공통영어1 미래엔 김성연 1과 본문 빈칸 채우기 퀴즈

It’s good to ____ you, everyone! I’m Dr. Edward Wilson, an evolutionary biologist.

Thank you for inviting me here ____.

On my way, I ____ trouble locating this room.

Luckily, a friendly student came up to me and walked me ____.

____ fascinating how, in situations like this, we want to help someone in need.

Now, this raises some ____ questions: where does our friendliness come from, and why is it important?

To answer ____ questions, I’d like to tell you about my childhood companion dog, Sparky.

When we played with a ball, I noticed that he ____ well to my gestures.

The ____ behavior of dogs also caught the attention of an evolutionary anthropologist, Brian Hare.

He conducted an experiment to see how dogs would respond to human gestures compared to wolves, who share the same ____ ancestor.

He placed two cups on the ground with food ____ under only one of them.

When he pointed to the cup with the food, the dogs found it ____.

The wolves, however, struggled and ____ cups at random, paying no attention to his gestures.

Dr. Hare concluded that the dogs’ ability to read human gestures allowed ____ to perform better than the wolves.

He explained that dogs, unlike wolves, have developed ____ skills with humans and a sense of friendliness.

This explanation sounds reasonable according to ____ evolutionary biologists.

They say that from the common ____ of these two species, those that acted friendly toward humans evolved into dogs, and those that didn’t became wolves.

Furthermore, Dr. Hare suggested that the friendly nature of dogs ____ provided them a survival advantage that allowed their population to grow larger than that of wolves.

____ give you another example of how friendliness is related to survival.

Dr. Hare and his colleagues ____ an experiment with chimpanzees and bonobos.

Although the two are genetically similar, they are different in ____.

To study their cooperative behavior, Dr. Hare’s team set up a device ____ required two individuals to pull both ends of a rope at the same time in order to access food on a board.

When placed with partners that the chimpanzees knew, they were able to work ____ to get the food.

However, when paired with new partners, the chimpanzees usually failed to ____ the food, and when they occasionally succeeded, they did not share the food with their partner.

The bonobos, on the other hand, got ____ much better than the chimpanzees.

They solved the problem regardless of which individual they were paired with, and they were also ____ willing to share the food.

This research shows that ____ have a cooperative and friendly nature.

____ suggest that their nature has helped their species survive.

____ these characteristics, they could have faced extinction.

Now let’s turn our attention to ourselves, ____ sapiens.

____ have we managed to survive for so long?

Neanderthals existed together with Homo sapiens until about 40,000 years ____, and they were known to be intelligent and physically superior to Homo sapiens.

Neanderthals were able to make tools and f ire and had strong bodies with well-developed muscles and ____ shoulders.

Despite these attributes, however, it was Homo sapiens who ____ survived and thrived.

____ possible explanation is that our ancestors lived in larger communities that promoted cooperation and the free exchange of knowledge, while Neanderthals tended to live in smaller groups.

These social differences may have given ____ sapiens a competitive advantage over Neanderthals, allowing them to adapt to an ever-changing environment.

In our competitive society, many people believe that ____ the biggest or the strongest can survive and thrive.

However, I propose an alternative ____: kindness is the key to success.

Isn’t that a comforting thought? We can use the power of our ____ kindness to communicate and cooperate with different individuals.

We can all benefit from this instead of trying to be ____ than others.

I’d like to end this talk with a message. ____ of our society as a bouquet.

Just as each flower adds to the beauty when it harmonizes with the others, each person can contribute to a more beautiful ____ when they cooperate.

By being kind and working together, we can truly flourish. Thank you for your ____.