Câu hỏi:
16/03/2020 2,878Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Animals have an intuitive awareness of quantities. They know without analysis the difference between a number of objects and a smaller number. In his book “The Natural History of Selboure” (1786), the naturalist Gilbert White tells how he surreptitiously removed one egg a day from a plover’s nest, and how the mother laid another egg each day to make up for the missing one. He noted that other species of birds ignore the absence of a single egg but abandon their nests if more than one egg has been removed. It has also been noted by naturalists that a certain type of wasp always provides five - never four, never six -caterpillars for each of their eggs so that their young have something to eat when the eggs hatch. Research has also shown that both mice and pigeons can be taught to distinguish between odd and even numbers of food pieces.
These and similar accounts have led some people to infer that creatures other than humans can actually count. They also point to dogs that have been taught to respond to numerical questions with the correct number of barks, or to horses that seem to solve arithmetic problems by stomping their hooves the proper number of times.
Animals respond to quantities only when they are connected to survival as a species - as in the case of the eggs - or survival as individuals - as in the case of food. There is no transfer to other situations or from concrete reality to the abstract notion of numbers. Animals can “count” only when the objects are present and only when the numbers involved are small - not more than seven or eight. In lab experiments, animals trained to “count” one kind of object were unable to count any other type. The objects, not the numbers, are what interest them. Animals’ admittedly remarkable achievements simply do not amount to evidence of counting, nor do they reveal more than innate instincts, refined by the genes of successive generations, or the results of clever, careful conditioning by trainers.
Where in the passage does the author mention research that supports his own view of animals’ inability to count?
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Trả lời:
Đáp án D.
Key words: where, research, support, animals’ inability to count.
Clue: In lab experiments, animals trained to “count” one kind of object were unable to count any other type: Trong phòng thí nghiệm, động vật được dạy để “đếm” một loại vật thể không thể đếm được bất kỳ loại vật thể nào khác.
Động vật chỉ có thể đếm được loại vật thể mà chúng được dạy nghĩa là thực sự thì chúng không biết đếm.
Vậy đáp án chính xác là D. Line 17-18. Trong hai dòng này tác giả đề cập đến nghiên cứu giúp ủng hộ quan điểm của ông về việc động vật không có khả năng đếm.
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MEMORIZE count (v) / kaʊnt / = number: đếm count heads: đếm số người = consider: tính, xem xét - count the cost: tính toán thiệt hơn = have value: có giá trị, được kể đến - that counts/ that doesn’t count: chuyện ấy đáng/ không đáng quan tâm |
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