上海市杨浦区2022-2024年中考英语一模试题分类汇编：完形填空

上海市杨浦区2022-2024年中考英语一模试题分类汇编 完形填空 2024年上海市杨浦区中考一模英语试题 VI. Choose the best answer and complete the passage(选择最恰当的选项完成短文)(12分) Scientists used to believe that animals could not think, but now we know that animals can understand information and use it. 64________ , if we repeat words such as Down or Sir to dogs, they'll begin to understand them and follow the instruction. Some kinds of dogs can understand more than one hundred words! Some dogs have jobs. Working dogs are 46 _________ good at learning words because they have to listen carefully to instructions. Border collies, a kind of dog, are often used to move sheep. Farmers use special words to tell the dogs what to do. They say Find when they want the dog to go and look for the sheep, and then Walk when they want the dog to move towards the sheep. The dogs also need to understand the word Stop. They can also understand if they have done a job well and 47_________ whether the command is from their own farmer. Dogs are not the only creatures that can learn words. An orca (killer whale)called Wilkie has been taught to repeat the words Hello and Bye-bye and can count to three. She produces the sounds by pushing air through her blowhole, but amazingly, she can 48_________ the sound of a human voice. If she listens to children, she sounds like a child when she repeats the words. In the wild, orcas live in groups and the young orcas make the similar sounds to the sounds the adult orcas make. So, each group of orcas 49________ from other groups. Parrots are famous for repeating words, and an African Grey parrot called Alex could understand the English words for one hundred and fifty different things-like water, banana and grape. He knew some colours and shapes, and he could count various items. He could even understand the word none or zero. People once thought it was 50________ to say someone had a brain like a bird, but now it seems birds and other animals are smarter than we thought. 45. A. As a result B. For e