【每日阅读训练第四期——速度越障17系列】【17-18 】科技

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占了个座！


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Speed
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the rest 01'50

Obstacle
08'34

Main idea: Big test fot Zola, a crow that has the chance to "prove" animals' human insight, turns out to be a disappointment for human----the crows simply don't act in human sense.
Attitude: Positive(+)
Structure:
>>>Introduction of the central topic: Zola, a crow is facing a huge challenge----a well-designed experiment to find out the "human sense" in its way of thinking.
In the test, the crow tried remarkably different way from other animals to get the meat hanging on the string and looked quite human-like. The whole discovery made the scientists very excited and crave for more evidence to support this plausible theory.
>>>Usual comments and expectations: Usually people get excited from this test result because we'd like to think animals can think and act just like us. But there's usually a rollar coaster afterwards with some "expert" standing out and claiming another whole different theory that could also explain the animal's human-like behavior and turn out to be a "happy coincidence". Then we get straight back to disappointment and stuck on the process to find out more.
>>>Researchers won't give up this time: The researchers do not want to back down this time and try all the possible ways to find out the "aha" moment when a crow solves its problem. They designed more experiments and carried them out with enthusiasm. The crow still showed promising behaviours in the first test. But when they change the experiment with a dangling string, holding the meat in the centre of it. The poor bird "completely failed".
>>>Conclusion----This is what we've got: Eventually, the researchers conclude that in the experiment, the crows didn't act in the human sense, but were driven by the sense of concentration. When they get a positive response, they tended to carry on with what they were doing until they finally got the treat.

下面这段原文的概括和分析写的很好，逻辑感比较强，很喜欢这种写法！
回忆的时候一直在想这段是怎么说的……
【After seeing all this, the researchers proposed that Zola and the other crows had solved the first test — the perch with the hanging string — not by insight in the human sense, but through an enhanced ability to pay attention. New Caledonian crows, which do have relatively large brains for their body size, may be able to notice and absorb in detail the consequences of what they’re doing. Reaching down to grab the dangling string isn’t a big change from normal poking and exploring. And when the meat rises a bit, the birds absorb the positive feedback and take another step-pull.】

that’s not a miracle, just a small tweak in cognition.



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保持队形！！！！！

枣糕兔

2012Michelle 发表于 2013-4-22 23:43
兔兔那个保持队形分割线把我笑惨了，大半夜的。

PS，队友们都很给力，难为我 为老不尊 地逗猴猴，太欢乐 ...

哈哈哈哈发完作业发现还差个队形！于是就滚去加上了_(:3 J  L)_
大米是大家做阅读的mentor啊！不要谦虚啦~！
大家一起加油！

枣糕兔

2012Michelle 发表于 2013-4-23 13:36
哈哈，我也是来保持队形并交作业的。上猴头~

顺便说，越障的内容挺多，但逻辑结构跟G的文很像 ...

嗯对啊！
读起来也挺有意思的，我们确实常常被一些human like的动物行为惊喜到，然后觉得它们其实跟人一样聪明神马的……很有意思的文章！最后那段也写的超棒，意思表达得很贴切~

好文章，看大米！【。哈哈