问答题
For 25 years now, Jane Goodall has been studying chimpanzees in the wild, at Gombe in Tanzania. After ten years, she wrote her best-selling book, In The Shadow Of Man, chronicling her research until then. But if she had stopped there she would have left the world with a misleadingly benign (温和的) view of chimpanzees.
Starting in the early seventies, Jane Goodall and her researchers were horrified to observe a prolonged, deliberate and planned warfare by one group of chimpanzees upon another group which had broken away some years previously. It fundamentally altered her perception of chimp society as ordered and peaceable.
Her most startling discovery in her early years was that chimps use tools. Until then, paleoanthropologists made sharp distinctions between tool users and non-tool users, to differentiate between men and monkeys. She documented and photographed chimps taking long sticks, poking them into termite holes, and extracting the termites on the sticks in order to eat them.
At the same time she and other researchers discovered that chimps are the only animals, apart from humans, to be self-aware. At its most primitive level this can be demonstrated by sticking something on a chimp"s forehead and showing him a mirror. The chimp will immediately recognize himself and pull the object off his forehead. Other animals will paw at the mirror and fail to recognize themselves, let alone rearrange themselves according to the image in the mirror. They also have a structured language with abstract concepts.
Starting in the early seventies, Jane Goodall and her researchers were horrified to observe a prolonged, deliberate and planned warfare by one group of chimpanzees upon another group which had broken away some years previously. It fundamentally altered her perception of chimp society as ordered and peaceable.
Her most startling discovery in her early years was that chimps use tools. Until then, paleoanthropologists made sharp distinctions between tool users and non-tool users, to differentiate between men and monkeys. She documented and photographed chimps taking long sticks, poking them into termite holes, and extracting the termites on the sticks in order to eat them.
At the same time she and other researchers discovered that chimps are the only animals, apart from humans, to be self-aware. At its most primitive level this can be demonstrated by sticking something on a chimp"s forehead and showing him a mirror. The chimp will immediately recognize himself and pull the object off his forehead. Other animals will paw at the mirror and fail to recognize themselves, let alone rearrange themselves according to the image in the mirror. They also have a structured language with abstract concepts.
问答题
How long ago did Goodall write her book?
【正确答案】
【答案解析】15 years ago[解析] 第一段提到25年前，Jane Goodall开始研究黑猩猩，10年后她写出了In The Shadow Of Man这本书，也就是说这本书是15年前写的。
问答题
How did the "warfare" change Goodall"s opinion of chimp society?
【正确答案】
【答案解析】Fundamentally[解析] 第二段提到猩猩之间的战争时提到It fundamentally altered her perception of chimp society as ordered and peaceable，由此可得答案。perception认识，观念。
问答题
What"s the purpose of the reference to "long sticks"?
【正确答案】
【答案解析】To prove that chimps use tools.[解析] 第三段提到Goodall最令人吃惊的发现是猩猩会使用工具，接下来以猩猩用长棍取白蚁为例证明此发现。
问答题
If you stick something on a chimp"s forehead and show him a mirror, how will he react?
【正确答案】
【答案解析】He"ll recognize himself and pull the object off his forehead,[解析] 倒数第二段提到当你在猩猩的额头上贴个东西并拿镜子给他照时，他会立即认出自己并把额头上的东西扯掉。
问答题
What did some of the chimps in the northern group enjoy doing?
【正确答案】
【答案解析】seeking out danger[解析] 最后一段提到她观察到...many of them, ..., took deliberate pleasure in seeking out danger, by..., take pleasure in以…为乐，喜欢。deliberate故意的。