问答

1.What questions does the author put forward in the first paragraph?

2.What does he think of this question?

3.How does a bee communicate to other bees the fact that it has found food?

4.Why have dolphins been studied to see if they have a language?

5.Bees and dolphins have the ability to communicate .Does it follow that they have languages?

6.Experiments show that monkeys have more sophisticated methods of communication than other animals. They can even use a human language system. Can we thus draw the conclusion that monkeys have a language?

7.Why is it much more difficult to decide whether monkeys have language?

8.Is it quite certain that human beings are the only animals that have language?

1. Bees can tell by their dances all of the following expect ______.

[A] the distance they have to cover to find the food

[B] the exact position where they can find the food

[C] the kind of food they can find

[D] the direction in which they have to fly to find the food.

2. Which of the following is true?

[A] Dolphins are similar to human beings in their behavior.

[B] Dolphin’s communication system is much like that of human beings.

[C] When dolphins communicate they use a language .

[D] Dolphins can tell clearly about food, danger, or other things.

3. None of the experiments with monkeys can prove that moneys have language because ____.

[A] those monkeys are not clever enough

[B] they were taught in a wrong way

[C] they can never speak like human beings

[D] we don’t understand their language

4. We learn from scientists’ experiments that monkeys are cleverer in language learning than other animals because_____.

[A] they can learn computer language

[B] they have the ability to produce simple human sounds

[C] they are the only animals which understand human sign language.

[D] They have the ability to combine and generalize

5. The author means to tell us that_____.

[A] it is a complicated matter to decide whether animals have language

[B] experiments by the scientists have proved that animals don’t have language

[C] nothing has come out from the studies of animal language

[D] it is hard to find a correct definition for language

1.A bee can tell other bees by doing tail-wagging dance that he has found food. This shows that bees have language.

2.Dolphins do not have a communication system of their own.

3.Experiments show that monkeys have language.

4.Monkeys can be taught to use some human language, but that is not their usual language.

5.The author means to tell us that language is not just a simple system to communicate information.

Questions for discussion

1.What is the main purpose of studying different languages of animals?

2.What is the author’s opinion in the whole article?