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【題目】 You may have seen a talking parrot on a TV show, in a movie, or even in someone's home. The parrot has learned to copy sounds that people make. Birds are not the only animals that can copy the noises they hear. Dolphins, bats, and some apes (猿猴) also copy sounds. Now we can add elephants to this list of copycats (盲目模仿者).

Dr. Joyce Poole is a zoologist. She studies the sounds of elephants. While she was in Kenya, she would hear strange noises made by Mlaika, a 10-year-old elephant, after sunset.

Mlaika lived near a highway. Dr. Poole says, "I could not tell the difference between Mlaika's call and the distant (遠(yuǎn)處的) truck noise." She and other scientists studied Mlaika's sounds. It turned out that Mlaika was copying the sounds of the trucks driving by. Why would Mlaika copy trucks that she heard going by on the highway? Animals that are able to copy sounds may enjoy practicing new sounds. When they are kept outside of their natural environment, they may copy unusual sounds. That may be why an elephant would copy the sound of a truck.

"Mlaika was not the only copycat elephant," Dr. Poole says. Calimero is a 23-year-old male (雄性的) African elephant. He spent 18 years with two female (雌性的) Asian elephants. Asian elephants make chirping sounds (sounds made by birds) to talk with another. African elephants usually do not make chirping sounds. But Calimero now does. He is copying his Asian elephant friends. Dr. Poole says that elephants need to form bonds with their family and friends. She says, "They make sounds to communicate with each other. When they are separated, they use sounds to keep in touch.”

Parrots, dolphins, humans and elephants show that being copycat is one way that animals and people make new friends and keep old ones.

【1】According to the passage, what does Mlaika copy?

A.The sound of people.B.The sounds of trucks.C.The sounds of birds.

【2】Why is Calimero mentioned in the passage?

A.To show the cleverness of African elephants.

B.To introduce a special life skill of Asian elephants.

C.To add another example of copycat elephants.

【3】From Para 4, we can know________.

A.how Asian and African elephants are alike.

B.why the African elephant can make chirping sounds.

C.why the Asian elephants make noises after sunset.

【4】What does underlined word “bonds” mean?

A.發(fā)帶B.樂隊(duì)C.紐帶

【5】What does the passage mainly talk about?

A.Elephants are also copycats.B.What an elephant can do.C.The sounds of elephants.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】B

【4】C

【5】A

【解析】

本文是一篇說明文，主要介紹了動物模仿聲音的現(xiàn)象。除了鸚鵡、海豚等會模仿聲音外，大象也會模仿聲音。文中提到了會模仿拖拉機(jī)聲音的大象以及模仿亞洲象聲音的非洲象等，這些現(xiàn)象表明動物的模仿是建立和保持友誼的一種方法。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段“It turned out that Mlaika was copying the sounds of the trucks driving by”可知，Mlaika在模仿卡車的聲音。故選B。

【2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段“Mlaika was not the only copycat elephant…He is copying his Asian elephant friends”及語境可知，Calimero這頭非洲象會模仿亞洲大象的聲音，因此作者以它為例證明Mlaika并不是唯一會模仿的大象。故選C。

【3】主旨大意題。根據(jù)“He is copying his Asian elephant friends…They make sounds to communicate with each other.”可知，本段主要介紹非洲象模仿亞洲象發(fā)出啁啾聲音的原因，即用聲音與家人和朋友建立聯(lián)系、互相交流。故選B

【4】詞句猜測題。根據(jù)前后文“Dr. Poole says that elephants need to form bonds with their family and friends…They make sounds to communicate with each other”可知，大象需要在家人和朋友之間形成一條紐帶，以便于建立聯(lián)系、互相交流，故劃線部分bonds意為“紐帶”。故選C。

【5】主旨大意題。根據(jù)第一段最后一句“Now we can add elephants to this list of copycats”及全文內(nèi)容可知，本文主要介紹了除鸚鵡、海豚等動物之外，大象也會模仿各種聲音，并列舉了兩個(gè)例子證明這一現(xiàn)象，故本文主要講述了“大象也是模仿者”。故選A。