单选题 Section A
Directions: In this section, there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers A, B, C and D.Choose the best answer and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

Passage One  

If you’ve ever hosted a mouse as a house guest, you know they can be incredibly clever at finding your food.And that makes sense.

“They had to become better in traits like problem solving because we became better at hiding our food from them.”
Anja Guenther is with the Max Planck Institute in Germany.She says that battle of the minds has made mice craftier over time.
“The longer the mice lived with humans, the better they are at problem-solving.”
You see, there are more than a dozen subspecies of house mice worldwide.And each began cohabitating with humans at different times in our evolutionary history.For example...
“Mus musculus domesticus.”
It began raiding human pantries around 12,000 years ago.
“Mus musculus musculus.”
Our relationship with them began some 8,000 years ago.
“And Mus musculus castaneus.”
It’s a relative newcomer who began cohabitating only 3,000 to 5,000 years ago.
And that spread in evolutionary life histories, with constituents from all three groups, gave Guenther’s team an opportunity.They gathered 150 mice—representing all three groups—and tested them with seven different food puzzles.Each puzzle was baited with a mealworm, which the mice could only get by pushing or pulling a lid, for example, or extracting a ball of paper from a tube or opening the window of a Lego house.
And they found that the longer a mouse variety had lived with humans, the more likely it was to solve these food puzzles.
“So, basically, what we are left at, with trying to explain these results that we see, is that the mice really developed higher enhanced cognitive abilities while living with humans.”
The results appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
As the human footprint on the globe expands, Guenther says it’s more important than ever to understand how we influence animal minds to learn why some creatures, like house mice, adapt— while others simply die out.What does “And that makes sense” refer to in the 1st paragraph?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】make sense意为“有道理的;讲得通的”。“And that make sense”中的that代指前文“the mouse can be incredibly clever at finding your food”,由此可知,认为老鼠寻找食物方面聪明这一观点是有道理的。因此A选项正确。B选项“认为老鼠聪明是无稽之谈”,显然是错误的。C选项“没有证据表明老鼠是聪明的”,与文章内容不符。D选项“老鼠在寻找食物方面出奇的聪明”,没有体现make sense的意思。