Question

Scientist Without Laboratories

When you hear the word “scitentist”, what do you think of? Many people think scientist are people in clean white coats who work in labs. And some scientists do work in labs. But there are   26   scientist who work in woods and jungles. These scientists are called “animal behavior (行為) scientists”, and they study animals as they live in nature.

Why don’t these scientists catch animals and study them in zoos? The   27   is in the word “behavior”. Animals behavior scientists want to learn   28   animal behave in their wild homes. When animals live in cages (籠子) or in zoos, they do not act the same as they do when they are   29  . They may fight   30   each other, or they may not eat, or they may not raise (撫養) their babies as they usually would. To see real animal behavior, scitentists must go where the animals   31  .

So animal behavior scientists go into the jungles, the woods or the desert. There , their most important   32   are their eyes and ears. They watch and listen to the animals very   33  . They write down everything that happened in notebook.   34 

they live near the animals, the scientists are careful not to frighten them. If the scientists are luncky, the animals will   35   no attention to them. Then the scientists can see how the animals really live.

The behavior scientists hope what they’ve learned about animal behavoir can provide clues (提供線索) to help people learn to live together more happily.

26. A. another     B. other     C. others      D. the other

27. A. answer     B. question   C. problem    D. text

28. A. when       B. where     C. how       D. why

29. A. happy      B. free       C. sad        D. angry

30. A. of         B.among     C. for         D. with

31. A. live        B. run        C. play       D. eat

32. A. machines    B. tools       C. thoughts   D. ways

33. A. truly        B. carefully    C. woderfully D. nicely

34. A. But         B. Unless      C. Though   D. As if

35. A. pay         B. spend       C. take      D. cost

Answer 1

【主旨大意】文章介紹了人們所不熟知的另一種科學家---研究動物行為的科學家。文章介紹了他們為什么生活在森林里、叢林里的原因及他們的工作特點。

26. B another表示“再，又” other“另外的，其它的，別的” others“表示除去一部分以后的另一些，二不是剩下的全體” the other“表示一定范圍內出去一部分后其余的全體”

27. A 由上文“為什么這些科學家不把動物捉回來在動物園里研究”可知答案是。

28. C “科學家想了解動物在自然的家里是如何表現的。”

29. B  “當動物們生活在籠子里或動物園里，他們與在無拘無束情況下的表現是不一樣的。”

30. D  與……打架，fight …with

31. A “想了解動物真正的行為，科學家必須去動物生活的地方”

32. B 由下文的“聽、看動物”可知“他們最重要的工具是眼睛和耳朵”

33. B 為了了解動物的行為，必須“認真地觀察和聽動物。”

34. C “盡管科學家生活在動物附近，但他們盡量小心認真而不去嚇到動物們。”

35. A 固定短語pay attention to “注意”