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In a recent book entitled The Psychic Life of Insects, Professor Bouvier say
In a recent book entitled The Psychic Life of Insects, Professor Bouvier say
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In a recent book entitled The Psychic Life of Insects, Professor Bouvier says that we must be careful not to credit the little winged fellow with intelligence when they behave in what seems like an intelligent manner. They may be only reacting. I would like to confront the Professor with an instance of reasoning power on the part of an insect which cannot be explained away in any other manner.
During the summer, while I was at work on my doctoral thesis, we kept a female wasp at our cottage. It was more like a child of our own than a wasp, except that it looked more like a wasp than a child of our own. That was one of the ways we told the difference.
It was still a young wasp when we got it and for some time we could not get it to eat or drink, it was so shy. Since it was female, we decided to call it Miriam.
One evening I had been working late in my laboratory fooling around with some gin and other chemicals, and in leaving the room I tripped over a line of diamonds which someone had left lying on the floor and knocked over my card index which contained the names and addresses of all the larvae worth knowing in North American. The cards went everywhere.
I was too tired to stop to pick them that night. As I went, however, I noticed the wasp was flying about in circles over the scattered cards. "Maybe Miriam will pick them up", I said half laughingly to myself, never thinking for one moment that such would be the case.
When I came down the next morning Miriam was still asleep in her box, evidently tired out. And well she might have been. For there on the floor lay the cards scattered all about just as I had left them the night before. The faithful little insect had buzzed about all night trying to come to some decision about picking them up and arranging them in the boxes for me, and then had figured out for herself that, as she knew practically nothing on larvae of any sort except wasp larvae, she would probably make more of a mess of rearranging them than if she had left them on the floor for me to fix. It was just too much for her to tackle, and discouraged, she went over and lay down in her box, where she cried herself to sleep. [br] The author took the wasp Miriam to his cottage because
选项
A、Miriam was treated like a child.
B、Miriam was the pet of the family.
C、the author was studying insects for his doctoral thesis.
D、the author wanted to prove that insects have intelligence.
答案
C
解析
第2段首句第一次提到黄蜂Miriam,该句提到了当时作者正在写博士论文,从下文各段落中的laboratory,chemical,larvae等词可以推断作者是一个昆虫学家,把这些点结合起来可以推断作者把Miriam带回家是因为他的研究与昆虫有关,因此本题应选C。
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