Question

【题目】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 (copy) sounds that people make. Dolphins, bats, and some other animals also copy sounds. Now we can add elephants this list of copycats (盲目模仿者).
Dr. Joyce Poole is an expert,studies the sounds of elephants. While she was in Kenya, she would hear strange noises (make) by Mlaika after sunset. Mlaika was 8-year-old African elephant and it lived near a highway.
Dr. Poole says that she couldn't tell the (different) between Mlaika's call and the (distance) truck noise. Why did it copy the sounds of the trucks driving by? Animals that are able to copy sounds may enjoy (practice) new sounds. When they (keep) outside of their natural environment, they may copy unusual sounds.
So far Dr. Poole (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】to copy；to；who；made；a；difference；distant；racticing；are kept；has spent
【解析】本文是一篇说明文，讲述的一些动物可以模仿别的声音，比如鹦鹉，海豚，蝙蝠，猩猩。Dr. Joyce Poole就是一个研究大象声音的动物学家，发现大象能像鸟一样发出声音来和其他大象交流。
（1）考查非谓语动词。句意：那只鹦鹉已经学会了重复人们发出的声音。learn to do sth.固定短语“学会做某事”，故填to copy 。
（2）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.固定短语“把……加到……之上”，故填to。
（3）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，故填who 。
（4）考查非谓语动词。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...。故填made 。
（5） 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，故填an。
（6）考查名词。tell后面的the 后要接名词，tell the difference between A and B固定短语“区分A和B”，故填difference 。
（7）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，故填distant 。
（8）考查非谓语动词。enjoy doing sth.“喜欢做某事”，enjoy后接动名词作宾语，故填practicing 。
（9）考查语态。动物是被圈起来，因此该句用被动语态，故填are kept 。
（10）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，故填has spent。