大题预测04 词汇填空 -【大题精做】冲刺2024年高考英语大题突破+限时集训（上海专用）

大题预测04 词汇填空 （建议用时：60分钟 满分：100分） Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. 1.【2023学年上海市南洋中学高三上学期10月考试】 A. association B. contribution C. effectively D. evolutionarily E. grasp F. immature G. joyous H. logged I. selected J. skilled K. treat Puppies Understand You Even at a Young Age We like to think our puppies can follow what we're telling them. Well, to some degree they can, even when they're ____11____. We have known for a long time that adult dogs are especially ____12____ in understanding cooperative communication from humans. They can spontaneously follow a human pointing gesture. They're even better at it than apes, which are much more closely related to us,____13____ speaking. But is it a skill dogs pick up simply by spending time with people? Or is it a trait that was ____14____ for when dogs first became domesticated? To find out, Bray and her colleagues ____15____ time with 375 puppies that were going to be trained to be service dogs. By working with pups that had spent most of their young lives with their owners, Bray could figure out whether dogs had to learn to ____16____ human communications -or if it's something they were born with. The pups participated in tests designed to assess dogs1 social smarts. In one experiment, a researcher would hide food under one of two cups - and then call to the puppy and point toward the cup that held the ____17____. They found puppies were able to use this social signal ____18____ to choose the correct location. In another experiment, a researcher would talk to a puppy. “Hi pup. Are you a good puppy? Yes, you are! What a good puppy! ”This goes on for about 30 seconds. During this interaction, the researcher would record how much time the pup spent gazing at her with ____19____ sight. They found that puppies would respond to human social gaze and could successfully use information given by a human