新GRE阅读理解36套每日讨论--70（qq群178674184）

普渡哥 · 发表于 2011-12-6 20:07:59

Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following reading passage.

Typically the queen honeybee is mother to all the bees
in a hive; after mating with several male drones from
other colonies, she lays fertilized eggs that develop into
all-female worker bees and lays unfertilized eggs that
5 become all-male drones. According to natural selection
theory, a worker would enhance her fitness --or ability to
propagate her genes-by hatching her own eggs in addition
to or in place of the queen's. But a typical worker's fitness
would be diminished if other workers' sons, who have
10 less genetic material in common with the worker,
supplanted the queen's sons (the worker's brothers).
Researchers, testing the hypothesis that workers usually
somehow block each other's attempts to reproduce, put
unfertilized eggs laid by workers and by the queen into a
15 hive. Other workers quickly devoured the workers' eggs
while leaving the queen's eggs alone.

1. Select the sentence that is used as evidence that
workers worker bees are capable of thwarting each
other's attempts to reproduce.

2. The inner workings in a honeybee hive that regulate
reproduction, as they are described in the passage,
are most similar to which of the following
types of human societies?
(A) A totalitarian society in which citizens'
"policing" of each other's actions helps to
maintain the status quo.
(B) A pacifist state in which the individuals are
strongly opposed to the use of violence or
aggression to settle disputes.
(C) A democratic society in which the voice of the
majority rules.
(D) A parliamentary society in which a few members,
organized as a cabinet wield executive power.
(E) An anarchic state in which order and stable
social structures are lacking

3. The passage best supports which of the following
inferences about the fitness of honeybees?
(A) Reproduction diminishes any individual
honey-bee's fitness.
(B) An individual worker's fitness can be maintained
without the individual herself reproducing.
(C) A hierarchy of stronger and weaker
individuals among the worker bees
determines which individuals will reproduce
when a queen dies.
(D) While a queen reigns, the fitness of the
worker bees is increased and that of the
drones is diminished.
(E) Fitness encourages worker bees to hatch
honeybee eggs without regard for the
relatedness of the young to the "parent".

普渡哥 · 发表于 2011-12-7 08:30:42

大家快做啊！！

普渡哥 · 发表于 2011-12-8 09:46:09

大家快做啊，我好公布答案，出新题。。

普渡哥 · 发表于 2011-12-8 16:28:14

大家快做啊

普渡哥 · 发表于 2011-12-9 12:18:41

怎么没人做呢？

韩洋 · 发表于 2011-12-9 18:08:19

other workers
A E

普渡哥 · 发表于 2011-12-9 20:21:58

正确答案：
1. Other workers quickly devoured... 2. A 3. B

大家每天来做啊！

竹林中人 · 发表于 2011-12-9 21:51:49

关于本体的第三题的一点讨论结果，题目只能根据已有的信息来做，比如ｗｏｒｋｅｒ的ｆｉｔｎｅｓｓ不是靠自己繁殖来ｍａｉｎｔａｉｎ。这个是对的，我们不必追问他到底是怎么ｍａｉｎｔａｉｎ的。

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