1 . It may sound a bit ^“Dr. Doolittle,” but it turns out kangaroos can communicate with humans. Researchers found that kangaroos communicated with humans “on purpose”--a behavior that was thought to only belong to domesticated(驯养的)animals, like dogs, horses or goats.

Experts from London's University of Roehampton and the University of Sydney set up a task. This task was known as “the unsolvable problem task”・ During the task, they presented kangaroos with food trapped inside a plastic container.

After trying, and failing, to open the boxes, the kangaroos turned their gaze(注视)on a nearby human - and sometimes even pushed or scratched(抓) them to ask for help, researchers said.

“Their gaze was pretty powerful, co-author Alexandra Green said. "We've previously thought only domesticated animals try to ask for help with a problem. But kangaroos do it too. If they can't open the box, they look at the human and back to the container. Some of them use their nose to push the human and some get close to the human and start scratching at him asking for assistance.^,,

Based on these new findings, the team believe kangaroos - considered social animals, like dogs and goats --may be able to change their behavior to interact with humans.

“Through this study, we are able to see that communication between animals can be learnt and that the behaviour of gazing at humans to get food is not related to domestication lead author Alan McElligott said.

^“Indeed, kangaroos showed a very similar pattern of behaviour we have seen in dogs, horses and even goats when put to the same test,“ McElligott added.

1. What have the researchers found about kangaroos?

A．Kangaroos can become domestic animals.

B．Kangaroos can communicate with humans.

C．Kangaroos can learn from domestic animals.

D．Kangaroos have the same habits as domestic animals.

2. What does the underlined word “trapped“ mean in Paragraph 2?

A．Removed.

B．Hidden.

C．Kept.

D．Saved.

3. What are the researchers’ findings based on?

A．Observations.	B．Previous data.
C．Making comparison.	D．Making a survey.

4. In which part of a newspaper is this text most probably taken from?

A．Travel.

B．Education.

C．Technology.

D．Science.

2 . You know that thrill you get when listening to your favorite music or that exciting feeling down your spine (脊柱) when you hear your favorite melody or rhythm? According to a recent study, it seems the same thing can happen while you are reading, but not with every kind of text. This opens up fascinating questions around how music, reading and emotions are connected in the brain.

“We decided we would do a comparison between four or five different kinds of texts to see how the brain responded,” explains Professor Adam Zeman, a neurologist. “The participants lay in an MRI scanner reading the texts, and then we compared brain activity for those five texts.” The texts ranged from deadly boring ones to highly exciting ones, including the Highway Code, passages from novels and poems.

As the researchers observed, participants found some texts more emotional than others. When they read these emotional texts, there was higher activity in brain areas associated with pleasure and reward — the same areas related to the thrill we get when we listen to music. As Zeman says, “It was a nice proof that the emotional response to literature and to music has quite a bit in common.”

When the participants were reading poems, the team found there was more activity in a particular group of brain areas called the Default Network. "These areas seem to be associated with things we do with our minds when we are resting, like thinking about what's happened to us recently, thinking about what’s going to happen in the near future, about other people, and that network seems to be more strongly associated with poetry than with prose” explains Zeman. The study shows that the different texts activate different areas of our brains when we read.

1. What can we know from the study?

A．People may feel excited when reading poems.	B．People aren’t thrilled when listening to music.
C．Music gives participants more pleasure than text.	D．Deadly boring texts never excite the brain.

2. What is the purpose of the comparison between different kinds of texts?

A．To thrill the participants.	B．To scan the participants’ brain.
C．To check the response of human's brain.	D．To teach the participants novels and poems.

3. What happened in the participants’ brains when they were reading?

A．Their brains preferred music.

B．Brain areas related to pleasure became more active.

C．Their emotional response to literature stopped.

D．Their brains were less emotional when reading the emotional text.

4. Where is the text probably from?

A．A science magazine.	B．A film review.
C．An advertisement.	D．A science fiction.