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共用题干 Animal's “Sixth Sense”A tsunami（海啸

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问题 共用题干Animal's “Sixth Sense”
A tsunami（海啸）was triggered（引发）by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean in December, 2004.It killed tens of thousands of people in Asia and East Africa. Wild animals,1， seem to have escaped that terrible tsunami. This phenomenon adds weight to notions that they possess a“sixth sense” for2 ,experts said.
Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast clearly 3 wild beasts,with no dead animals found.
“No elephants are dead,not4a dead rabbit. I think animals can5 disaster.
They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening,”H.D. Ratnayake,deputy director of Sri Lanka's Wildlife Department,said about one month after the tsunami attack. The6washed floodwaters up to 2 miles inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged（被 毁坏的）southeast, Sri Lanka's biggest wildlife7and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards（豹）.
“There has been a lot of8 evidence about dogs barking or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions（火山爆发）or earthquakes. But it has not been proven ,” said Matthew van Lierop,an animal behavior 9 at Johannesburg Zoo.
“There have been no10studies because you can't really test it in a lab or field setting , ” he told Reuters. Other authorities concurred（同意）with this11.
“Wildlife seem to be able to pick up certain12 ,especially birds…there are many re- ports of birds detecting impending（迫近的）disasters , ” said Clive Walker , who has written several books on African wildlife.
Animals13 rely on the known senses such as smell or hearing to avoid danger such as predators（食肉动物）.
The notion of an animal “sixth sense”一or14other mythical power一is an enduring one which the evidence on Sri Lanka's ravaged coast is likely to add15.7._________A: birthplaces B: playground C: reserve D: storage
选项 7._________
A: birthplaces
B: playground
C: reserve
D: storage
答案 C
解析 上一句提到海啸造成了巨大的人员伤亡，接着谈到动物则逃脱了海啸的袭击。两个句子意义相反，所以要用however以承接上文。
上文提到海啸是一种自然灾难，所以只能是对灾难的“第六感”，其他选项的意思都不合适。
本句继续在对海啸造成的人员伤亡和动物能逃脱海啸这一现象进行讲述。答案应该是A项miss“错过（躲过海啸）”。
从上下文判断，本句意为：没有大象死亡，甚至连一只兔子也没有死亡。“甚至”的英语表达是even。
全文说的是动物的第六感觉，而feel(触觉）, see（视觉）, hear（听觉）都属于前五个感觉，所以不是正确答案。D项sense(感觉的）。
本句意为：海的巨浪将洪水带到离海岸远达2英里的地方。正确答案应该是 A项waves（波浪）。
从上下文判断，本句意为：Yala国家公园是斯里兰卡最大的野生动物保护区，而birthplaces“出生地”, playground“操场”和storage“存储”都与上下文表达的意思不相符，因此不是答案。
下一句提到这些迹象（evidence）并没有被证实。因此这些迹象不可能是sci- entific的。而experimental和chemical的词义和上下文不配合，因此也不是答案。只有ap-parent“明显的”与上下文的意思相配合。
在动物园里工作并发表对动物行为的专业性见解的人一定是专家学者，所以A项specialist为正确答案。
本段的第一句说明为什么evidence没有得到科学验证。原因是科学家无法在实验室或野外进行特定的实验，以验证动物预见灾难的第六感觉。specific最适合句意，意为“特定的”。
concurred with（同意）的宾语是view, opinion, judgment这一类词。前文提到Matthew van Lierop指出无法验证动物预见灾难的第六感觉的困难所在，其他专家也同意这一看法，所以答案为assessment。
本句意为：动物有捕捉灾难来临前某些征兆的能力，特别是鸟类。way“路线”, behavior“行为”和principle“原则”与上述意义偏离很远，所以答案是phenomenon（现象）。
根据常识判断，动物要依靠嗅觉，听觉等逃避食肉动物的攻击。unwilling-ly“不情愿地”, occasionally“偶尔”和doubtfully“怀疑地”与上述意义不一致，只有certainly 是合适的选项。
根据语境可知，此处意为“某种神奇的能力”，所以要选some。
add与介词to搭配，意为“加入，加到，增加”。此处句意为：动物有“第六感”或其他神秘的能力，这种说法由来已久，而斯里兰卡被海啸袭击的海滩又为这一说法增添了一笔证据。
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