2014年争锋软件职称英语考前押题 阅读理解:(共6篇,重点4篇) Researchers Discover Why Humans Began Walking Upright(重点) Batteries Built by Viruses(重点) Ants Have Big Impact on Environment as “Ecosystem Engineers”(重点) Teaching Math,Teaching Anxiety(重点) Cell Phones Increase Traffic,Pedestrain Fatalities Water On Mars 建议对以下文章进行一般性了解: Defending the Theory of Evolution Still Seems Needed Renewable Energy Sources Too Little for Global Warming Clone Farm Listening Device Provides Landslide Early Warning Listening to Birdsong 购买金牌保过版的客户,请认真学****软件中“名师课堂-阅读理解精讲”中以上相关文章的课程。 请尽量将“名师课堂-阅读理解精讲”中的全部课程都学****掌握好,以确保在任何情况下都能轻松应对。 完形填空: Free Stains With Fast Food Could Neutrailze Heart Risk “Liquefaction” Key to Much of Japanese Earthquake Damage Sharks Perform a Service for Earth’s Waters 【阅读理解】 Researchers Discover Why Humans Began Walking Upright直立(重点掌握) 视频课程见:名师课堂-阅读理解精讲第7讲 Most of us walk and carry items in our hands every day. These are seemingly simple activities that the majority of us don’t question. But an international team of researchers, including Dr. Richmond from GW's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences,have discovered that human walking upright, may have originated起源 millions of years ago as an adaptation适应 to carrying scarce稀缺, high- quality resources. The team of researchers from the U. S., England, Japan and Portugal investigated研究考察 the behavior of modern-day chimpanzees黑猩猩 as peted竞争 for food resources, in an effort to understand what ecological生态 settings would lead a large ape大猿— one that resembles类似于 the 6 million-year old ancestor祖先 we shared mon共同分享 with living chimpanzees — to walk on two legs. “These chimpanzees provide a model of the ecological conditions under which our earliest ancestors might have begun walking on two legs, ",said Dr. Richmond. The research findings suggest that chimpanzees switch to moving on two limbs四肢 instead of four in situations where they need to monopolize独占 a resource. Standing on two legs allows them to carry much more a