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个人收集整理资料， 仅供交流学习， 勿作商业用途 2018 高考英语阅读理解精英训练题18）及答案 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。 A） It is easy for us to tell our friends from our enemies ．But can other animals do the same? Elephants can! They can use their sense of vision and smell to tell the difference between people who pose a threat and those who do not．b5E2RGbCAP In Kenya, researchers found that elephants react differently to clothing worn by men of the Maasai and Kamba ethnic groups ．Young Maasai men spear animals and thus pose a threat to elephants 。 Kamba men are mainly farmers and are not a danger to elephants．p1EanqFDPw In an experiment conducted by animal scientists, elephants were first presented with clean clothing or clothing that had been worn for five days by either a Maasai or a Kamba man ．When the elephants detected the smell of clothing worn by a Maasai man, they moved away from the smell faster and took longer to relax than when they detected the smells of either clothing worn by Kamba men or clothing that had not been worn at all．DXDiTa9E3d - 1 - / 22 个人收集整理资料， 仅供交流学习， 勿作商业用途 Garment color also plays a role, though in a different way ．In the same study, when the elephants saw red clothing not worn before, they reacted angrily, as red is typically worn by Maasai men ．Rather than running away as they did with the smell, the elephants acted aggressively toward the red clothing]RTCrpUDGiT The researchers believe that the elephants’ emotional reactions are due to their different interpretations of the smells and the sights ．Smelling a potential danger means that a threat is nearby and the best thing to do is run away and hide ．Seeing a potential threat without its smell means