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1. 1.

   Choose the best answer.

   1. What shows Kanzi's achievement?
      1. He shows mental abilities resembling those of a human child of two-and-a-half years.
      2. He knows so much though he is only two-and-a-half-years old.
      3. He has learnt so much in only two-and-a-half years.
      4. He has been learning human behaviour for two-and-a-half years.
   2. Three things show that Kanzi can learn a language. What are they?
      1. He generally gets what he wants, he can understand more than 200 words and he can see symbols on a console.
      2. He understands more than 200 words, he can 'say' words by pointing to symbols and he can make sentences of two or three words.
      3. He knows what he wants, he can understand what he is told and he can hear the telephone.
      4. He can understand what he hears, he generally gets what he wants and he can tell the difference between coffee with and without milk.
   3. Intelligence is a complex combination of several different abilities. Therefore -
      1. it is clear that only humans have it.
      2. it is unnatural for any of the animals to have it.
      3. it is surprising to see some animals possessing some of those abilities.
      4. it is unreasonable to expect those abilities in animals.
   4. The American scientist who studied chickens showed that -
      1. the best diet for chickens is worms, peas and peanuts.
      2. the rooster signalled to the hens with clucking sounds when the food was laid out.
      3. chickens liked worms and peas much more than peanuts.
      4. the rooster signalled in one way for worms and peas and in another way for peanuts.
2. 2.

   Read the statement below and answer these questions.

   According to experts in the field, the ability to think includes memory, logic and judgement. (para 3)

   1. Which animal shows the most remarkable memory? How?
   2. Which animal gives evidence of logic? What is the evidence?
   3. Which animal goes beyond logic to show judgement? What does it judge?
   4. Of the three abilities, which is the most advanced?
   5. Why does the text say that 'the chimpanzee's abilities are not that surprising'? (para 5)
   6. What other animals are similar to chimpanzees in this respect?
   7. The narrator says, From a very young age, these animals learn much faster than human babies. Why, then, are those animals not better thinkers than humans? (para 5)
3. 3.

   Combine these separate sentences into a single sentence with a relative clause of the kind indicated.

   1. Intelligence is a complex ability. It cannot be defined precisely. (non-restrictive)
   2. The vulture picks up a stone and drops it on an egg. That is the egg it wants to break. (restrictive ) (...the egg which …)
   3. The salmon spends years in the open sea but always returns to a place. That place is where it was born. (restrictive) (...the place where...)
   4. The chimpanzees want to open those nuts. They are quite hard. (non-restrictive)
   5. Each chimpanzee has to judge the weight of a stone. It has to carry that stone. (restrictive)
   6. At the marine animals station in Hawaii, acrobatic feats are performed by dolphins. They are also intelligent creatures. (non-restrictive)
4. 4.

   Re-read paragraph 2 of the text and find words (or phrases) which have very nearly these meanings.

   1. ability
   2. exchange messages
   3. animal like a monkey
   4. a panel with switches or controls
   5. producing sudden and great surprise
   6. the class of all men and women
   7. as a result of
   8. something that stands for something else
   9. a list of all words
   10. series
5. 5.

   Add the suffix -able to these words and write the new words in your notebook. Look up a good dictionary if you are not sure.

   1. manage	2. advise
   3. negotiate	4. sustain
   5. agree	6. account
   7. knowledge	8. treat
   9. forget	10. navigate

    

6. 6.

   Write a Letter 'to the Editor of the newspaper putting forward your own view. The ideas in the box may help you.

   early stages of evolution	different species closer in abilities to one another	some evolved faster or further
   humans most evolved	but natural to find some shared abilities	why startling?

    

   Begin with -

   Sir, I refer to the article called 'Do Animals Reason?' in your Sunday edition last week. Though I agree with...

   Write your own name and the name of your city or town at the end.