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2009年考研英语真题注释+答案解析 （中英文对照版） Research on animal intelligence always makes me wonder just how smart humans are. 1 Consider“考虑” 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 2 tend to do表示“有…倾向，往往…” to live shorter lives. This suggests that 3 dimmer比较暗淡的 bulbs burn longer, that there is an 4 advantage优势 in not being too terrifically bright. Intelligence, it 5 turns out证明是 out, is a high-priced option. It takes more upkeep, burns more fuel and is slow 6 off离开 the starting line because it depends on learning — a 7 gradual渐进的学习是一个渐进的过程 process — instead of instinct. Plenty of other species are able to learn, and one of the things they’ve apparently learned is when to 8 stop 停止文的主旨是智力需要昂贵的代价。大量的物种会学习，但它们首先学会的是知道什么时候停止学习，与上文的例子灯泡呼应。 .对观点（聪明是要付出代价的）展开论述。 Is there an adaptive value to 9 limited有限的 intelligence? That’s the question behind this new research. I like it. Instead of casting a wistful glance 10 backward“回顾”cast a glance backward“回顾”，固定搭配。 at all the species we’ve left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real 11 cost代价智力是要付出代价 of our own intelligence might be. This is 12on（考查介词，on the mind of“为…着想” the mind of every animal I’ve ever met.智力的有限性是否有一个适应值？人类智力的真正代价是什么？ Research on animal intelligence also makes me wonder what experiments animals would 13 perform“做实验” on humans if they had the chance. Every cat with an owner, 14 for instance例如 , is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning. we believe that 15 if（虚拟语气） animals ran the labs, they would test us to 16 “determine决定，确定” the limits of our patience（n.耐心，耐性； 忍耐 ）, our faithfulness(n.忠诚，正确，诚实； 忠忱； 忠心 ), our memory for terrain. They would try to decide what intelligence in humans is really 17 for 表示目的这个句子的正常句序是intelligence in humans is really for what. , not merely how much of it there is. 18 Above all最重要 , they would hope to study