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24.How might Allyson Felix have felt about the latest award a few years ago?B.Disappointed.C.Uncaring.D.Excited.A.Content.25.What does the underlined word"underdogs"probably refer to?A.Hungry dogs.B.Losing athletes.C.Lonely animals.D.Successful teams.26.Why did Allyson Felix often ery in the corners of Olympic stadiums?A.She did not get any medal.B.She was afraid of her competitors.C.She only got bronze medals.D.She always failed to get the top prize.27.What did Allyson Felix mean in the last paragraph?A.She stopped having high expectations.B.She was very sure she would lose again.C.She still felt optimistic about the outcome.D.She was happy to learn the truth about life.When Snowball,a male cockatoo(凤头鹦鹉)，was shown last year in a YouTube videoapparently moving in time to pop music,he immediately became an Internet star.But onlynow scientists have begun to study his dancing."Real dancing should require that Snowball adjust his movements to match differentmusic speeds,"said Aniruddh Patel,one of the researchers from Tufts University.约To examine this,Patel and his colleagues created some new music and played it forSnowball to dance in his favorite spots.They changed the speed of the music in small stepsand videoed his dancing."To our surprise,when the music speed was slow,his dancing slowed down.When themusic was faster,his dancing sped up,too."says Patel."Above all,we were really shockedto see that Snowball even taught himself different dance moves."Based on their research,the researchers further identified some amazing abilities in theanimal:the abilities to understand complex sounds and learn movements,communicativegestures and the tendency to build long-term social bonds,which parrots can form withhumans and other parrots."The ability to dance was believed to be uniquely human until this research,"saidTecumseh Fitch,a biologist at the University of St.Andrews in Scotland who is interested inthe origin of music."Their study has opened ways for all kinds of new experiments.Forexample,what genes are turned on while a bird is dancing?And what would happen if a birdnever heard any music for the first few years of its life?Could it still dance later on?Thatwould be an interesting study and one that could never be done on children."28.What is the key ability in real dancing according to Patel?A.Learning new movements.B.Using communicative gestures.C.Moving the body to different music speeds.D.Understanding different and confusing sounds.29.What did the researchers from Tufts University say about Snowball?A.It even could dance with some creativity.B.It usually danced in one of his favorite spots.C.It just danced to the music with the same beat.D.It preferred its own music and dancing styles.30.What is the significance of the research according to Tecumseh Fitch?A.It is the first time to study animal dancing.B.It has identified the dancing genes in the brain.【2022年冲刺卷（四）·英语第4页（共8页）】新高考Ⅱ