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Does a hummingbird fly like an insect or a bird? A bit like both, according to aerodynamic research. "What led us to this study
Does a hummingbird fly like an insect or a bird? A bit like both, according to aerodynamic research. "What led us to this study
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2020-03-31
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Does a hummingbird fly like an insect or a bird? A bit like both, according to aerodynamic research. "What led us to this study was the long-held view that hummingbirds fly like big insects," says Douglas Warrick, of Oregon State University in Corvallis. Many experts had argued that hummingbirds skill at hovering, of which insects are the undisputed masters, means that the two groups may stay aloft in the same way: by generating lift from a wing’s upstroke as well as the down.
This turns out to be only partially true. Other birds get all of their lift from the downstroke, and insects manage to get equal lift from both up and down beats, but the hummingbird lies somewhere in between.
Warrick and his team investigated the birds’ performance by looking at the swirls of air left in their wake. To do this, they trained rufous hummingbirds(Selasphorus rufus)to hover in place while feeding from a syringe filled with sugar solution. They filled the air with a mist of microscopic olive-oil droplets, and shone a sheet of laser light in various orientations through the air around the birds to catch two-dimensional images of air currents. A couple of quick photographs taken a quarter-second apart caught the oil droplets in the act of swirling around a wing.
Although hummingbirds do flap their wings up and down in relation to their body, they tend to hold their bodies upright so that their wings flap sideways in the air. To gain lift with each stroke the birds partially invert their wings, so that the aerofoil points in the right direction. Their flight looks a little like the arm and hand movements used by a swimmer when treading water, albeit it at a much faster pace.
Insects attain the same lift with both strokes because their wings actually turn inside out. A hummingbird, with wings of bone and feathers, isn’t quite so flexible. But the birds are still very efficient. "Their wings are a marvellous result of the considerable demands imposed by sustained hovering flight," Warrick says. "Provided with enough food, they can hover indefinitely."
The researchers add that the hummingbird’s flapping bears a striking resemblance to that of large insects such as hawkmoths, an example of how evolution can produce similar engineering solutions in hugely distant animal groups.
It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that______.
选项
A、most people think that hummingbirds and insects fly in a similar way
B、most people think that hummingbirds and birds fly in a similar way
C、few people think that hummingbirds are skilled at hovering
D、few people think that birds get their lift from up and down beats
答案
A
解析
属推断题。要做好这道题需正确理解前两段的意思。第一段提到了研究的结果,第一段第三句解释了进行这项研究的原因,即人们长期坚持的观点:认为蜂鸟像大型昆虫一样飞行。A选项符合此意,因此选A。
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