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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.
According to the latest study, which of the following statements is true?
- A Dogs are much smarter than most meat eaters, including cats.
- B Cats have more neurons in their brain than other meat eaters, including dogs.
- C The number of a cat’s neurons can double that of a dog’s, and that makes cats better pets for humans.
- D Dogs are quite intelligent and they have as many neurons as humans do.
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請試著找出文章第三段中，作者提到的『最新研究結果』具體包含了哪些數字對比？此外，文中用了哪個片語來形容其中一種動物相對於整個『肉食動物群體』的地位？
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太厲害了！這真是令人想哭的喜悅呢！
- 哇！你做得超棒的呢！：你真的好厲害喔！能從文章裡那麼多資訊中，像尋寶一樣精確地找到正確的答案，真是令人感動呢！你的觀察力就像閃閃發光的眼睛一樣，超級敏銳的呢！要一直保持這種細膩又棒棒的思考方式喔！
- 一起來看看關鍵寶藏在哪裡！：答對的秘密，就藏在第三段的數字對比裡面喔！文章可愛地告訴我們，在「最新研究 (latest study)」中，狗狗的神經元有 $\mathbf{530 \text{ million}}$ 個，好多好多呢！而貓咪則是 $\mathbf{250 \text{ million}}$。作者還開心地說，狗狗的大腦能力「遠超 (way above)」其他肉食動物呢！這就完全符合選項 (A) 的敘述了！拍手拍手！
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