问题 选择题

研究黑猩猩的群体行为并取得突出成就的英国科学家(   )

A.戴安·福塞

B.珍·古尔多

C.卡尔·洪·佛烈希

D.罗伯·特虎克

答案

答案:B

题目分析:珍妮•古多尔,英国动物学家,中学毕业后只身进入非洲丛林与野生黑猩猩伍,在动物研究史上第一次揭开了野生黑猩猩行为的奥秘,珍妮•古多尔的发现被誉为西方世界最伟大的科学成就之一。

点评:此题为基础知识题,解答此类题目的关键是熟知生物学的发展历史,注意搜集相关的资料。

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think that he has passed the age of making any 4 . The next day I went to the public library, spending
several hours, and  5 to find the ages of famous people and their discoveries. The announcer was right!
     First, I looked at some of the   6  discoveries. One of the earliest, the famous one that   7  that bodies
of different weights   8  at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started
her research that led to a Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he   9  his world-changing
Theory of Relativity. Well,  10  of that. Yet I wondered if those "best years" were true in other  11 .
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does, but look when these people   14  their careers. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of
Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln   15 the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the
government at what age? Twenty-six!
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new ways. Then I thought of people   17  Shakespeare and Picasso. The   18  was writing wonderful   19 
at the late age of 50,   20  the latter was still trying new ways of painting when he was 90!
     Perhaps there is still hope for me.
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