单选题 Monkeys and chimpanzees, although they are weaker and less fierce than many other animals, possess brains which are 55 far along the evolutionary road as any creature other than man. Birds can perform marvels of aerobatics, they can catch insects on the wing with unparalleled skill, they can navigate in a remarkable manner half round the world and back—but they cannot think and reason. In technical terms it can be said that they are lacking in insight. The abilities which they do possess are built-in instincts derived from their genetic inheritance. Monkeys, on the other hand, can reason. They can easily remember a lighted door indicating the presence of food. They can remember what kind of food they are looking for. A monkey set the problem of reaching a banana, say, hung high up in its cage, can work out a system for getting it even if it involves piling up boxes to stand on and then knocking down the banana with a stick. A charming story is told about the psychologist Wolfgang Kobler, who had provided various boxes and other apparatuses by which he proposed to test a chimpanzee"s ability to think out a method of reaching a fruit hung nine feet in the air. The animal looked about it and sized up the problem. Then it took Kobler by the hand, led him to a position immediately under the banana, jumped up on to his shoulder and reached it down from there.
But evolution, although it has brought monkeys to a remarkable degree of cleverness, has stopped short at a crucial ability, the possession of which places man at a clearly superior level. Their minds cannot cope with abstract ideas. For example, an ape can be taught to fill a can with water from a barrel and take the can of water to put out a fire so that it can reach into a box and get food. But if the whole set-up is arranged on a raft the animal will continue to draw its water only from the barrel. It can not grasp that any water, taken more, conveniently, say, from the pond on which the raft is floating, will pot out the fire just as well. The abstract idea that water puts out fire is beyond it.

单选题 Birds owe their remarkable abilities to ______.

单选题 The superior intelligence of monkeys, compared with other creatures, apart from man, is demonstrated by ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 如果选A项，理由不成立，因为许多动物都有大脑，并不能说明猴子的优越智力。C项有记忆力，其他动物也有记忆力，也不能说明理由。D项除了人类之外，其他任何动物都不能处理抽象概念，所以D项更应该排除在外。只有B项才符合本题题意。从文中所举的“取香蕉”例子可以清楚地看出：“Monkeys, on the other hand, can reason. ”(另一方面，猴子具有思维能力。)

单选题 Monkeys show their superiority in intelligence over other creatures apart from man by ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 在本文第—段心理学家Wolfgany Kohler所做的实验可以看出，猴子能够想出解决问题的办法：Then it took Kohler by the hand, led him to a position immediately under the banana, jumped up on to his shoulder and reached it down from there. (然后，猴子拽着Kohler的手，把他拉到香蕉的正下方，跳到他的肩膀上，从那摘到了香蕉。)由此可见，D项是正确答案。