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The first experiments 1 teaching chimps to communicate successfully with human beings began in 1966, 2 two American scientists, R. Allen Gardner and his wife Beatrice, started 3 a chimp called Washoe. Together with their assistants, the Gardeners always “spoke” to Washoe (and to each other when they were in her 4 ) in Asian-American sign language, used by the 5 in the United States. Asian uses 6 to represent words or phrases, 7 some other sign her sign languages in which movements of the hand or fingers represent 8 letters of the alphabet which slowly build up into words. 9 , Asian can be a rapid means of communication. The Gardeners found that Washoe not only understood Asian, 10 soon became adept 11 using it. More important, she was able to use it in a 12 way for example having learned the 13 for “open”, she could apply it in different situations. This was one of the first glimpses of the 14 ability of chimpanzees that they can 15 certain concepts in a general manner and then use them in 16 instances. Other researchers have taught chimpanzees to use compli cated “languages”,17 on colored shapes or computer keys. They 18 have discovered t hat there is nothing wrong with the chimpanzee’s19 apparatus. Just before Christmas 1974, it was reported from the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Centre, in Atlanta, Georgia, that Lana, a chimpanzee adept at

using a computer keyboard language called “Yerkish”, had started to ask20 the names of objects.

1. [A] of [B] about[C] in[D] on

2. [A] that [B] when [C] which[D] what

3. [A] rearing [B] buying [C] selling [D] making

4. [A] place[B] eyesight [C] mind [D] presence

5. [A] deaf[B] blind[C] handicapped[D] limped

6. [A] movements[B] language [C] gestures [D] knowledge

7. [A] like[B] unlike [C] as[D] following

8. [A] all [B] separate [C] individual[D] alone

9. [A]Consequently[B] Furthermore[C] Moreover [D] Eventually

10. [A] and[B] as [C] again [D] but

11. [A] at[B] for [C] with[D] to

12. [A] formal [B] informal [C] imaginable [D] creative

13. [A] signal [B] symbol[C] signature[D] meaning

14. [A] intellectual [B] practical [C] intellect [D] reasoning

15. [A] guess [B] solve [C] possess [D] handle

16. [A] particular [B] ordinary[C] especial[D] strange

17. [A] based[B]located [C] set[D] obtained

18. [A] all[B] but [C] too [D] again

19. [A] mental[B] physical [C] logical[D] conceptual

20. [A] for [a] in [C] to [D] with

【答案解析】

1.【答案】C

【解析】惯用法题。experiment in sth.进行…实验；experiment on sth.对…进行实验。这里讲的是“对教授黑猩猩与人类进行成功交流进行试验”，应选C。

2.【答案】B

【解析】语法题。考察定语从句；很明显此处需要一个非限制性定语从句修饰1966，因此选when，相当于in which(1966)。

3.【答案】A

【解析】词义辨析题。rear培育；buy买；sell卖；make制作。根据题意，应选A。

4.【答案】D

【解析】惯用法题。in sb.’s presence(在……面前，当着……的面)是固定搭配。

5.【答案】A

【解析】逻辑关系题。前面提到sign language（手语），所以是聋哑人使用的。故选A。

6.【答案】C

【解析】词义辨析题。movement 运动，运转；language 语言；gestur手势；knowledge知识。根据前面的sign language（手语），故选C。

7.【答案】B

【解析】逻辑关系题。此句意为：Asian用手势代表单词或词组，而不是像其他一些手势语，用手或手指运动代表字母表中一个个的字母，再慢慢地拼成单词。可见，这两种手势是不一样的，故选B。

8.【答案】C