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Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Would a person born blind, who has learned to distinguish objects by touch, be able to recognize them purely by sight if he regained the ability to see? The question, known as Molyneux’s problem, is about whether the human mind has a built-in concept of shapes that is so innate(天生的) that such a blind person could immediately recognize an object with restored vision. The alternative is that the concepts of shapes are not innate but have to be learned by exploring an object through sight, touch and other senses.

After their attempt to test it in blind children failed, Lars Chittka of Queen Mary University of London and his colleagues have taken another attempt at finding an answer, this time using another species. To test whether bumblebees can form an internal representation of objects, they first trained the insects to distinguish globes from cubes using a sugar reward. The bees were trained in the light, where they could see but not touch the objects. Then they were tested in the dark, where they could touch but not see the globes or cubes. The researchers found that the bumblebees spent more time in contact with the shape they had been trained to associate with the sugar reward, even though they had to rely on touch rather than sight to distinguish the objects.

The researchers also did the reverse test with untrained bumblebees, first teaching them with rewards in the dark and then testing them in the light. Again, the bees were able to recognize the shape associated with the sugar reward, though they had to rely on sight rather than touch in the test. In short, bees have solved Molyneux's problem because the fact suggests that they can picture object features and access them through sight or touch.

However, some experts express their warnings. Jonathan Birch, a philosopher of science, cautions that the bees may have had prior experience associating visual and tactile(触觉的) information about straight edges and curved surfaces in the context of their nests, so it is not possible to eliminate the possibility that some of the cross-sensory concept is learned rather than innate.

 

Does the human mind have an innate concept of shapes? That is the famous Molyneux’s problem. To figure it out, scientists trained the bumblebees to distinguish shapes by sight but tested them to do it by touch. After the reverse text, they concluded that the bumblebees held the innate cross-sensory concept, which has been questioned by some experts. 【解析】 本题为概要写作,要求根据文章内容写一篇不多于60词的内容概要。原文是一篇说明文,主要介绍了科学家通过实验证实大黄蜂天生具有通过视觉与触觉辨物的能力,但亦有专家质疑实验的不严谨之处可能导致错误的结论。 概要写作要求学生以尽可能简明扼要的语言概括文章的主要内容,对英语功底要求较高。完成本题,应注意以下几点。 要点1——理清结构,概括内容: 文章第一段通过设问引入,提出了著名的莫利纽克斯问题——人的大脑中对于各种形状的概念(意识),是与生俱来的还是后天通过视觉和触觉习得的?第二、三段介绍了科学家为探寻真理,在人类身上的实验无法开展之后,转为在大黄蜂身上做实验:让大黄蜂通过视觉观物,而后让其通过触觉辨物;让大黄蜂通过触觉知物,而后让其通过视觉辨物。这两组实验都得出了大黄蜂对形状概念的视觉和触觉感知是与生俱来而非后天习得的。第四段介绍了科学家的质疑:在被实验之前,这些大黄蜂在生活中已经有过视觉与触觉感知信息的经历,因此并不能排除它们在实验中的表现是由于具有了先前的经验。 要点2——连词成句,精准表达: 进行写作时,应特别注意时态和人称问题。本文应使用第三人称时态,同时与原文时态保持同步:引入问题、做出结论和提出质疑使用一般现在时,具体介绍科学家的实验时使用一般过去时。写作时应注意使用连接词和从句,使上下文衔接自然。同时尽可能使用自己的表达,而不大段照抄原文,且语言表达要地道、生动。
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