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复习巩固:(6)Unit 6 At one with nature——2023-2024学年高一英语外研版(2019)寒假轻松衔接
一、填空题
1.He was _____(narrow) hit by a bus when he was turning left.
2.Do you think paper money _____(replace) by electronic money in the future?
3.You can pay by trip, which is about 50 cents to 2 dollars each trip, _____(depend) on how far you go.
4.The _____(complete) of the road will have a deep effect on the economy of this area.
5.The police prevented anybody from _____(enter) the scene of the accident.
6.His new book _____(publish) next month and we are really looking forward to it.
7.The amount of money we had at that time was so _____(limit) that we couldn't afford to buy the new house.
8.Exceptionally dry weather over the past two months has cut _____(agriculture) production.
9.After hearing the news, she breathed a sigh of relief, with a burden _____(lift) off her heart.
10.These measures are not only _____(benefit) to people's daily life, but they also benefit the local economy.
二、阅读理解
Goffin's cockatoos, a kind of small parrot native to Australasia, have been shown to have similar shape-recognition abilities to a human two-year-old. Though not known to use tools in the wild, the birds have proved skilful at tool use while kept in the cage. In a recent experiment, cockatoos were presented with a box with a nut inside it. The clear front of the box had a "keyhole" in a geometric shape, and the birds were given five differently shaped "keys" to choose from. Inserting the correct "key" would let out the nut.
In humans, babies can put a round shape in a round hole from around one year of age, but it will be another year before they are able to do the same with less symmetrical (对称的) shapes. This ability to recognize that a shape will need to be turned in a specific direction before it will fit is called an "allocentric frame of reference". In the experiment, Goffin's cockatoos were able to select the right tool for the job, in most cases, by visual recognition alone. Where trial-and-e