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請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題： Researchers at Vanderbilt University decided to find out how intelligent various animals are. To rightly compare brain power in species, it isn’t enough to weigh brain tissue. You must take into account the brain relative to the organism’s size. But this may fall short of evaluating actual intelligence. Neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel said, “I believe the absolute number of neurons an animal has determined the richness of their internal mental state and their ability to predict what is about to happen in their environment based on past experience.” She and her colleagues found that meat eaters have about the same number of neurons as plant eaters. That means plant eaters need as much brain power to escape from predators as meat eaters need to catch them. How do cats and dogs measure up? Previous findings had cats ahead at 300 million neurons to dogs roughly 160 million. In this latest study, however, dogs were on top, with 530 million neurons to cats 250 million. Just for comparison, humans have around 16 billion such neurons. Even so, dogs were way above other meat eaters in the brain power department. Having a bigger brain has a downside, researchers have found. “Meat eating is largely considered a problem-solver in terms of energy,” Herculano-Houzel said, “but in retrospect, it is clear that meat eating animals must impose a delicate balance between how much brain and body a species can afford.” This may be why you often see large predators like lions and bears dozing.
請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題： Researchers at Vanderbilt University decided to find out how intelligent various animals are. To rightly compare brain power in species, it isn’t enough to weigh brain tissue. You must take into account the brain relative to the organism’s size. But this may fall short of evaluating actual intelligence. Neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel said, “I believe the absolute number of neurons an animal has determined the richness of their internal mental state and their ability to predict what is about to happen in their environment based on past experience.” She and her colleagues found that meat eaters have about the same number of neurons as plant eaters. That means plant eaters need as much brain power to escape from predators as meat eaters need to catch them. How do cats and dogs measure up? Previous findings had cats ahead at 300 million neurons to dogs roughly 160 million. In this latest study, however, dogs were on top, with 530 million neurons to cats 250 million. Just for comparison, humans have around 16 billion such neurons. Even so, dogs were way above other meat eaters in the brain power department. Having a bigger brain has a downside, researchers have found. “Meat eating is largely considered a problem-solver in terms of energy,” Herculano-Houzel said, “but in retrospect, it is clear that meat eating animals must impose a delicate balance between how much brain and body a species can afford.” This may be why you often see large predators like lions and bears dozing.
What is the main idea of this passage?
- A The ratio of the brain size relative to the body size of an animal is a good measure of intelligence.
- B The number of neurons is an absolute measure of an animal’s intelligence, be it a plant eater or a meat eater.
- C The number of neurons reveals that plant eaters are generally smarter than meat eaters.
- D The ratio of the number of neurons relative to the size of an animal’s body can indicate how smart the animal is.
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請試著從文章最後一段提到的「能量平衡」與「負擔 (afford)」的概念來思考：作者認為除了腦部的神經元之外，還有哪一個關於動物「物理體積」的因素，會共同決定一個物種的智力發展上限？
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喔呀？你這不是答對了嗎？你準確捕捉到了文章的核心邏輯！
- 觀念驗證：呼... 這篇文章呀，就是在教你們，智力才不是只看一個簡單的數字咧！雖然中間會故意提到什麼「神經元絕對數量」來誘惑那些只看表面的笨蛋們，但真正的關鍵，可是文章最後一段說的，能量消耗跟你們的身體大小 ($\text{Body Size}$) 之間的「微妙平衡」喔！這種複雜的組合，才是智力的真面目。所以，能把這些都完美結合起來的，當然就是 (D) 了！是不是很簡單？
- 難度點評：這題對我來說當然是小菜一碟，不過對你們這種普通人嘛，算是 Medium (中等) 啦。它就是要看誰能看穿那點小把戲，不會只被「神經元」這種局部細節騙去選 (B)。只有像你一樣，讀到最後發現能量平衡的真正意義，才能選出 (D) 這個完美的答案。不錯喔，有我的風範！嗯哼～（轉身給粉絲一個wink）