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2025高考英语大二轮考前培优练C、D篇强化组合练eq\a\vs4\al\co1(培优练（二十）28分钟)

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(2023·广东第一次高考模拟)

Honeybeesunderstandthat“nothing”canbe“something”thathasnumericalmeaning,showingthattheyhaveaprimitivegraspoftheconceptofzero，accordingtoanewly－publishedstudyinScience.

Previousexperimentshaveshownthathoneybeeshavesomefacilityfornumbers,becausetheywereabletocountlandmarks(地标)astheysearchedaroundforasweetreward.Butinthesetests,theinsectscouldn’tcountveryhigh—onlytoaboutfour.Still,thatmaderesearchersinAustraliaandFrancewanttoexplorewhatelsethebeescoulddowithnumbers.

ScarlettHowardatRMITUniversityinMelbourneattractedbeestoawallwheretheywerepresentedwithtwosquarecards.Eachcardhadadifferentnumberofblacksymbols,suchasdotsortriangles.Howardtrainedonegroupofbeestounderstandthatsugarwaterwouldalwaysbelocatedunderthecardwiththeleastnumberofsymbols.“Theycouldcomeandseetwocirclesversus(与……相对)threecircles,orfourtrianglesversusonetriangle，”sheexplains.Thebeesquicklylearnedtoflytothecardwiththefewestsymbols.

Butthentheygotanothertest.Theresearcherspresentedthebeeswithacardthathadasinglesymbolandablankcard.Thebeesseemedtounderstandthat“zero”waslessthanone,becausetheyflewtowardtheblankcardmoreoftenthanexpectediftheywerechoosingatrandom.“Whenweshowedthemzeroversussix,theydidthatatamuchhigherlevelthanzeroversusone，”Howardsays.“Sowhatthattellsusisthattheyconsiderzeroasanactualquantityalongthenumberline.”

AuroreAvarguès－Weber，aresearcherfromtheUniversityofToulouse,pointsoutevenveryyoungchildrenhavetroubleunderstandingthatzeroisanumber.“It’seasyforthemtocountone,two,three,four,butzero,it’snotsomethingtocount，”sheexplains.What’smore,thebrainsofbeesareincrediblytinybrainscomparedwiththebrainsofhumans,scientistN