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The latest in cat research reveals that the lovely animal seems to have a ba

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问题     The latest in cat research reveals that the lovely animal seems to have a basic grasp on both the laws of physics and the ins and outs of cause and effect.
    According to a newly published study, cats seem to be able to predict the location of hiding prey (猎物) using both their ears and an inborn (天生的) understanding of how the physical world works.
    In a recent experiment, Japanese researchers taped 30 domestic cats reacting to a container that a team member shook. Some containers rattled (发出响声) : others did not. When the container was tipped over, sometimes an object fell out and sometimes it didn’ t.
    It turns out that the cats were remarkably smart about what would happen when a container was tipped over. When an object did not drop out of the bottom of a rattling container, they looked at it for a longer time than they did when the container behaved as expected.
    "Cats use a causal-logical understanding of noise or sounds to predict the appearance of invisible objects," lead researcher Saho Takagi says in a press release. The researchers conclude that cats’ hunting style may have developed based on their common-sense abilities to infer where prey is, using their hearing.
    Scientists have explored this idea with other endearing creatures: babies. Like cats, babies appear to engage in what’s called "preferential looking" —looking longer at things that are interesting or unusual than things they perceive as normal.
    When babies’ expectations are violated in experiments like the ones performed with the cats, they react much like their animal friends. Psychologists have shown that babies apparently expect their world to comply with the laws of physics and cause and effect as early as two months of age.
    Does the study mean that cats will soon grasp the ins and outs of cause and effect? Maybe. Okay, so cats may not be the next physics faculty members at America’ s most important research universities. But by demonstrating their common sense, they’ ve shown that the divide between cats and humans may not be that great after all. [br] What is characteristic of the way cats hunt, according to the Japanese researchers?
选项 A、They depend on their instincts.
B、They rely mainly on their hearing.
C、They wait some time before attack.
D、They use both their ears and eyes.
答案 A
解析 推理题。原文第五段最后一句指出，猫的狩猎风格是在其运用听觉根据常识推断猎物位置的能力基础上发展而来的。由此可知，听到声音判断猎物的位置，这属于猫的本能，故答案为A。B项与原文不符，利用常识判断是猫狩猎的主要特点，听觉只是辅助，故排除。C项原文未提及，故排除。D项中的“眼睛”原文也未提及，故排除。
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