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阅读理解专项训练（53）2022届高考英语复习 高考英语阅读训练.第PAGE 1页(共6页) ★A 阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案. Dogs may not seem terribly bright when they’re chasing their own tails, but in many ways they are clever creatures. In particular, they are very socially aware, both of humans and of each other. Many studies have reported that they can sense human emotions. Recent research has found that they can tell the difference between happy and angry faces, and even show jealousy. It now seems that they can sense when a person is untrustworthy. Once a dog has decided a person is unreliable, it stops following the cues they give. It’s been known for years that dogs understand what it means when a human points at something. If a dog’s owner points to the location of a ball, stick or food, the dog will run and explore the location the person is pointing to. A study published in the journal?Animal Cognition?presented 34 dogs with three rounds of pointing. In the first round, the experimenters accurately pointed to where food was hidden in a container. But in the second round, they pointed to an empty container. In the third round, the same experimenter again pointed to the container with food. But now the dog did not respond to the experimenter’s cue. That suggests that the dogs could use their experience of the experimenter to assess whether they were a reliable guide. After these rounds a new experimenter replicated the first round. Once again, the dogs followed this new person with interest. Researchers say they were surprised that the dogs “devalued the reliability of a human” so quickly. “Dogs have more sophisticated social intelligence than we thought. This social intelligence evolved selectively in their long life history with humans.” The next step, they say, will be to test closely related species such as wolves. This would then reveal the “profound effects of domestication” on the social intelligence of dogs.? And if they consistently don’t know what’s going to happen next they can get