2021年度山西大学英语考试考前冲刺卷（4）新整理版.doc

山西大学英语考试考前冲刺卷（4） 本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。 严格遵守考试纪律，维护考试秩序！ 一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.Man finds living together with his own species(物种)difficult enough and living together with other species almost impossible. Our usual solution is to kill off anything that get in our way. Even on those rare occasions when we do enter into a relationship with another species, it is heavily biased(带有倾向)in our favor. The other species benefits only when it suits our own interests. Our attempts to communicate with another species are concerned mainly with giving orders in our own language and having them obeyed Probably our best attempt has been the whistle language that is used in the shepherd-sheepdog relationship. This is a system that is natural to neither species, but one that both can understand. Its only fault lies in fact that the bias is still there--the dog cannot whistle for the man.But now comes news of a piece of research that promises, for the first time, to open up two-way communication between man and another species.At the University of Nevada in the western United States, animated(活跃的)conversations are being held with a young female chimpanzee (黑猩猩)called Washoe. Allen and Beatrice Gardener have succeeded in doing this because they have used an entirely new approach, an approach based on the natural abilities of the chimpanzee. Past attempts to communicate with chimpanzees have failed because the researchers tried to make their animals use a vocal language. Allen and Beatrice Gardener managed to communicate with the chimpanzee by（）. A．training the chimpanzee to learn human language in an entirely new methodB．creating a language both man and the chimpanzee were able to useC．using animal’ s vocal language which the chimpanzee was able to understandD．learning the chimpanzee’s language with an entirely new approach 参考答案：B 题干意为“Allen和Beatrice Gardener试图通过…和黑猩猩交流”。该题为推理题。由第三段中“Alien和Beatrice Gardener have succeeded in doing this because...Past a