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  3. Just because they can’t sing opera or ride a bicycle doesn’t mean that animal

Just because they can’t sing opera or ride a bicycle doesn’t mean that animal

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问题    Just because they can’t sing opera or ride a bicycle doesn’t mean that animals don’t have culture. There’s no better example of this than killer whales. As one of the most【C1】______predators (食肉动物), killer whales may not fit the【C2】______of a cultured creature. However, these beasts of the sea do display a vast range of highly【C3】______behaviors that appear to be driving their genetic development.
   The word " culture" comes from the Latin " colere," which【C4】______means " to cultivate. " In other words, it refers to anything that is【C5】______or learnt, rather than instinctive or natural. Among human populations, culture not only affects the way we live, but also writes itself into our genes, affecting who we are. For instance, having spent many generations hunting the fat marine mammals of the Arctic, the Eskimos of Greenland have developed certain genetic【C6】______that help them digest and utilize this fat-rich diet, thereby allowing them to【C7】______in their cold climate.
   Like humans, killer whales have colonized a range of different【C8】______across the globe, occupying every ocean basin on the planet with an empire that【C9】______from pole to pole. As such, different populations of killer whales have had to learn different hunting techniques in order to gain the upper hand over their local prey (猎物). This, in turn, has a major effect on their diet, leading scientists to【C10】______that the ability to learn population-specific hunting methods could be driving the animals’genetic development.
   A) acquired I) image
   B) adaptations J) literally
   C) brutal K) refined
   D) deliberately L) revolves
   E) expressed M) speculate
   F) extends N) structure
   G) habitats O) thrive
   F) extends N) structure
   H) humble [br] 【C5】
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答案 A
解析 动词辨析题。空格前面是be动词is，后面是由or并列的动词过去分词learnt，因此本空应填人动词过去分词。空格所在句意思是“换句话说，它指的是任何______或学到的东西，而不是本能的、天生的。”由句意推断，空格处应填入learnt的近义词，因此本题答案为A)acquired“习得；取得”。其他备选动词过去分词均不符合句意，因此排除。
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