65. According to the passage all the following statements
are true EXCEPT____________.
A. at
college you should take an active part in social activities
B. the
author advise you to get a computer data book
C. you are
reminded of study by making a sign everywhere
D. you are
given a suggestion that you make a identity card first.
14
Everybody
is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn
that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he is known as
being lazy, you might even be quite cross. Such behavior is regarded as “all
too human”, with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to
have this finely developed sense of sadness. But a study by Sarah Brosnan of
Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature,
suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.
The
researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys. They
look smart. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their
food happily. Above all, like female human beings, they tend to pay much closer
attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.
Such
characteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnan’s study. The
researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens (奖券) for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to
exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were
placed in separate and connected rooms, so that each other could observe what
the other is getting in return for its rock, they became quite different.
In the
world of monkeys,grapes are excellent goods (and much
preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for
her token, the second was not willing to hand hers over for a mere piece of
cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in
exchange at all, the other either shook her own token at the researcher, or
refused to accept the cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the
other room (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to bring about
dissatisfaction in a female monkey.
The
researches suggest that these monkeys, like humans, are guided by social
senses. In the wild, they are co-operative and group-living. Such co-operation
is likely to be firm only when each animal feels it is not being cheated.
Feelings of anger when unfairly treated, it seems, are not the nature of human
beings alone. Refusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings clear
to other animals of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness
developed independently in monkeys and humans, or whether it comes from the
common roots that they had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered
question.