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 a relationship with other species, it is heavily biased (带有倾向) in our favor. The other species benefit only when they suit 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 under stand. 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 champanzee. Past attempts to communicate with chimpanzees have failed because the researchers tried to make their animals use a local 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】细节题。由第一段第二句“Our usual solution is to kill off anything that get in our way.”“wipe out”与“kill off”同义，“消灭”。
单选题 According to the writer, we communicate with animals in an attempt to ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】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 having 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】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，这只是一个单方面的交流方法。
单选题 Allen and Beatrice Gardener managed to communicate with the chimpanzee by ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】推理题。由第三段中“Allen and Beatrice Gardener have succeeded in doing this because... Past at tempts to communicate with... use a local 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猩猩都能使用的语言。
单选题 It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】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，由此可以推断如果可以交流，人类就能和其他动物融洽相处。