2018年高考英语一轮总复习 第一部分 重点全程攻略 Unit 4 Body language限时规范特训 新人教版必修4.docVIP

Unit 4 Body language Ⅰ.阅读理解(建议用时16′) A [2017·湖南岳阳阶段考试]Very mobile ears help many animals direct their attention to the rustle of a possible attacker. Researchers say these mobile ears have become a useful communication tool. Their studies of animal behaviour build up a picture of how communication and social skills developed. “Were interested in how they communicate，” said lead researcher Jennifer Wathan. “And being sensitive to what another individual is thinking is a fundamental skill from which other more complex skills develop.” Ms Wathan and her colleague Prof Karen McComb set up a behavioural experiment where 72 individual horses had to use visual clues from another horse in order to choose where to feed. They led each horse to a point where it had to select one of two buckets. On a wall behind this Decision-making spot was a life-sized photograph of a horses head facing either to left or right. In some of the trials， the horses ears or eyes were covered. If the ears and eyes of the horse in the picture were visible， the horses being tested would choose the bucket towards which its gaze and its ears were directed. If the horse in the picture had either its eyes or its ears covered, the horse being tested would just choose a feed bucket at random. Like many mammals that are hunted by predators (捕食者), horses can rotate (旋转) their ears through almost 180 degrees—but Ms Wathan said that in our “human-centric” view of the world, we had overlooked the importance of these very mobile ears in animal communication. “It seems theres something in the visual clues—from both the eyes and the ears—that are really important，” she told BBC News. “Horses have quite rich social lives and relationships with other horses, so theyre a good species to look at this in.” And the more we look at communication across different species, the more we can consider what might have promoted the evolution of sophisticated communication and social skills. 篇章导读：本文是一篇说明文，通过研究动物的交流方式，研究人员们发