阅读理解 I once knew a dog named Newton who had a unique sense o

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I once knew a dog named Newton who had a unique sense of humour.Whenever I tossed out a Frisbee for him to chase,he'd take off in hot pursuit but then seem to lose track of it.Moving back and forth only a yard of two from the toy,Newton would look all around,even up into the trees.He seemed genuinely puzzled.Finally,I'd give up and head into the field to help him out.But no sooner would I get within 10 ft.Of him than he would run invariably straight over to the Frisbee,grab it and start running like mad,looking over his shoulder with what looked suspiciously like a grin.
Just about every pet owner has a story like this and is eager to share it with anyone who will listen.On very short notice,TIME reporters cam up with 25 stories about what each is convinced is the smartest pet in the world.Among them:the cat who closes the door behind him when he goes into the bathroom; the cat who uses a toilet instead of a litter box...and flushes it afterward; the dog who goes wild when he sees his owner putting on blue jeans instead of a dress because jeans mean it is time to play; and the cat who used to wait patiently at the bus stop every day for a little girl,then walk her the six blocks home.And so on.
These behaviours are certainly clever,but what do they mean?Was Newton really deceiving?Can a cat really desire privacy in the toilet?In short,do household pets really have a mental and emotional life?Their owners think so,but until recently,animal-behaviour exports would have gone mad on hearing such a question.The worst sin in the worst sin in their moral vocabulary was anthropomorphism,projecting human traits onto animals.A dog or a cat might behave as if it were angry,lonely,sad,happy or confused,but that was only in the eye of the viewer.What was going on,they insisted was that the dog or cat had been conditioned,through a perhaps unintentional series of punishments and rewards,the behave certain way.The behaviour was a mechanical result of the training.
Questions:
36.What did Newton seem puzzled about?
37.Why does the author say Newton had unique sense of humour?
38.What made it possible for the TIME reporters to come up with so many interesting stories about pets?
39.What belief about pet behaviour was unacceptable to experts of animal behaviour?
40.What is the explanation of animal-behaviour experts for the "clever"behaviour of pets?

我曾经认识一个狗叫牛顿产生了一种独特的幽默感.每当我扔出一个飞盘让他追的话,他就会起飞,穷追不舍,但那似乎失去联系.穿梭只有一个院子里的玩具,牛顿两个会四处瞧瞧,甚至进了树林.他似乎真的感到困惑.最后,我想放弃,头往田野去帮助他.不过我可以在10英尺(3米).他比他会跑到飞盘总是直线,抓住它,开始跑得发疯,看着他的肩膀看起来似乎一笑.
几乎所有的宠物主人有一个象这样的故事和渴望分享给谁将听取他们的意见.在很短的时间通知,以25个故事的记者凸轮的关于这些确信是世界上最聪明的宠物.其中:猫谁关上身后的门时,他走进浴室,猫使用马桶而不是一个纸篓…和冲洗这之后,狗的时候,他看见他去野生主人把牛仔裤而不是一件衣服,因为牛仔裤意味着它是时间玩;猫曾在公共汽车站耐心等待一个小女孩每天步行她6块回家.等等.
这些行为当然是聪明的,而是有何意义?是牛顿真的欺骗?一只猫真的渴望能在厕所?隐私简而言之,做家庭宠物真的有精神和情感上的生活吗?他们的主人是这样认为的,但直到最近,animal-behaviour出口会疯听到这样一个问题.最严重的犯罪中最严重的犯罪,是道德的词汇anthropomorphism投射到动物的人类特质.狗和猫会表现得好像生气、孤独、悲伤、快乐和困惑,但这只是在观众面前.究竟发生了什么事,他们坚称,狗或猫被故意或者通过一系列的奖赏,始终如一的表现方式.这种行为是一种机械的培训.
问题:
36.牛顿似乎对什么呢?
37页.为什么作者说牛顿有独特的幽默感?
38.是什么促使了一次记者想出这么多有趣的故事的宠物吗?
39岁.关于宠物的行为是什么样的信仰所接受的动物行为的专家吗?
40.animal-behaviour的解释是什么专家为“聪明”的行为的宠物吗?