The history of the chicken

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题目与答案

1. 14 Chicken is globally popular because it can be used for different styles of cooking.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
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   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：Chicken is the universal food of our era, crossing cultural boundaries with ease. With its mild and uniform flavor, it adapts easily to any cuisine

2. 15 Chickens have poor capacity for flight compared to junglefowl.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
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   答案：NOT GIVEN

   原文定位：That's about as much flying as it can manage, a trait that made it relatively easy for humans to capture and domesticate it

3. 16 Scientists believe that the domestic chicken has more than one ancestor.
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   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：But the red junglefowl is not the sole ancestor of the modern chicken. Scientists have identified three closely related species that might have bred with the red junglefowl

4. 17 A modern chicken has the same skin colour as the grey junglefowl.
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   • FALSE
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   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：However, recent research suggests that modern chickens inherited at least one trait, their yellow skin, from the grey junglefowl of southern India

5. 18 Some people criticise the methods involved in factory farming chickens.
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   • FALSE
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   答案：NOT GIVEN

6. 19 After the Roman Empire ended, chicken consumption in Europe declined.
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   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：But the chicken's status in Europe appears to have diminished with the collapse of Rome. In the period after the fall of the Roman Empire, chicken farms vanished and the birds returned to the size they had been 1,000 years earlier

7. 19 After the Roman Empire ended, chicken consumption in Europe declined.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
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   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：But the chicken's status in Europe appears to have diminished with the collapse of Rome. In the period after the fall of the Roman Empire, chicken farms vanished and the birds returned to the size they had been 1000 years earlier

8. 20 In the USA, fewer people are keeping expensive breeds of chicken at home.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
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   答案：FALSE

   原文定位：In the USA, exotic and heritage breeds of chicken are being sold for considerable sums of money as the fashion for keeping chickens in the backyard becomes more popular

9. 21 Chickens were seen as _____ symbolic contexts. in some ancient societies, such as in religious or symbolic context.

   答案：sacred

   原文定位：Chickens were, and still are, a sacred animal in some cultures

10. 22 The red junglefowl sleeps in trees at night and eats _____ and small animals during the day.

    答案：seeds;fruit

    原文定位：In its habitat, which stretches from northeastern India to the Philippines, the red junglefowl looks on the forest floor for insects, seeds and fruit, and flies up to nest in the trees at night

11. 23 In Egypt, chickens were used as both zoo animals and _____ .

    答案：fighting birds

    原文定位：Chickens arrived in Egypt in around 1750 BC, as fighting birds and additions to zoos

12. 24 The Roman method of cooking chicken included stuffing and making an ....................... .

    答案：omelette

    原文定位：Chickens were a delicacy among the Romans, whose culinary innovations included the omelette, and the practice of stuffing birds for cooking

13. 25 The use of antibiotics and vitamins helped chickens survive _____ and predators.

    答案：bad weather

    原文定位：This allowed chickens to be raised indoors and be protected from cold temperatures and heavy rain as well as predators

14. 26 Chicken meat is more efficient to produce than beef, requiring less _____ .

    答案：feed;grain

    原文定位：It takes less than 1 kilogram of feed to produce 400 grams of chicken. By comparison, around 3 kilograms of feed are required to produce 400 grams of beef