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When, in the age of automation, man searches for a worker to do the tedious, unpleasant jobs that are more or less impossible to
When, in the age of automation, man searches for a worker to do the tedious, unpleasant jobs that are more or less impossible to
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2013-12-10
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When, in the age of automation, man searches for a worker to do the tedious, unpleasant jobs that are more or less impossible to mechanize, he may very profitably consider the ape.
If we tackled the problem of breeding for brains with as much enthusiasm as we devote to breeding dogs of surrealistic shapes, we could eventually produce assorted models of useful primates, ranging in size from the gorilla down to the baboon(狒狒), each adapted to a special kind of work. It is not putting too much strain on the imagination to assume that geneticists could produce a super-ape, which is able to understand some scores of words and capable of being trained for such jobs as picking fruit, clearing up the litter in parks, shining shoes, collecting garage, doing household chores and even baby-sitting, although I have known some babies I would not care to trust with a valuable ape.
Apes could do many jobs, such as cleaning streets and the more repetitive types of agricultural work, without supervision, though they might need protection from those
egregious
specimens of human beings who think it amusing to tease or bully anything they consider lower on the evolutionary ladder. For other tasks, such as delivering papers and laboring on the docks, our man-ape would have to work under human overseers; and, incidentally, I would love to see the ending of the twenty-first century version of On the Waterfront in which
the honest but hairy hero
will drum on his chest after — literally — taking the wicked labor leader apart.
Once a supply of nonhuman workers become available, a whole range of low IQ jobs could be thankfully given up by mankind, so its great mental and physical advantage. What is more, one of the problems which has annoyed so many fictional Utopias would be avoided: there would be none of the degradingly subhuman Epsilons of Huxley’s Brave New World to act as a permanent reproach to society, for there is a profound moral difference between breeding sub-men and super-apes, though the end products are much the same. The first would introduce a form of slavery, but the second would be a biological triumph which could benefit both men and animals.
The word "egregious"(Line 3, Para. 3)could best be replaced by______.
选项
A、social
B、hospitable
C、wicked
D、hostile
答案
C
解析
根据题干信号词egregious以及出处提示Para.3可回文定位到第三段首句Apes could do many jobs,such as cleaning streets and the more repetitive types of agricultural work,without supervision,though they might need(protection from)those egregious specimens of human beings(who think it amusing to tease or bully anything they consider lower on the evolutionary ladder)(猿猴在没有监管的情况下可以做许多工作,比如打扫街道或做些重复性较高的农活,然而它们也许需要保护,以免遭受某些……人类的伤害,这些人把戏弄和欺凌他们觉得在进化等级方面低等的物种视为一种乐趣),鉴于词汇推断题的解题思路是关注问题词汇的上文或下文信息,找寻线索,作分析推断,考生应重点关注本句的两处括弧处的表达:根据前面的protection from(得到保护以免受……)可知egregious应是负面消极词,再根据后面的括弧定语从句(把戏弄和欺凌其他物种视为乐趣)可具体得知这些人是“缺德的”或“邪恶的”,故C项正确。
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