Empathy(同情心) lets us feel another person’s pain and drives us to help. Do any other animals feel empathy? Scientists recently found that rats(老鼠) do, too.
Most people don’t like rats. In many people’s eyes, rats are only bad. But Jean Decety and his partners at the University of Chicago did an experiment. It showed that rats are kind, warm-hearted animals. They can feel each other’s pain.
Scientists placed pairs of rats in plastic cages(籠子) for two weeks. During this time they got to know each other. Then they put one of the rats from each pair into a small container(容器) in the cages. The small container had a door. It was so designed as to fall to the side when the free rat touched it. Many of the trapped(困住的) rats squeaked(吱吱叫) to show their discomfort. The other rats of the pairs could see their suffering(受苦的) friends clearly.
In most pairs, the free rats would become very worried about their friends. They kept trying to save their friends again and again throughout the month. Scientists put the rats’ favorite chocolate in the cages, but the rats didn’t eat it until they had saved their friends successfully. Scientists also found that female rats seemed to act more empathetic than male rats.
“The results are the first to show that rats take action in response to another’s trouble,” Decety said. “Monkeys and chimpanzees have similar behavior. But unlike those animals, rats can be ready used in laboratory studies. They will help us to learn which parts of the brain lead to empathy and helping behavior and whether empathy is natural.”
小題1:A person with empathy is often _____.
A．kind-heartedB．cleverC．a(chǎn)ctiveD．strong
小題2:Why didn’t the free rats eat the chocolate at first?
A．Because they were not hungry at that time.
B．Because chocolate was not their favorite food.
C．Because they wanted to save the trapped rats first.
D．Because they were afraid that the chocolate was bad.
小題3:Which of the following animals were NOT mentioned in the passage?
A．Monkeys.B．Chimpanzees.C．Rats.D．Cats.
小題4:What does the passage mainly tell us?
A．Rats can feel other animals’ pain.
B．Chocolate is rats’ favorite food.
C．Rats are empathetic and can feel each other’s pain.
D．Female rats are more empathetic than male rats.

小題1:A
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:C

試題分析：同情心讓我們感受到他人的痛苦并幫助他人。動物會有同情心嗎？科學(xué)家最佳發(fā)現(xiàn)老鼠也有同情心。芝加哥大學(xué)的Jean Decety和他的伙伴做了一個實驗表明：老鼠是善良熱心的動物，它們能感受到彼此的痛苦。
小題1: 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)全文第一句Empathy(同情心) lets us feel another person’s pain and drives us to help. 可知選A。
小題2:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段Scientists put the rats’ favorite chocolate in the cages, but the rats didn’t eat it until they had saved their friends successfully.判斷選 C。
小題3:推理判斷題。根據(jù)全文尤其是最后一段判斷，文章提到rats、Monkeys and chimpanzees 。故選D。
小題4:主題歸納題。根據(jù)文章第一段Do any other animals feel empathy? Scientists recently found that rats(老鼠) do, too. 判斷選 C。
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