a．People hear a bird in a tree say“Hello there！”．

　　b．The pet parrot escaped from its cage.

　　c．A flock of wild parrots learned to speak from the escaped“speaker”．

　　d．A pet parrot picked up some sentences from its owner.

　　e．The pet parrot joined a flock of wild birds.

　　A．h, c, d, a, e

　　B．e, a, c, d, b

　　C．d, b, e, c, a

　　D．e, b, c, a, d

　　解析　细节理解题。根据第二段和第四段的信息可知，C项符合文章所陈述的事实的顺序。

　　答案　C

　　4．We can learn from the passage that________.

　　A．parrots like to learn to speak human language

　　B．younger birds are most likely to learn the language from the escaped parrots

　　C．parrots can learn to speak from each other, whether old or young

　　D．parrots flock together because they speak the same language

　　解析　细节理解题。从文章第四段的第二、三、四句可知，幼鸟更有可能跟逃出来的会说话的宠物鹦鹉学习人类的习惯用语。

　　答案　B

　　B

　　In 1890 William James, the American philosopher and physician and one of the founders of modern psychology, defined psychology as “the science of mental life” and this definition provides a good starting point for our understanding even today. We all have a mental life and therefore have some idea about what this means, even though it can be studied in rats or monkeys as well as in people and the concept remains difficult to understand.

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