2024年4月16日发(作者：荆语海)

上宝中学初三首字母阅读练习10篇

（1）

When an animal helps another animal, it usually gets something valuable in return.

For a long time, many scientists thought that only people could act generously just

because it feels good.

However, a new s 1 in Germany suggests that chimpanzees (an animal like a

large monkey without a tail) also do good things for no real reason. And so do

children who are as young as 18 months of age. Maybe it is because humans and

chimpanzees s 2 an ancestor about 6 million years ago.

People and chimpanzees appear to develop such features without any other t 3 ,

says Warneken, a scientist in Germany.

Warneken and his partners worked on adult chimpanzees that live on an island in

the African country of Uganda. They also worked with 18-month-old children in

Germany. The researchers performed three experiments on the adult chimpanzees and

two experiments on the kids. In the first a 4 experiment，a person tried to reach his

arm into a cage to get a stick，but he couldn’t reach it. A chimpanzee was in the cage，

and it could reach the stick if it wanted to.

Thirty-six chimpanzees took part in this experiment one by one, and no

chimpanzee saw what the other chimpanzees had done. Even though the animals

hadn’t m 5 the person before, they usually took the stick and gave it to the person.

What’s more, they did this whether or not the person offered them bananas as a reward.

In the next experiment, 36 children acted in a s 6 way. They helped the person

reach the stick, whether or not they were offered toys for their help.

Researchers did other experiments on chimpanzees and babies. No rewards were

offered in either experiment. And s 7 , both the chimpanzees and children went out of

their way to help. Still, the new study is different from earlier findings. Researchers

have found that chimpanzees don’t give rewards of food to other chimpanzees, even if

it costs them nothing to be generous.

(2)

Mary Kay is a well-known American businesswoman. Her company, Mary Kay

Cosmetics Inc. , is a very successful company which s 1 cosmetics (化妆品) and

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employs people all over the world. She became successful through hard work and she

has a strong belief in herself.

Mary Kay was born in America. Soon after she started school, her father became

ill. Her mother worked 14 hours a day in a restaurant to s 2 the family. Mary Kay had

to do housework, cook, and take care of her father.

After high school, her family couldn't afford to send her to college. So she got

married and started a family. Then she started her sales career. At first, she sold books.

Later, she visited people's homes to sell home care products. Mary Kay was successful

selling those products. Her managers praised her work but never raised her pay. It t 3

her that men didn't believe that a woman could succeed in business. She decided to

prove them wrong.

In 1963, Mary Kay started her own company. It sold many skin care and beauty

products. Today the company has sales of more than 1,000 million dollars and

employs more than 800,000 sales representatives in 37 countries around the world and

most of them are w 4 .

Mary Kay shared with her employees her life motto—Belief first; Family second;

Career third. Every year, she held an “Awards Night” and awarded a pink Cadillac car,

diamond jewelries and 5-star vacations to s 5 employees. She praised them, not just

money. The company wants

2

2024年4月16日发(作者：荆语海)

上宝中学初三首字母阅读练习10篇

（1）

When an animal helps another animal, it usually gets something valuable in return.

For a long time, many scientists thought that only people could act generously just

because it feels good.

However, a new s 1 in Germany suggests that chimpanzees (an animal like a

large monkey without a tail) also do good things for no real reason. And so do

children who are as young as 18 months of age. Maybe it is because humans and

chimpanzees s 2 an ancestor about 6 million years ago.

People and chimpanzees appear to develop such features without any other t 3 ,

says Warneken, a scientist in Germany.

Warneken and his partners worked on adult chimpanzees that live on an island in

the African country of Uganda. They also worked with 18-month-old children in

Germany. The researchers performed three experiments on the adult chimpanzees and

two experiments on the kids. In the first a 4 experiment，a person tried to reach his

arm into a cage to get a stick，but he couldn’t reach it. A chimpanzee was in the cage，

and it could reach the stick if it wanted to.

Thirty-six chimpanzees took part in this experiment one by one, and no

chimpanzee saw what the other chimpanzees had done. Even though the animals

hadn’t m 5 the person before, they usually took the stick and gave it to the person.

What’s more, they did this whether or not the person offered them bananas as a reward.

In the next experiment, 36 children acted in a s 6 way. They helped the person

reach the stick, whether or not they were offered toys for their help.

Researchers did other experiments on chimpanzees and babies. No rewards were

offered in either experiment. And s 7 , both the chimpanzees and children went out of

their way to help. Still, the new study is different from earlier findings. Researchers

have found that chimpanzees don’t give rewards of food to other chimpanzees, even if

it costs them nothing to be generous.

(2)

Mary Kay is a well-known American businesswoman. Her company, Mary Kay

Cosmetics Inc. , is a very successful company which s 1 cosmetics (化妆品) and

1

employs people all over the world. She became successful through hard work and she

has a strong belief in herself.

Mary Kay was born in America. Soon after she started school, her father became

ill. Her mother worked 14 hours a day in a restaurant to s 2 the family. Mary Kay had

to do housework, cook, and take care of her father.

After high school, her family couldn't afford to send her to college. So she got

married and started a family. Then she started her sales career. At first, she sold books.

Later, she visited people's homes to sell home care products. Mary Kay was successful

selling those products. Her managers praised her work but never raised her pay. It t 3

her that men didn't believe that a woman could succeed in business. She decided to

prove them wrong.

In 1963, Mary Kay started her own company. It sold many skin care and beauty

products. Today the company has sales of more than 1,000 million dollars and

employs more than 800,000 sales representatives in 37 countries around the world and

most of them are w 4 .

Mary Kay shared with her employees her life motto—Belief first; Family second;

Career third. Every year, she held an “Awards Night” and awarded a pink Cadillac car,

diamond jewelries and 5-star vacations to s 5 employees. She praised them, not just

money. The company wants

2