2005年考研英语阅读第一部分题解
王若平
【摘 要】Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for slacking, you might even be outraged. Such behaviour is regarded as \assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance. But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well. 【期刊名称】《大学英语》 【年(卷),期】2005(000)004 【总页数】8页(P31-38) 【关键词】题解;考研;英语阅读 【作 者】王若平 【作者单位】无 【正文语种】中 文 【中图分类】教科文艺
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