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test1-123
Capuchin monkeys have been observed
using tools in a broad variety of contexts, but their
use of tools had been limited to the application of a
single type of tool to solve a specific problem. In
a recent study, however, researchers observed
caged capuchins using a tool set, which is defined
as different types of objects used sequentially to
achieve a goal.
123.The word contexts in the passage is
closest in meaning to
settings
choices
behaviors
objects
正確答案為A,我查字典,果然context和settings有一樣的意思為背景,但我再原文的第七行發現好像有同義替代字objects
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test2-26
26. Look at the word they in the
passage. Click on the word in the
bold text that this word refers to.
Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania is
renowned for its prehistoric sites, which include
small lakeside locations used by early humans for a
few days or weeks before they moved on in their
constant search for game, vegetable foods, and fish.
Answer是humans嗎?
Test2-30
30. Look at the word jumbled in the
passage. Click on the word in the
bold text that is similar in meaning.
Fortunately for archaeologists, the early hunters
and gatherers abandoned food bones and tools where
they dropped them. In Olduvai, the gently rising
waters of a prehistoric lake slowly covered the bone
caches and preserved them for posterity, with the
tools lying where they had fallen. Other ancient
people lived by the banks of large rivers. Their tools
are found in profusion in the gravel of riverbeds that
were subsequently jumbled and re-sorted by
floodwater, leaving a confused mass of artifacts,
rather than undisturbed floors of former dwellings for
archaeologists to uncover.
Answer是confused嗎
Test2-81
81. Click on the sentence in the passage
that implies that early censuses did
not include the entire population.
Answer是Established in 1790, the United States census
is the oldest continuous periodic census done by a
nation and has served as a model for the institution
elsewhere
原文
There was no known public national census
anywhere before the eighteenth century. Any figures
indicating a nation's military and economic power were
guarded as state secrets, like the maps of newly
discovered passages through dangerous waters to
distant ports. The ancient population counts among
the Egyptians, Greeks, Hebrews, Persians, Romans,
and Japanese were apparently aimed toward taxable
people and property, and men of military age. A
different kind of accounting was the goal in the earliest
recorded comprehensive census of a population and
its food supply, which was taken in Nuremberg,
Germany, in 1449, when the town was threatened by a
siege. The town council ordered a full count of all the
mouths to be fed and an inventory of the food supply,
but the results were kept secret and did not become
public until two centuries later.
Public numbers are a modern by-product of
new ways of thinking about government, wealth, and
security. Representative governments have required
periodic public censuses of population in order to
determine representation. The framers of the
Constitution of the United States pioneered in this
area by providing for a national census every ten
years. Established in 1790, the United States census
is the oldest continuous periodic census done by a
nation and has served as a model for the institution
elsewhere. The proposal for a ten-year census was
not the first census proposal made in the United
States. In 1776 during the American Revolution, the
committee working on a preliminary body of laws
for the new nation proposed the requirement of a
census every three years. These early lawmakers
understood the importance of the census even then.
Today, the periodic United States census is used to
determine the number of members from each state in
the House of Representatives, one of the two houses
of the United States Congress.
Test2-86
86. Click on the sentence in the passage
that states the first year in which the
United States census was taken.
Answer是1776嗎
test2-87
87. Click on the sentence in paragraph 2
that mentions the specific way in
which the census influences
representation in the United States
government.
Answer是Representative governments have required
periodic public censuses of population in order to
determine representation.
test2-212
212. The word it in the passage refers to
film
image
process
word
Daguerre's procedure involved coating a
copper plate with a light-sensitive emulsion, which,
when exposed to light for 5 to 40 minutes, produced an
image on the plate. Because there was no negative,
as in modern film, the image, called a daguerreotype,
was unique and could not be duplicated. In August
1839, he made his process public, and word of it
spread far and wide.
Answer是c,但我覺得image會比較好耶,因為word of it是在定義一個專有名詞吧
,上面幾行有提到the image, called a daguerreotype
test2-235
235. The word proposed in the passage
is closest in meaning to
supported
discussed
intended
hypothesized
答案為d,但我再原文中讀不出有假設的意思,感覺上supported好像更為恰當
原文
One of the most complex communication
systems---certainly among invertebrates---is that
of honeybees. For maximum foraging efficiency,
workers must convey to one another the location of
good food sources, which may change frequently
as various flowers bloom or new fields of flowers
are located. How do honeybees communicate?
The problem was studied in the 1940's by Austrian
zoologist Karl von Frisch. By carefully watching
individual bees when they returned to the vertical
face of an open hive, von Frisch discovered that other
bees gather around the bee that has returned. The
returned bee then goes through a “dance.” Based
on his experiments, von Frisch proposed that the
dance indicates the location of food. If the source
is relatively close---less than about 50 meters---the
bee moves rapidly sideways in tight circles (the
“round dance”), causing the others to become
excited. Often the dancer regurgitates some nectar
that the others taste. The workers then leave the hive
and begin foraging nearby. Although the round dance
does not indicate direction, tasting the nectar is likely
to help the bees identify a scent to fly toward.
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