Итоговый тест для 10 класса

Little girls watch and learn; little boys don’t pay attention and play around. At least, this seems to be the 1____  with chimpanzees, according to new research.

Chimpanzees in the wild 2____ to snack on termites,

and youngsters learn to fish for them by poking long sticks and other 3____ tools into the mounds that large groups of termites build.

Researchers found that 4____ average female chimps in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania learnt how to do termite fishing at the age of 31 months, more than two years earlier than the males.

The females seem to learn by watching their mothers. Researcher Dr. Elisabeth V. Lonsdorf said that it is 5____ to find that, when a young male and female are near a mound,

‘she’s really focusing on termite fishing and he’s spinning himself round 6____ circles.’

The behavior of both sexes may seem 7____ to many parents

Dr. Lonsdorf said, adding, ‘The sex differences we found in the chimps are 8____  to some of the findings from human child development research.’