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2009年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题Section I Use of English 必须做忠实的读者，忠于作者，揣摩坐着的思想；如果你抱着批评的眼光则必然失败； 考试的现实是------选拔，PK！100分，分分都重要！ Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) Research on animal intelligence always makes me wonder just how smart humans are. 1 the fruit-fly experiments described in Carl Zimmer’s piece in the Science Times on Tuesday. Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly 2tend to live shorter lives. This suggests that 3 bulbs burn longer, that there is an 4 in not being too terrifically bright. Intelligence, it 5 out, is a high-priced option. It takes more 保养费用upkeep, burns more fuel 暗喻and is slow 6 the starting line 起跑线because it depends on learning — a 7 — instead of instinct. Plenty of other species绝指其它动物 are able to learn, and one of the things they’ ve现在完成时 apparently learned is when to 8 stop .（早就知道沧海无涯，回头是岸----智力不发育了。） Is there an adaptive value适应值 to 9 intelligence?问句开首，吸引读者 That’s the question behind this new research.时态的暗示（谓语动词的暗示是最重要的暗示） I like it. Instead of替代性的转折 casting a wistful glance 10 at all the species we’ve left定语从句用现在完成时，过去的动作，决定向后看 in the dust I.Q.-wise, it指代 implicitly asks what the real 11 of our own intelligence might be. This is 12on the mind of every animal I’ve ever met. Research on animal intelligence also makes me wonder what experiments animals would 13 on humans if they had 虚拟条件句the chance. Every cat with an owner应为首句的例证, 14for（example） , is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning. we believe that 15if animals ran the labs, 1they would 虚拟条件句test us to 16determine the limits of our patience, our faithfulness, our memory for terrain并列做介词的宾语. 2They would try to decide what intelligence in humans is really 17 for （what）,参看上一句 not merely how much of it there is. 18above all , 3they would hope to study a 19 question: 冒号后面表同位说明Are humans actually