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Read 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.

Some animal behaviorists argue that certain animals can remember past events, anticipate future ones, make plans and choices, and coordinate activities within a group. These scientists, however, are cautious about the extent to which animals can be credited with conscious processing. Explanations of animal behavior that leave out any sort of consciousness at all and ascribe actions entirely to instinct leave many questions unanswered. One example of such unexplained behavior: Honeybees communicate the sources of nectar to one another by doing a dance in a figure-eight pattern. The orientation of the dance conveys the position of the food relative to the sun's position in the sky, and the speed of the dance tells how far the food source is from the hive. Most researchers assume that the ability to perform and encode the dance is innate and shows no special intelligence. But in one study, when experimenters kept changing the site of the food source, each time moving the food 25 percentfarther from the previous site, foraging honeybees began to anticipate where the food source would appear next. When the researchers arrived at the new location, they would find the bees circling the spot, waiting for their food. No one has yet explained how bees, whose brains weigh four ten-thousandths of an ounce, could have inferred the location of the new site. Other behaviors that may indicate some cognition include tool use. Many animals, like the otter who uses a stone to crack mussel shells, are capable of using objects in the natural environment as rudimentary tools. One researcher has found that mother chimpanzees occasionally show their young how to use tools to open hard nuts. In one study, chimpanzees compared two pairs of food wells containing chocolate chips. One pair might contain, say, five chips and three chips, the other our chips and three chips. Allowed to choose which pair they wanted, the chimpanzees almost always chose the one with the higher total, showing some sort of summing ability. Other chimpanzees have learned to use numerals to label quantities of items and do simple sums.

What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. Observations that suggest consciousness in animal behavior.

B. The use of food in studies of animal behavior.

C. The role of instinct in animal behavior.

D. Differences between the behavior of animals in their natural environments and in laboratory experiments.

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Trả lời:

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Chọn đáp án A

Giải thích: Đoạn văn chủ yếu đề cập đến những quan sát mà từ đó cho thấy ý thức trong hành vi cảu động vật. Thông tin nằm ở:

“Some animal behaviorists argue that certain animals can remember past events,”

“Explanations of animal behavior that leave out any sort of consciousness at all”

“Other behaviors that may indicate some cognition include tool use. Many animals, like the otter who uses a stone to crack mussel shells, are capable of using objects in the natural environment as rudimentary tools.”

Câu hỏi cùng đoạn

Câu 2:

Which of the following is NOT discussed as an ability animals are thought to have?

A. Communicating emotions

C. Selecting among choice

B. Remembering past experiences

D. Anticipating events to come

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Chọn đáp án A

Thông tin nằm ở: “Some animal behaviorists argue that certain animals can remember past events, anticipate future ones, make plans and choices, and coordinate activities within a group.”

Câu 3:

What did researchers discover in the study of honeybees discussed in paragraph 2?

A. Bees are able to travel at greater speeds than scientists thought.

B. The bees were able to determine in advance where scientists would place their food.

C. Changing the location of food caused bees to decrease their dance activity.
D. The bees could travel 25% farther than scientists expected.

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Chọn đáp án D

Giải thích: Thông tin nằm ở: “But in one study, when experimenters kept changing the site of the food source, each time moving the food 25 percent farther from the previous site”

Câu 4:

It can be inferred from the passage that brain size is assumed to ___________.

A. be an indicator of cognitive ability       

B. be related to food consumption

C. correspond to levels of activity        
D. vary among individuals within a species

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Chọn đáp án A

Giải thích: Thông tin nằm ở: “No one has yet explained how bees, whose brains weigh four ten-thousandths of an ounce, could have inferred the location of the new site.”

Câu 5:

Why are otters and mussel shells included in the discussion in paragraph 3?

A. To provide that certain species demonstrate greater ability in tool use than other species.

B. To provide an example of tool use among animals.

C. To show that animals are very good at using objects in their habitat.

D. To provide an example of the use of weapons among animals.

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Chọn đáp án B

Giải thích: Thông tin nằm ở: “Other behaviors that may indicate some cognition include tool use.”

Câu 6:

The word “rudimentary” is closest in meaning to ___________.

A. technical         
B. basic    
C. superior     
D. original

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verified Giải bởi Vietjack

Chọn đáp án B

Giải thích: rudimentary (adj) cơ bản = basic (adj) cơ bản, nền tảng

Câu 7:

Scientists concluded from the experiment with chimpanzees and chocolate chips that chimpanzees __________.

A. prefer to work in pairs or groups

B. have difficulty selecting when given choices

C. lack abilities that other primates have

D. exhibit behavior that indicates certain mathematical abilities

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Chọn đáp án D

Giải thích: Thông tin nằm ở: “Allowed to choose which pair they wanted, the chimpanzees almost always chose the one with the higher total, showing some sort of summing ability. Other chimpanzees have learned to use numerals to label quantities of items and do simple sums.”

CÂU HỎI HOT CÙNG CHỦ ĐỀ

Câu 1

A. fish         
B. amphibians     
C. birds     
D. mammals

Lời giải

Chọn đáp án A

Giải thích: “The very first vertebrates or animals with backbones, of which we have any fossil record, lived in water. These vertebrates, the fish, were adapted to underwater living.”

Câu 2

A. An overview of telecommuting        

B. The failure of telecommuting

C. The advantages of telecommuting         
D. A definition of telecommuting

Lời giải

Chọn đáp án A

Đoạn văn nêu lên định nghĩa về làm việc từ xa, thuận lợi, bất lợi của làm việc từ xa Chủ đề của đoạn văn là Tổng quan về làm việc từ xa.

Câu 3

A. too ready for college        

B. not as mature

C. not so academic        
D. responsible for their work

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Câu 4

A. Communicating emotions

C. Selecting among choice

B. Remembering past experiences

D. Anticipating events to come

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Câu 5

A. Bees are able to travel at greater speeds than scientists thought.

B. The bees were able to determine in advance where scientists would place their food.

C. Changing the location of food caused bees to decrease their dance activity.
D. The bees could travel 25% farther than scientists expected.

Lời giải

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Câu 6

A. be an indicator of cognitive ability       

B. be related to food consumption

C. correspond to levels of activity        
D. vary among individuals within a species

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