Question

【题目】语法填空。

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

People can often see a talking parrot on a TV show, in a movie, or even in someone’s home. The parrot has learned ___【1】___ (copy) sounds that people make. Dolphins, bats, and some other animals also copy sounds. Now we can add elephants ___【2】___ this list of copycats (盲目模仿者).

Dr. Joyce Poole is an expert, ____【3】__ studies the sounds of elephants. While she was in Kenya, she would hear strange noises ___【4】__ (make) by Mlaika after sunset. Mlaika was ___【5】__ 8-year-old African elephant and it lived near a highway.

Dr. Poole says that she couldn’t tell the ___【6】___ (different) between Mlaika’s call and the ___【7】___ (distance) truck noise. Why did it copy the sounds of the trucks driving by? Animals that are able to copy sounds may enjoy __【8】___ (practice) new sounds. When they ___【9】___ (keep) outside of their natural environment, they may copy unusual sounds.

So far Dr. Poole ____【10】___ (spend) 18 years with two female Asian elephants. Asian elephants make sounds like birds to talk with one another.

Parrots, dolphins, humans, and elephants show that being a copycat is one way that animals and people make new friends and keep old ones.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】to copy

【2】to

【3】who

【4】made

【5】an

【6】difference

【7】distant

【8】practicing

【9】are kept

【10】has spent

【解析】

【1】to copy 考查动词短语。句意：那只鹦鹉已经学会了重复人们发出的声音。learn to do sth.表示“学会做某事”。

【2】to 考查介词。句意：现在我们把大象加到这个盲目的模仿者的名单上。add sth. to sth.“把……加到……之上”。

【3】who 考查定语从句。本题定语从句的先行词是expert，关系代词who指代先行词，在句中作主语。

【4】made 考查分词作定语。noise与动词make之间构成被动关系，所以使用过去分词短语作定语，修饰名词noise，相当于定语从句that were made...。

【5】an 考查冠词。横线后8-year-old African elephant中的名词elephant（大象）是一个可数名词，使用不定冠词a/an修饰表示泛指。因为eight是以元音发音开头的单词，所以用an来修饰。

【6】difference 考查名词。tell后面的the 后要接名词，tell the difference between A and B表示“区分A和B”。

【7】distant 考查形容词。横线后面是名词短语truck noise，在英语中要使用形容词修饰名词或名词短语，所以使用distance的形容词形式distant。

【8】practicing 考查固定搭配。enjoy doing sth.“喜欢做某事”，enjoy后接动名词作宾语。

【9】are kept 考查语态。动物是被圈起来，因此该句用被动语态。

【10】has spent 考查时态。时间状语so far（到目前为止）通常和现在完成时连用，表示到目前为止已经完成的事情。