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This is the life of lab animals.
Now consider the needs of these animals. Chimpanzees(黑猩猩),in their natural homes, are never separated from their families. They spend hours together every day. But in a lab, chimpanzees are put in cages alone. There are no families, only cold, hard cages, and loneliness that goes on for so many years that most of them lose their minds at last.
Worse yet are the experiments. Animals are given diseases they would never normally get. Experimenters force-feed(给……强行喂食) chemicals to them, conduct repeated surgeries(手术),and much more, Think of what it would be like to put up with these and then be thrown back into a cage, usually without any painkillers. Often animals see other animals being killed right in front of them.
Hundreds of thousands of animals are poisoned, blinded, and killed every year in product tests for shampoos, skin creams and new cancer drugs. Although more than 500 companies have stopped testing on animals, some of them still force chemicals into monkeys’ stomachs and rabbits’ eyes.
Although some facilities are better than others at caring for animals—not every lab worker kills a mouse by cutting off its head with scissors—there are no happy animals inside laboratories. Will the lab life end? When will it end?
小题1:The passage mainly tells us about .
A.animals’ lives in laboratories |
B.cruel experiments on animals |
C.the needs of animals in labs |
D.facilities used to care for animals |
①are very cold, and in separate cages
②feel lonely locked inside a cage
③aren’t fed anything but chemicals
④are forced to undergo cruel tests
⑤are forced to eat chemicals
A.①③④ | B.②③⑤ | C.②④⑤ | D.①④⑤ |
A.some companies have found ways to replace animal tests |
B.animals normally get no strange diseases |
C.animals are happy in labs with better facilities |
D.painkillers can change the results of experiments |
A.positive | B.worried | C.satisfied | D.disappointed |
答案
小题1:A
小题1:C
小题1:A
小题1:B
解析
核心考点
试题【Imagine living locked inside a closet. You can’t choose when and what to eat or 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Patents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children.Some may be especially strict in money matters.Others are severe over times of coming home at night or punctuality for meals.In general, the controls imposed represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child’s own happiness.
As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parental teaching.To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality.Also, parents should realize that “example is better than precept”.If they are not sincere and do not practice what they teach, their children may grow confused, and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled.
A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents’ principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.
小题1:Eagerly watching the child’s acquisition of new skills _________.
A.should be avoided |
B.is universal among parents |
C.sets up dangerous states of worry in the child |
D.will make him lose interest in learning new things |
A.should encourage them to read before they know the meaning of the words they read |
B.should not expect too much of them |
C.should achieve a balance between pushing them too hard and leaving them on their own |
D.should create as many learning opportunities as possible |
A.parents should be strict with their children |
B.parental controls reflect only the needs of the parents and the values of the community |
C.parental restrictions vary, and are not always intended for the benefit of the children alone |
D.parents vary in their strictness towards their children according to the situation |
A.observe the rules themselves |
B.be aware of the marked difference between adults and children |
C.forbid things which have no foundation in morality |
D.consistently ensure the security of their children |
Put the chairs in a row. The chairs may be put in twos, back to back. A better way is to have the chairs in one row with each chair facing in the opposite direction to the chair next to it.
The game is easy. When the music starts, the players walk round the chairs. Everyone goes in the same direction, of course, they should walk in time to the music. If the music is fast they should walk quickly. If the music is slow, they should walk slowly.
The person playing music cannot see the people in the game. When the music stops, the players try to sit on the chairs. If a person cannot find a chair to sit on, he drops out. Then, before the music starts again, one chair must be taken away. When the music stops again, one more player will be out.. At last, there will be two players and one chair. The one who sits on the chair when the music stops is the winner.
小题1:If ten people are playing musical chairs,you must begin with _______.
A.nine chairs | B.ten chairs | C.eleven chairs | D.one chair |
A.A piano | B.A radio | C.A tape recorder | D.A telephone |
A.with the desks | B.before the winner | C.all over the room | D.in a line |
A.run about the room | B.get down |
C.walk around the chairs | D.sit on the chairs |
A.The game “Musical Chairs” is not difficult to learn. |
B.The last one can sit on the last chair. |
C.The winner can sit on the chair. |
D.If the person plays music, he cannot be the winner. |
Our Student Services Centre and the Students’ Union can offer the following:
● An advice service that is free and confidential.
● You’ll have a personal teacher in your department.
● A Peer Guide will welcome you to Bangor during your first week and answer any question you might have.
● Student Services and Security are on call during the day and there is a warden (管理人) on call at evenings and weekends at all our halls of residence.
● Personal support and advice on a variety of problems through the Students’ Union Welfare Advice Centre.
● Nightline, a confidential support service run during the night by students for students.
● A team of staff volunteers are available to deal with any serious incident which happens outside normal university hours.
● Health care in daily surgeries where you don’t need an appointment. You will need to register with a local General Practitioner (全科医师). We also have a nurse who can make visits to your place when necessary.
● An adviser for international students.
