复合题

Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

Text 2

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 all the wing with unparalleled skill, they can navigate in a remarkable manner half round the world and back—but they cannot think mad 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 oil 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, all 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 put 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 _______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】第一段第二句指出可知鸟儿能以非凡的方法航海， 飞过半个世界还能返回。 remarkable卓越的， 非凡的。 inheritance 继承， 遗产。 insight洞察力。 intelligence智力。
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】由“In technical terms it can be said that they are lacking in insight. …on the other hand, can reason”可知， 猴子比其他生物（除了人以外） 高级的是它们能推理。 B项推理和思考符合题意。 A项“拥有大脑”， 其他动物也有大脑， 不符合题意。 C项“记忆力”只是推理能力中包含的一方面。 由第二段中“Their minds cannot cope with abstract ideas.”可知猴子不能处理抽象思维， D项错误。
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】由第一段“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.”可知， 猴子能想出一套办法来得到香蕉， 即通过堆叠箱子， 站在上面， 并用一根棍子敲打香蕉。 可知D项“用自己的方式解决问题”正确。
单选题 Monkeys are differentiated from man because they lack our ability to ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】由第二段“Their minds cannot cope with abstract ideas”可知猴子不能处理抽象思维。 B项“理解抽象思维”正确。
单选题 Kobler’s monkey is “charming” because the monkey _____.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】由第一段“A charming story is told about the psychologist Wolfgang Kobler,…jumped up oil to his shoulder and reached it down from there.”可知猴子的可爱迷人是因为它们能想到让Kobler站在香蕉下面， 通过跳上他的肩膀来拿到香蕉。 A项“选择Kobler为捷径”， 符合题意。