1981年高考英语试题及答案

　　六、选词填空 根据句子的意思和结构，从所给的动词中，选出一个动词或用它的变化形式填入空格内。(本题共10分，每个空格1分。)

　　(break,bring,cut,do,go,know,learn,lose,see,stay,take,turn,watch)

　　例:Everybody is gone.

　　1.It's easier said than .

　　2.There was so much to do.He had to up all night.

　　3.She often out of her way to do things for her neighbours.

　　4.Do you enjoy others playing chess?

　　5.It out that only the youngest boy in our class had given the right answer.

　　6.In spite of his English,he finally made himself understood.

　　7.Thomas Edison gave his whole life to out the secret of nature.

　　8.It is to all that the World Trade Centre in New York is the highest building in the city.

　　9.Please that the work is completed in time.

　　10.She was reading her book,completely to the outside world.

　　七、阅读理解 阅读下面短文，并根据短文内容回答问题。(本题共20分，第1小题2分，第2-7小题每题3分。)

　　Human beings act in a different way from that of animals just because they can speak while animals cannot.Even the cleverest animals cannot do things which to us seem very simple and which small children, as soon as they learn to talk ,would be able to do .

　　A German scientist,who made experiments for many years with big apes,found that his apes could use sticks as tools to pull down bananas which they could not reach.But they only used the stick to get a banana when both the stick and the banana were in view at the same time.If the banana was in front of them and the stick was behind them,they could not use the stick.They could not bear the banana in mind long enough to look around and pick up the stick and then use it.

　　The reason for this is clear.We have words for banana and stick which help us to think about these things when they are not in sight.Even a small child knowing the words "banana"and "stick"has an idea of their relationship(关系)and is able to think of "stick" together with"banana"and to remember this long enough to pick the stick from behind and use it on the banana.

　　Unable to speak,animals cannot keep their knowledge of things for long.That is why they often interrupt one line of action to do something else and later forget it completely.Human beings,on the other hand,use language and are able to go after one thing continuously and do it with a definite aim.

　　1.Clever animals can do all the things that small children can do ,can't they?

　　2.Do human beings and animals act in the same way?Why?

　　3.What did the German scientist do to find out that some animals could use tools to get food?

　　4.The apes always knew how to get the banana when they saw either the banana or the stick. Is that true?

　　5.Under what conditions could the apes use the stick to get bananas?

　　6.Why can children bear the banana and the stick in mind?

　　7.What is the difference between human beings and animals in doing things as mentioned in the last paragraph?