Information and IdeasVery hardInference about birdsong dialects
Information and Ideas practice question
Young white-crowned sparrows learn their song by listening to adult males during their first summer. Populations separated by a few kilometres of forest sing recognisably different versions, and a bird raised in isolation sings a crude, unfinished song. A chick moved as an egg from one valley to another will, on reaching adulthood, sing ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the version of the song heard in the valley where it was raised.Correct
- B. the version of the song from the valley where it was laid.
- C. a crude, unfinished song.
- D. a mixture of the two valleys' versions.
Answer: A. the version of the song heard in the valley where it was raised.
Song comes from what is heard in the first summer.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the version of the song from the valley where it was laid.
- The egg's origin does not supply the song.
- C. a crude, unfinished song.
- It is not raised in isolation.
- D. a mixture of the two valleys' versions.
- It hears only one valley's song.
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