2019高考英语一轮达标Unit1Culturalrelics练题含解析新人教版必修2.docx

文档来源为 :从网络收集整理 .word 版本可编辑 .欢迎下载支持 . Cultural relics 李仕才 一、阅读理解 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项 (A、 B、 C和 D)中，选出最佳选项。 (2018 ·沈阳市下学期高三第三次模拟考试试题 ) Wild elephants can tell whether a voice comes from a man， a womanor a boy，a new study says.Thats what researchers found when they played recordings of people for elephants in Kenya.Scientists say this is an advanced thinking skill that other animals havent shown.It lets elephants figure out who is a threat and who isnt.The result shows that the clever animals are also studying people ， said study author Karen McComb. “ Basically ， they have developed this very rich knowledge of the humans that they share their habitat with ，” said McComb， a professor at the University of Sussex in England. “Memory is key.They must build up that knowledge somehow. ” The study was released on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Its close to but not quite like the Dr.Seuss book， where the elephant Horton hears something that others cant hear. McComband colleagues went to Amboseli National Park in Kenya， where hundreds of wild elephants live among humans， sometimes coming in conflict over scarce water.The scientists used voice recordings of Maasai men ， who on occasion kill elephants ， and Kamba men，who are less of a threat to the elephants. As a result ，the elephants reacted more defensively — retreating and gathering in a bunch — to the Maasai language recording because it was associated with the more threatening human tribe ，said study co-author Graeme Shannon. They repeated the experiment with recordings of Maasai men and women.Since women almost never spear elephants ， the animals reacted less defensively to the womens voices.The same thing happened when they substituted young boys voices. “Making this kind of fine distinctions in human voice patterns is quite remarkable ，” said Emory University animal cognition expert Frans de Waal ， who was not part of the study. 1． Who were the people taking part in t