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The Japanese Macaca monkey has been studied in the wild for over 50 years. In 1952 ,on one small Japanese island,scientists dropped some
1 dirt for the monkeys. The monkeys liked their taste,but they found the dirt
2 .
One clever 18-month-old monkey
3 the problem by washing the sweet potatoes in a nearby river. She taught this to her mother. Her
4 also learned this new way and they taught their mothers too.
All the younger monkeys
5 learned to wash the dirty sweet potatoes to make them
6 to eat. But many found it very hard to learn this and still ate the
7 sweet potatoes.
Then something
8 .In the autumn of 1958,scientists found that the monkeys on other nearby
9 began washing their sweet potatoes too. Scientists still don't fully understand how this knowledge was
10 from one island to another.
( )1.A. sweet potatoes
( )2.A. beautiful
( )3.A. find
( )4.A. children
( )5.A. quietly
( )6.A. nicer
( )7.A. small
( )8.A. took on
( )9.A. trees
( )10.A. lost