1、五年高考练阅读理解(2017江苏,B,)Red-backed fairy wrens(鹪鹩),which live in northern and eastern Australia, lay three or four eggs at a time.Before birth, babies can tell the difference between loud sounds and voices. They can even distinguish their mothers voice from that of a female stranger. But When it comes t
2、o embryonic learning(胎教), birds could rule the roost. As recently reported in The Auk:Ornithological Advances, some mother birds may teach their young to sing even before they hatch(孵化). New-born chicks can then imitate their moms call within a few days of entering the world.This educational method
3、was first observed in 2012 by Sonia Kleindorfer, a biologist at Flinders University in South Australia, and her colleagues. Female Australian superb fairy wrens were found to repeat one sound over and over again while hatching their eggs. When the eggs were hatched,the baby birds made the similar ch
4、irp to their mothersa sound that served as their regular “feed me!” call.To find out if the special quality was more widespread in birds, the researchers sought the red-backed fairy wren, another species of Australian songbird. First they collected sound data from 67 nests in four sites in Queenslan
5、d before and after hatching. Then they identified begging calls by analyzing the order and number of notes. A computer analysis blindly compared calls produced by mothers and chicks, ranking them by similarity.It turns out that baby red-backed fairy wrens also emerge chirping like their moms. And th
6、e more frequently mothers had called to their eggs, the more similar were the babies begging calls. In addition, the team set up a separate experiment that suggested that the baby birds that most closely imitated their moms voice were rewarded with the most food.This observation hints that effective
7、 embryonic learning could signal neurological(神经系统的)strengths of children to parents. An evolutionary inference can then be drawn.“As a parent, do you invest in quality children, or do you invest in children that are in need?”Kleindorfer asks.“Our results suggest that they might be going for quality
8、.”1.distinguish vt.区分;辨别;分清2.imitate vt.模仿3.widespread adj.分布广的;普遍的;广泛的4.identify vt.确认;认出;鉴定1.The underlined phrase in Paragraph 1 means“”.A.be the worstB.be the bestC.be just as badD.be just as good2.What are Kleindorfers findings based on?A.Similarities between the calls of moms and chicks.B.The
9、observation of fairy wrens across Australia.C.The data collected from Queenslands locals.D.Controlled experiments on wrens and other birds.3.Embryonic learning helps mother birds to identify the baby birds which.A.can receive quality signalsB.are in need of trainingC.fit the environment betterD.make
10、 the loudest call五年高考练语篇解读本文是一篇科普类说明文。我们都知道母亲在怀孕期间对小宝宝进行胎教,但是你知道鸟类也会给自己还未孵化出的小宝宝进行胎教吗?请看澳大利亚生物学家的研究成果吧。1.B词义猜测题。根据画线部分后面的描述:一些鸟类在小鸟孵化出来前就开始教它们唱歌了,小鸟孵化出来后几天就能模仿自己母亲的叫声。由此推断出小鸟在这方面做得最棒,所以答案为B项。2.A推理判断题。根据第三段中的最后一句话可知,他们把雏鸟的叫声和母亲的叫声进行对比,根据相似度进行排名,由此可知他们的发现是以母亲和雏鸟叫声的相似度为依据的,所以答案为A项。3.C推理判断题。根据最后一段可知答案为C项。4
