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Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in reality
Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in reality
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2014-08-25
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Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in reality a member of a hunting group. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey(猎物)into a goal mouth. If his aim is accurate and he scores a goal, he enjoys the hunter’ s triumph of killing his prey.
To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look back at our forefathers. They spent over a million years evolving as cooperative hunters. Their very survival depended on success in the hunting field. Under this pressure their whole way of life, even their bodies, became greatly changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers. They cooperated as skillful male group attackers.
Then about ten thousand years ago, after this immensely long period of hunting their food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life, was put to a new use—that of controlling and domesticating their prey. The hunt became suddenly out of date. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of the hunt were no longer essential for survival. The skills and thirst for hunting remained, however, and demanded new outlets.
Hunting for sport replaced hunting for necessity. This new activity involved all the original hunting sequences, but the aim of the operation was no longer to avoid starvation. Instead the sportsmen set off to test their skills against prey that were no longer essential to their survival. To be sure, the kill may have been eaten, but there were other, much simpler ways of obtaining a meaty meal.
The word "operation"(Para. 4)refers to ______.
选项
A、domesticating animals
B、hunting
C、prey killing
D、sports activities
答案
D
解析
本段讲述新的狩猎行为——运动,虽然保留了原始狩猎行为的所有程序,但其目的已不再是为了避免饥饿。据此判断,operation即指正在谈论的sportsactivities这一行为。
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成人本科学位英语
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