Comprehensive Exercises:
Interviewer: You mention the case of one whale helping to save another in an ______________(1). What does this suggest
Linden: Well, it seems to me that this is
clearly__________________(2)of______________(3) thought. Here we see an animal ______________(4) a situation and then taking appropriate action in cooperation with humans.
Interviewer: And when Jendry_______________(5) with Colo, what does that________________(6)
Linden: It shows that some animals, gorillas at least, are intelligent enough to bargain, to _______________(7).
Interviewer: Then there is the case of Miles and Chantek.
Linden:Oh, like to think of ourselves as the
________________(8)species, but that doesn't mean animals
can't sometimes play tricks on us when it's ______________________________(9)！
Interviewer: Like Melati_____________(10)Shewman Linden: Exactly.
Interviewer: So would you say your approach to the problem settles the ________________（11)over animal intelligenceLinden: That's not an
easy________________(12) to make, but it does,I think, open up interesting new paths to_________________________(13).
Behavior is the way that animals act. For example, how do they get food or take care of their young How do they find a place to live in or_______________(1) themselves from danger Much behavior is innate; that is, animals are born with (2), animals learn much other behavior. There are several kinds of learned behavior.
One simple _______________(3) of learned behavior is happens when an animal learns to feel comfortable in a new _________________(4) and doesn't pay attention to it
anymore. For example, young horses are often afraid of noisy
streets. But after a while, they learn to pay no attention to the normal __________________(5)and sounds of a city.
Another kind of learned behavior is conditioning. It is a way of learning by association 一that is, by putting__________________ (6)different ideas. In 1900, Ivan Pavlov, a Russian biologist, studied conditioning in dogs. Dogs innately salivate (produce liquid in the mouth) when they smell food. Pavlov___________________(7) a bell every time he gave food to a dog. Soon the dog started
to___________________(8)the sound of the bell with the smell of food. After some time, it salivated when it heard a bell alone, ________________(9) food.
Learning is important for all animals in a new____________(10). It allows an animal to be adaptable 一that is, able to change in a new situation.
Unit 8
Vocabulary
1.
1) The problem of air pollution in our city is very serious
because ours is a big zone of both residential and ____________buildings.
2) Average students who work hard usually do better than
clever students who are___________.
3) When the camera ________________properly,a green light
comes on.
4) The fundamental issue in the current debate is whether
environmental led contamination cause___________ impairment(受损)in children.
5) The girl,__________and trembling,stood in the doorway
hiding from the man who had followed her.
6) It is reported that no more than a ___________of have
been successful in the Japanese market.
7) I’ve been doing the summer job for two months would be
a ___________to be able to have a day off. 8) Clarence refused to comment on the state of his
marriage,saying it is “a__________matter.”
9) William ____________late and didn’t get to work until
ten o’clock.
10) We agreed before we did the deal that we’d both take an
equal __________of the profit.
11) When you look at the state of his car it’s
a__________that he wasn’t killed! 3.
1) With the help of a bank loan, the company employed a
group of skilled were developed and put on the market. As a result the company solved
_____________________problems.(financial,complex,manual)
2)Philip_________________to find it so hard to _______________________writing in the new country. He ________that he would give up his writing career and try some other job. To his delight, he
____________________________when he switched to teaching, and even had adequate money for a new car. (swear, upset, better off, make a living)
3) The other day my friend John and I paid a visit to the museum of fine arts in our city. The museum had recently
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