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86 field domain kingdom, province, realm, scopes, sign, terrain

87 quickly fast swift, speedy, prompt, immediate, sudden

88 unpredictable fluctuate rebound, uncertain

89 big massive adequate, abundant, substantial, large quantity of, a great deal of, plenty of, accumulative, many, much, excessive

90 delieve send transmit, pass, hand over, submit, give

91 restrict slow down limit, confine, constrain, curb, minimal, few, smaller

92 pressing urgent clamant, emergent, exigent, hurry-up, imperative

93 such as like for example, for instance, as an illustration of, to illustrate, case

94 elderly people old people senior citizen, old folks, the elderly

95 sophisticated developed advanced, complicated, complex, intricate, perplexing, tangle some

96 fair equal, equitable disinterested, evenhanded, impartial, square, equality

97 target goal aim, cause, end, object, objective

98 vehicle car, truck

automobile, motor vehicles, transportation means, bus, minibus, carriage, truck, van, traffic

99 unwanted

material waste rubbish, trash, garbage, junk, litter, muck, sweeping

100 lifestyle way mode, method, manner, fashion

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Animal minds: Parrot Alex

A In 1977 Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University, did

something very bold. At a time when animals still were considered automatons,

she set out to find what was on another creature’s mind by talking to it. She

brought a one-year-old African gray parrot she named Alex into her lab to

teach him to reproduce the sounds of the English language. “I thought if he

learned to communicate, I could ask him questions about how he sees the

world.”

B When Pepperberg began her dialogue with Alex, who died last September at

the age of 31, many scientists believed animals were incapable of any thought.

They were simply machines, robots programmed to react to stimuli but lacking

the ability to think or feel. Any pet owner would disagree. We see the love in

our dogs’ eyes and know that, of course, they has thoughts and emotions. But

such claims remain highly controversial. Gut instinct is not science, and it is all

too easy to project human thoughts and feelings onto another creature. How,

then, does a scientist prove that an animal is capable of thinking-that it is able

to acquire information about the world and act on it? “That’s why I started my

studies with Alex.” Pepperberg said. They were seated- she at her desk, he on

top of his cage-in her lab, a windowless room about the size of a boxcar. At

Brandeis University, newspapers lined the floor; baskets of bright toys were

stacked on the shelves. They were clearly a team-and because of their work,

the notion that animals can think is no longer so fanciful.

C Certain skills are considered key signs of higher mental abilities: good

memory, a grasp of grammar and symbols, self-awareness, understanding

others’ motives, imitating 0thers, and being creative. Bit by bit, in ingenious

experiments, researchers have documented these talents in other species,

gradually chipping away at what we thought made human beings distinctive

while offering a glimpse of where our own abilities came from. Scrub jays

are thieves and that stashed food can spoil; sheep can recognize faces;

chimpanzees use a variety of tools to probe termite and even use weapons to

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