Comprehension

Questions

1. when it serves their own purposes..

2. Because he wanted to know if the animals have thoughts and when they do their best thinking if they have.

3. a new windows on animal intelligence.

4. for each piece for a bit of pineapple

5. expanded the money supply by breaking chips in two

6. he remember to have been asked to share

7. it is in their interests the animal cooperate with human being.

8. it is true, but it does not go far enough.

9. because he would assess a situation and then do something based on the judgments he made.

10.male, his mate gave birth to…accessible.

11.he hid the orange underneath his foot.

12. he hid the orange underneath his foot. It reveals animals really have thoughts.

Key wods for discussion

1.       yes. Observing the animals, performance when dealing with capativity and human being

2.       a window on animal intelligence

3.       lanimal have enough thoughts. I agree.

Text organization

1.       let’s make a deal- animal manages bargains with people.

Whale-assess the situation and put their judgment into practice

2.       primate shell game- some animal perform tricks to deceive the zoo keeper

Vocabulary

1.       maintaining

2.       intelligent

3.       go far

4.       has expanded

5.       make a deal

6.       in the interest(s ) of

7.       wiped out

8.       surrounding

9.       convince

10.   figure out

11.   encountered

12.   has cooperated

13.   assessed

14.   had swithed

15.   envy

2.

1.long controversy

2.felt relieved

3.went wrong

4. survived the air crash

5.give in

3.

1. it is obvious that…so intelligent…would deceive

2. have undertaken…original…to explore

3. convinced us/that/underneath

II. confusable words

1．  firstly

2.first/first

3.       at last/

4.       firstly

5.       first

6.       first

7.       at first

8.       first

III. Usage(课堂讲解：名词修饰名词)

1.        animal intelligence所属

2.        zoo keeper地点

3.        eye contact方式

4.        money supply种类

5.        killer whale种类

6.        baby whale年龄

7.         family member种类

8.        sea turtle种类

Structure

1.

1.  only to find that

2.  only to get

3.  only to find that I had left

4.  only to discover

5.  unattractively

6.  unattractive

2. why +do 无必要，无用的动作 why +not do 建议

1. Why pay so much for such a coat?

2. Why not call the repairman to check it?

3. Why argue with him anymore?

4. Why not try his mobile phone?

5. I’ve bought a farm.

Cloze

A.

1.       emergency

2.       evidence

3.       original

4.       assess/sizing up

5.       negotiates

6.       suggest/reveal

7.       intelligent

8.       make a deal

9.       dominant

10.   in their interest

11. deceiving/tricking

12. controversy

13. judgment

14. explore

B.

1. or

2. how

3.from

4. but/however

5.behavior

6. when

7.doesn’t

8.instance/example

9.but

10. attention

11.another

12.that

13.a

14.every/each

15.associate

16.when

17.food

18.learning