● A room where local postgraduate students who live at home and travel to the university each day, can spend their free time.
The university welcomes applications from disabled students and aims to provide equal opportunities for all. For more information please see our Student Services pages.
小题1:The passage is mainly about _______ at the University of Wales, Bangor.
A.health service and welfare | B.education and training |
C.the student service organizations | D.the daily life of students |
A.the care and support offered to students |
B.its super teachers and star students |
C.its attention to disabled students |
D.teaching quality and achievements |
A.a personal tutor can help you in your department |
B.Student Services and Security works around the clock |
C.you can ask for personal support and advice on a variety of problems |
D.a free career center can help you find a job |
A.show that the university treats all students equally |
B.inform students with disabilities about the university |
C.attract more students to the university to study |
D.introduce student organizations of the university |
The study looked at how dogs react when a companion is rewarded for the same trick in an unequal way. Friederike Range, a researcher at the University of Vienna in Austria, and her colleagues did a series of experiments with dogs who knew how to respond to the command “give the paw “. The dogs were normally happy to repeatedly give the paw, whether they got a reward or not. But that changed if they saw that another dog was being rewarded with a piece of food, while they received nothing.
“We found that the dogs hesitated significantly longer when obeying the command to give the paw,” the researchers write. The unrewarded dogs eventually stopped cooperating.
Scientists have long known that humans pay close attention to inequity. But researchers always assumed that animals didn’t share the trait. “The argument was that this is a uniquely human phenomenon,” says Frans de Waal, a professor of psychology at Emory University in Atlanta.
That changed in 2003 when he and a colleague did a study on monkeys. The monkeys had to hand a small rock to researchers to get a piece of cucumber in return. They were happy to do this. But if they saw that another monkey was getting a more delicious reward, a grape, for doing the same job, they would throw away the food and rock, and at some point just stopped performing.
In that experiment, the monkeys considered the fairness of two different types of payment. But when Range and her colleagues did a similar study with their trained dogs, testing to see if dogs would become upset if they only got dark bread when other dogs received sausage, they found that as long as the dogs got some kind of food payment, even if it wasn’t the most delicious kind, the animals would play along.
小题1:How did the dogs in Range’s study react to the order of “giving the paw”?
A.They took the order even without being rewarded. |
B.They took the order only when rewarded. |
C.They turned a deaf ear to repeated orders. |
D.They hesitated longer when given repeated orders. |
A.originated from Range’s research on dogs. |
B.showed that animals do pay attention to inequity. |
C.began the argument that only humans are aware of inequity. |
D.was conducted to find out how monkeys reacted to humans’ orders. |
A.was given less work. |
B.was given more food. |
C.was given the same type of food. |
D.was given more delicious food. |
A.care more about whether they are rewarded. |
B.care less about what they are rewarded with. |
C.care more about what they are ordered to do. |
D.care less about who gives them orders. |
A.Animals have various ways to show their anger. |
B.Dogs are less intelligent than monkeys. |
C.Dogs have a sense of fairness. |
D.Most animals want to be rewarded equally. |
Researchers say people do not observe this slow reduction in mental ability until the loss affects their everyday activities.
Denise Park led the new study. She directs the Centre for Aging and Cognition at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Her team studied more than 350 men and women between the ages of twenty and ninety years. The study identified people in their middle twenties with memory problems.
She says young adults do not know they are forgetting things because their brains have more information than they need.
But she says that people in their twenties and thirties are losing memory at the same rate as people in their sixties and seventies.
Ms. Park says people between the ages of sixty and seventy may note the decrease in their mental abilities. They begin to observe that they are having more trouble remembering and learning new information.
The study found that older adults are more likely to remember false information as being true. For example, they remembered false medical claims as being true. Younger people remembered hearing the information. But they were more likely to remember that it was false.
Ms. Park is now using modern imaging equipment to study what happens in the brains of people of different ages. She is studying what parts of the brain older adults use for different activities compared to younger adults. Ms. Park says mental performance is a direct result of brain activity and brain structure. She says keeping the brain active is important. She hopes future studies will identify ways to improve the operation of our aging minds.
小题1:The passage is meant to _____________.
A.emphasize the importance of exercising the brain |
B.analyze the difference between different age groups on the loss of memory |
C.reveal the decrease in mental ability of young adults as well as older adults |
D.introduce effective ways to improve memory |
A.they lose their memory at a slower rate |
B.they rarely realize they have memory problems |
C.their brains can store much more information |
D.all of the above |
A.Not until the loss of memory affects their daily activities, do people notice the decrease in their mental abilities. |
B.People begin to lose memory in their twenties. |
C.Older people tend to remember false information as being true. |
D.Younger people find it easier to remember the information that is proven false. |
A.mental performance can be improved |
B.mental ability is determined entirely by brain structure |
C.people of different ages use different parts of the brain for memorizing |
D.different parts of the brain are responsible for different mental activities |
A.The Mysterious Brain | B.The Ability to Forget |
C.Memory Reduction | D.Mental Performance |
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