.A　shelters B　foodsC　disasters D　water
3.A　missed B　protectedC　raised D　caught
4.A　such B　tooC　so D　even
5.A　feel B　seeC　hear D　sense
6.A　waves B　tidesC　winds D　rivers
7.A　birthplaces B　playgroundC　reserve D　storage
8.A　experimental B　apparentC　scientific D　chemical
9.A　specialist B　assistantC　supporter D　sponsor
10.A　additional B　specificC　especial D　exceptional
11.A　modification B　detectionC　assessment D　value
12.A　route B　behaviorC　principle D　phenomenon
13.A　unwillingly B　occasionallyC　doubtfully Dcertainly
14.A　some B　muchC　many D　few
15.A　on B　asC　for D　in

网考网参考答案：B、C、A、D、D、A、C、B、A、B、C、D、D、A、B
大数据分析：根据网考网与考试题库的统计分析，该试题：
63%的考友选择了A选项
31%的考友选择了B选项
1%的考友选择了C选项
5%的考友选择了D选项
考友解析与评论：
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