单选题 Man finds living together with his own species(物种)difficult enough and living together with other species almost impossible. Our usual solution is to kill off anything that get in our way. Even on those rare occasions when we do enter into a relationship with another species, it is heavily biased(带有倾向)in our favor. The other species benefits only when it suits our own interests. Our attempts to communicate with another species are concerned mainly with giving orders in our own language and having them obeyed Probably our best attempt has been the whistle language that is used in the shepherd-sheepdog relationship. This is a system that is natural to neither species, but one that both can understand. Its only fault lies in fact that the bias is still there--the dog cannot whistle for the man.
But now comes news of a piece of research that promises, for the first time, to open up two-way communication between man and another species.
At the University of Nevada in the western United States, animated(活跃的)conversations are being held with a young female chimpanzee (黑猩猩)called Washoe. Allen and Beatrice Gardener have succeeded in doing this because they have used an entirely new approach, an approach based on the natural abilities of the chimpanzee. Past attempts to communicate with chimpanzees have failed because the researchers tried to make their animals use a vocal language.

单选题 According to the writer, when man finds it impossible to live together with other species, he usually______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[答案精解] 题干意为“根据文章，在人类发现和另一个物种难以相处时，人类会…”。该题为细节题。由第一段第二句“Our usual solution is to kill off anything that get in our way.”可以看出人类通常的解决方法是消灭那些阻碍我们的东西。“wipe out”与“kill off”同义。

单选题 According to the writer, we communicate with animals in an attempt to______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[答案精解] 题干意为“根据文章，我们和动物交流是为了…”。该题为细节题。由第一段中“Our attempts to communicate with another species are concerned mainly with giving orders in our own language and haying them obeyed.”可以看出我们和其他物种交流主要是用我们的语言给它们命令，让它们遵守。

单选题 The writer implies that the shepherd-sheepdog whistle language is still biased because______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[答案精解] 题干意为“作者暗示牧羊人和牧羊犬之间的口哨始终是带有倾向的，原因是…”。该题为细节题。由第一段最后一句“Its only fault lies in fact that the bias is still there—the dog cannot whistle for the man.”可以看出这种倾向在于狗不能对人使用口哨，这只是一个单方向的交流方法。

单选题 Allen and Beatrice Gardener managed to communicate with the chimpanzee by______.

A、 training the chimpanzee to learn human language in an entirely new method
B、 creating a language both man and the chimpanzee were able to use
C、 using animal' s vocal language which the chimpanzee was able to understand
D、 learning the chimpanzee's language with an entirely new approach

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[答案精解] 题干意为“Allen和Beatrice Gardener试图通过…和黑猩猩交流”。该题为推理题。由第三段中“Alien和Beatrice Gardener have succeeded in doing this because...Past attempts to communicate with...use a vocal language.”可以看出他们使用的全新方法是以黑猩猩的天生能力为基础，过去交流失败的原因就是因为研究人员试图通过有声语言和动物交流。由此可以推断他们创造了一种人和黑猩猩都能使用的语言。

单选题 It can be inferred from the passage that______.

A、 in the future the chimpanzee can learn language like human beings
B、 in the past researchers taught a chimpanzee words of our natural language
C、 man and animals can get along well if they can communicate with each other
D、 the chimpanzee can communicate well with us human beings

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[答案精解] 题干意为“根据文章可以推断出....”。该题为推理题。文章第一段说明有史以来人类都不能与其他物种共同生活在一起。第二段“But now...”引出现在新的研究成果。第三段说明两个研究员用一种新的语言可以和一个黑猩猩很好地交流，由此可以推断作者认为如果可以交流人类能和其他动物融洽相处。