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DAdult musk ducks raised in captivity()can copy the sounds they heard as hatchlings,such as a door slamming,a man coughing and even what was probably a former caretaker'scatchphrase(口头禅)，"You bloody fool!'”The large,grey Australian waterbirds usually learn to make high-pitched whistles fromtheir older flock mates.But individuals raised in captivity away from other musk dusks havebeen heard copying the sounds around them associated with human life.The findings provide evidence that musk dusks now join parrots,seals,bats,elephantsand humans as vocal(声音的)language learners,which means they acquire“words"”based onwhat they hear as infants.says Carel Ten Cate at Leiden University in the Netherlands."Vocallearning is a rare and special trait.so that makes this duck particularly special,"he says.TenCate studies vocal learning in birds and was recently fascinated to come across a story about atalking duck in Australia.So he tracked down the now-retired Australian scientist Peter J.Fullagar,who first noticed the phenomenon more than 30 years ago.Fullagar shared his conserved audio clips()of 4-year-old Ripper,a male musk duckhand-raised on a nature reserve without other musk ducks.In the clips,Ripper walks aroundspeaking when acting aggressively and copying a slamming door sound when trying to attractfemales.Fullagar also shared an audio clip of a second male that was raised on the same reserve withhis mother in 2000,along with Pacific black ducks that make sounds "like common parkducks."Ten Cate says.Female musk ducks don't perform vocal displays,and the young,unnamed duck grew up to copy the black ducks around him.After Ten Cate ensured the recordings,he used software to confirm that the birds wererepeating noises from their environment,in some cases sounds that they had only heard in thefirst weeks of life.In the recordings,the ducks made these sounds dozens of times in a matterof minutes,.at about4-second intervals(间隔).32.What is special about adult musk ducks raised in captivity?A.They can make high-pitched whistles.B.They join clephants in large forestsC.They repeat what they hear around.D.They create languages of their own.33.What does paragraph 4 mainly tell us?A.Studies on vocal learning.B.Fullagar's audio clips.C.A story about a talking duck.D.Fullagar's living condition34.What was Ten Cate's discovery?A.Female musk ducks can make vocal sounds.B.Musk ducks repeat what they hear as infants.C.Musk ducks repeat vocal sounds without pauseD.Musk ducks raised with other ducks make vocal sounds.35.What is the best title for the text?A.Australian Ducks Talk Like HumansB.Animals Are Smarter Than We ExpectC.What Vocal Language Can Animals LearnD.People Learn a Lot from Adult Musk Ducks省级联测第八次考试·高三英语第6页（共10页）