首页
登录
职称英语
Pet birds can not only imitate sounds, they can distinguish between language
Pet birds can not only imitate sounds, they can distinguish between language
游客
2023-08-25
24
管理
问题
Pet birds can not only imitate sounds, they can distinguish between languages, potentially offering new【C1】______on how the brain recognises speech, Japanese researchers say. It has already been【C2】______that monkeys, mice and other mammals can recognise different languages but this is the first time that birds have been found to【C3】______the ability, The Mainichi Daily News reported.
A research team【C4】______Java Sparrows to English and Chinese translations recorded by exchange students of two well-known Japanese novels, The Tale of Genji and Natsume Soseki’s I Am a Cat. A bird sitting on a perch first listened to the English【C5】______and was only allowed to eat afterwards. Then the researchers played English and Chinese recordings at random and only allowed the bird to eat after hopping onto the perch with the English. The birds correctly identified the English recording 75 percent of the time. The same results were achieved with another two birds that were【C6】______to eat only when Chinese was played. "Humans are able to distinguish between languages, even ones they don’t know, from the intonation and pronunciation, and it seems that paddy birds have the【C7】______ability," said Keio University experimental psychology professor Shigeru Watanabe, who led the research.
Watanabe said paddy birds like the Java Sparrow and parakeets, which are【C8】______vocally, learn sounds unique to their species after becoming adults, suggesting that they have a【C9】______ability to distinguish between sounds. The researchers did not use Japanese because it was the language the birds【C10】______listened to, the newspaper said.
A)possess I)confirmed
B)normally J)skilled
C)same K)version
D)suggestions L)low
E)clues M)rarely
F)high N)permitted
G)process O)different
H)exposed [br] 【C9】
选项
答案
F
解析
空前的a和空后的名词ability表明,本空应填一以辅音音素开头的形容词。前面提到爪哇雀能很熟练地发出声音,学会它们种群所特有的声音,由此可知,它们应具有较高的区分语言的能力,故答案为F)high(高的)。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2956351.html
相关试题推荐
Auto-Tune:WhyPopMusicSoundsPerfectIfyouhaven’tbeen
Auto-Tune:WhyPopMusicSoundsPerfectIfyouhaven’tbeen
Auto-Tune:WhyPopMusicSoundsPerfectIfyouhaven’tbeen
Auto-Tune:WhyPopMusicSoundsPerfectIfyouhaven’tbeen
Auto-Tune:WhyPopMusicSoundsPerfectIfyouhaven’tbeen
Inthemidstofaperiodofrapidlanguageextinction,withalanguageestim
Inthemidstofaperiodofrapidlanguageextinction,withalanguageestim
[originaltext]LanguageexpertssaythatspokenEnglishwasalmostthesame
[originaltext]LanguageexpertssaythatspokenEnglishwasalmostthesame
[originaltext]TheOldCanadaRoadisalonglosttrailbetweentheCanadian
随机试题
Whatistheprobablerelationshipbetweenthemanandthewoman?[br][original
ChooseTWOletters,A-E.WhichTWOsubjectsdidMartinalikebestbeforegoingt
Westerntattooistsworkwithaspecialelectricalinstrument,somethinglike
下图所示绿色建筑设计方法中,不能有效增强建筑自然通风效果的是( )。 A.室
.NETFramework是一种( )。A.编程语言 B.操作系统 C.
Thechangeinthatvillagewasmiraculou
慢性宫颈炎的治疗,不合适的方法是A.电熨治疗 B.冷冻治疗 C.激光治疗
A.急性单纯性阑尾炎 B.急性坏疽性阑尾炎 C.慢性阑尾炎 D.阑尾周围脓
中焦湿热郁蒸所致的异常汗出是( )。A.手足心汗 B.阴部汗出 C.心胸汗
教师向学生描绘学习的对象、介绍学习材料、叙述事物产生变化的过程,这样的教学方法被
最新回复
(
0
)