Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1 ? In boxes 8-13 on your answer sheet, writeTRUE if the statement agrees with the informationFALSE if the statement contradicts the informationNOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
单选题
Primates are better at identifying the larger of two numbers if one is much bigger than the other.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析：The first paragraph says 'rhesus monkeys and university students ... had to decide which set contained more objects. ... monkeys, like humans, make more errors when two sets of objects are close in number'; primates are defined in the second paragraph: 'Humans and monkeys are mammals, in the animal family known as primates.'
单选题
Jurgen Tautz trained the insects in his experiment to recognise the shapes of individual numbers.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：The fifth paragraph says 'the number of shapes[= how many shapes, not the actual shape of individual numerals]'.
单选题
The research involving young chicks took place over two separate days.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】解析：Although the sixth paragraph says 'If chicks spend their first few days surrounded by certain objects', this is a general statement, not how long the experiment lasted; 'three-and four-day-old chicks' tells us the age of the chicks, but it does not say that the experiment took place on two days; we do not know whether it was repeated on more than one day.
单选题
The experiment with chicks suggests that some numerical ability exists in newborn animals.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析：The sixth paragraph says that these were almost newborn 'three- and four-day-old chicks' and that they 'scuttled[= ran]to the larger quantity at a rate well above chance. They were doing some very simple arithmetic, claim the researchers'.
单选题
Researchers have experimented by altering quantities of nectar or fruit available to certain wild animals.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】解析：Although the last paragraph says 'Animals on the prowl... decide which tree has the most fruit, or which patch of flowers will contain the most nectar' and that this would be an 'obvious advantage[s]of numeracy', we are not told whether any researchers have carried out experiments involving the animals searching for these foods.
单选题
When assessing the number of eggs in their nest, coots take into account those of other birds.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析：The last paragraph says 'female coots appear to calculate ... and add any in the nest laid by an intruder[= another bird]'.