* 本题备选项需点击原文空格处获取，在列表上点选即可。 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 (26)_____ predators (食肉动物), killer whales may not fit the (27)_____ of a cultured creature. However, these beasts of the sea do display a vast range of highly (28)_____ behaviors that appear to be driving their genetic development. The word “culture” comes from the Latin “colere”, which (29)_____ means “to cultivate”. In other words, it refers to anything that is (30)_____ 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 (31)_____ that help them digest and utilize this fat-rich diet, thereby allowing them to (32)_____ in their cold climate. Like humans, killer whales have colonized a range of different (33)_____ across the globe, occupying every ocean basin on the planet, with an empire that (34)_____ 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 (35)_____ that the ability to learn population-specific hunting methods could be driving the animals’ genetic development.
* 本题备选项需点击原文空格处获取，在列表上点选即可。 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 (26)_____ predators (食肉动物), killer whales may not fit the (27)_____ of a cultured creature. However, these beasts of the sea do display a vast range of highly (28)_____ behaviors that appear to be driving their genetic development. The word “culture” comes from the Latin “colere”, which (29)_____ means “to cultivate”. In other words, it refers to anything that is (30)_____ 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 (31)_____ that help them digest and utilize this fat-rich diet, thereby allowing them to (32)_____ in their cold climate. Like humans, killer whales have colonized a range of different (33)_____ across the globe, occupying every ocean basin on the planet, with an empire that (34)_____ 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 (35)_____ that the ability to learn population-specific hunting methods could be driving the animals’ genetic development.
题目解答
答案
brutal╎image╎refined╎literally╎acquired╎adaptations╎thrive╎habitats╎extends╎speculate
解析
文章讨论了动物文化，特别是以虎鲸为例，说明了虎鲸如何通过学习特定的捕猎技巧来影响其基因发展。文章还解释了“文化”一词的来源及其含义，并通过人类的例子来说明文化如何影响基因。
步骤 2：分析每个空格的语境
- (26)：描述虎鲸作为食肉动物的特征，应选择一个形容词。
- (27)：描述虎鲸是否符合“有文化的生物”的形象，应选择一个名词。
- (28)：描述虎鲸的行为特征，应选择一个形容词。
- (29)：描述“colere”一词的含义，应选择一个副词。
- (30)：描述文化是习得的还是天生的，应选择一个形容词。
- (31)：描述基因的适应性，应选择一个名词。
- (32)：描述在寒冷气候中生存的能力，应选择一个动词。
- (33)：描述虎鲸占领的区域，应选择一个名词。
- (34)：描述虎鲸的领土范围，应选择一个动词。
- (35)：描述科学家的推测，应选择一个动词。
步骤 3：选择合适的词汇
- (26)：brutal（残忍的）
- (27)：image（形象）
- (28)：refined（精致的）
- (29)：literally（字面上）
- (30)：acquired（习得的）
- (31)：adaptations（适应性）
- (32)：thrive（繁荣）
- (33)：habitats（栖息地）
- (34)：extends（延伸）
- (35)：speculate（推测）