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  3. The most famous case of an animal said to be capable of counting is that of a horse in Germany called Clever Hans. The episode【B

The most famous case of an animal said to be capable of counting is that of a horse in Germany called Clever Hans. The episode【B

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问题     The most famous case of an animal said to be capable of counting is that of a horse in Germany called Clever Hans. The episode【B1】______at the beginning of the present century. The horse’s owner【B2】______that animals can think and reason as we can and that this【B3】______can be brought out by training the animals. He trained Clever Hans to give the answers to【B4】______of arithmetic; the horse gave the【B5】______answer by tapping the right number of times with its forefoot.
    The animals gave the correct answers not only to【B6】______but also to other processes of arithmetic, including【B7】______fraction to decimals. It gave the right answers too when the questions were not spoken but【B8】______to it written on a card.
    【B9】______. The committee, after a careful investigation, found【B10】______, and that he b/ad not purposely trained his horse to stop tapping, and so to give a correct answer, by giving it a slight clue as is done with performing circus(马戏团)animals. The absence of such trickery(诡计)was proven by the fact【B11】______.
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答案This case was so much talked about in the newspapers that a committee was formed to investigate the astonishing powers of the horse．
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