A.He is a perfect student. |
B.He is indifferent to everyone. |
C.He is different from his sisters. |
A.133. | B.157. | C.300. |
3 . New Caledonian crows are well-known for using different types of tools for preying (捕食) from tree holes and other hiding places. While they firmly hold their tools in the bill, they need to put them down to eat. This is when crows are at risk of losing their tools by accidentally dropping them or having them stolen by other crows.
In an earlier study, researchers in the UK had discovered that crows keep their tools safe when not needed, using one of two “safekeeping” strategies—they either securely hold them trapped underfoot, or temporarily put them into a nearby hole or behind bark. But are crows more careful when handling particularly valuable tools?
“Many of us will fuss (大惊小怪) about a brand-new phone, making sure it does not get scratched, dropped or lost. But we may handle an old phone with a cracked screen quite carelessly,” said lead author Barbara Klump from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany.
Crows at one of the team’s long-term study sites use two different kinds of stick tools: complex hooked tools and basic non-hooked tools. The former are painstakingly crafted from a relatively scarce plant species, while the latter are simply twigs (细枝) sourced from the forest floor. “Hooked tools are not only more costly to obtain, but they are also much more efficient,” explained Barbara Klump. “Depending on the foraging (觅食) task, crows can get prey with these tools up to ten times faster than with non-hooked tools.”
In their new study, the researchers now discovered that New Caledonian crows are more likely to keep valuable hooked tools safe between uses than the more basic non-hooked tools. “It was exciting to see crows are just a bit more careful with tools that are more efficient and more costly to replace. This suggests that they have some conception of the relative value’ of different tool types,” noted study co-author James St Clair.
This is the first study to investigate how animals handle and store tools of different kinds, providing a new way to measure how much they value these objects.
1. Why are phones mentioned in paragraph 3?A.To indicate the necessity of phones in our daily life. |
B.To emphasize people’s attachment to their old devices. |
C.To stress the similarity between humans and crows. |
D.To show people’s improper attitude to old things. |
A.It can be gotten easily. | B.It can be adjusted freely. |
C.It can make crows’ foraging more productive. | D.It can prevent crows from danger. |
A.Their secret hiding places. | B.Their unusual eating habits. |
C.Their creation of complex tools. | D.Their treatment of valuable tools. |
A.Crows Use Strategies to Gain Valuable Tools |
B.Crows Learn to Use Special Tools for Preying |
C.New Discovery of How Crows Make Tools |
D.New Caledonian Crows Keep Favorite Tools Safer |
“Look on the bright side” is one of those
In a study
The conclusion from the study is that for those at higher risk of depression, humor can develop an ability
5 . One day, off the coast of a small Brazilian island, Joao Pereira de Souza headed out fishing. He was disheartened to find that an oil leak had polluted the waters. Staring at the waves with oil, he decided it was not a good day to fish. But walking the beach that day, he found a struggling penguin(企鹅) ,covered in oil and starving. Pereira took the penguin home, gently cleaned it and spent the next week nursing it back to health. He named it Dindim.
Dindim is a Magellanic penguin, a species known for living in the seas of South America. In order to breed(繁殖) ,they must return to Patagonia,8,000 kilometers from Pereira’s home. Pereira patiently took Dindim back to the ocean and taught him how to swim again. Soon enough, it was time for Dindim to return to life in the wild. Pereira watched Dindim swim away, believing it would be the last time he saw him.
But the next June, Dindim returned and stayed for a month, walking around the fisherman’s house The time to leave arrived, and Pereira thought this surely would be the last time he would see Dindim. Bu 11 months later, the penguin with a long memory returned again
It is a common belief among scientists that animals have short memories. So a couple of them put tracking equipment on Dindim to see if it was indeed the same penguin that returned year after year. To their surprise, but not Pereira’s, Dindim returned, year after year, for more than a decade.
Love and nurture create a bond so deep that we can’t always explain it. It’s just something we feel, something we long to provide. And when we do, it lasts much longer than we ever expected. Pereira and Dindim share a bond that bridges human life and the natural world. Their friendship is the embodiment(化身)of hope
1. Why was Dindim in bad shape?A.It traveled too far. | B.Oil covered its body. |
C.The waves attacked it. | D.It was trapped in a net. |
A.He wished it healthy growth. | B.He was going to travel with it. |
C.He would never see it any more. | D.He should have made it stay with him. |
A.It had a long life of more than a decade. |
B.It was not the same penguin coming back every year. |
C.It found its home with the help of tracking equipment. |
D.It had a long memory of the location of Pereira’s home. |
A.Anxious. | B.Confident. |
C.Uncertain. | D.Astonished. |
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Have you wondered how your body knows when to wake up or why you need the toilet less at night? Influencing by light, body clocks use the sun to help your body to run on time. They repeat every 24 hours and almost every living thing has them. When the sun shines across the window in the morning, your body clock tells you it’s time to wake up. When it’s dark, your body feels sleepy. Not listening to your body clock, such as by going to bed late can mess up your sleep cycle, that makes you tired the next day. Scientists have found body clocks help our whole body run smooth. The Sleep Charity, which helps people to sleep better, recommend sticking to regular sleep patterns. So you’re a night owl who stays up late or a morning lark who likes to get up early, try going to bed and get up at the same time every day. It also suggests getting lots of natural lights in the morning. Even if the sky is cloudy and grey, this can reset your body clock and make you to feel more awake.
In Xixian county, located in Linfen, Shanxi province, a smart pear orchard (果园)
In this orchard, every pear is given
So far, Xixian
According to Wang, the platform not only helps with production but also promotes sales, as its tracking system can collect first-hand marketing feedback data. Pear farmers can learn about the market demand through the system to