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第16课 阅读理解? 网上的同学请注意！！！！ 我们从今天开始，讲议中的每篇课文都以两种形式出现。第一次未对文章及答案做任何注释，目的是希望同学们能够自己参与练习。第二次我们对文章用了不同颜色和字体做了标记以便同学们关注重点。请同学们根据自己的水平选择其中任意一篇听课。但我们希望同学们逐渐过度到没有经过注解的文章上来，并积极参与练习。另外请大家注意下载区，课件可在下载区下载，尽可能先下载自已做，然后再听课，不断总结经验教训。 孙老师拜托各位： 请网上的同学们在下载区下载。自己做一下。这一点非常重要！！！然后再听讲座，认真总结经验教训。 第十篇： Young Female Chimps Outlearn Their Brothers Young female chimps are faster and better learners than young male chimps, suggests a new study1, echoing learning differences seen in human girls and boys2. While young male chimps pass their time playing, young female chimps carefully study their mothers. As a result, they learn how to fish for3 tasty termite snacks over two years before the boys. Elizabeth Lonsdorf, now at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, US, and colleagues at the University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, spent four years watching how young chimpanzees in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania4 learned “cultural behavior.” The sex differences in learning behavior were “consistent and strikingly apparent”, says the team. The researchers point out that similar differences are seen in human children with regard to5 skills such as writing. “A sex-based learning differences may therefore date back6 at least to the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans,” they write in the journal Nature. Chimps make flexible tools from vegetation and then insert them into termite mounds, extract them and then munch the termites clinging onto the tool. The researchers used video cameras to record this feeding behavior and found that each chimp mother had her own technique, such as how she used tools of different lengths. Analysis of the six infants whose ages were known showed that girl chimps were an average of 31 months old when they succeeded in fishing out their termites, where the boy chimps were aged 58 months on average. Females were also more skillful at getting out more termites with every dip7 and used techniques similar to their mothers while males did not. Instead of studying their mothe