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Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behaviour. Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in realit
Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behaviour. Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in realit
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2014-04-23
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Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behaviour. 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 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 (驯养,驯化) 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 The hunt became suddenly out of date.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 starvatioa 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.
Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of the passage?
选项
A、Sporting activities satisfy the desire of modern man to exercise hunting skills which his forefathers developed for survival.
B、It is hunting that provides human beings with simpler ways of obtaining meaty meals.
C、Farming is very important in human civilization because it saves human beings from risks and uncertainties of hunting for survival.
D、It is farming that gives human beings enough leisure time for sporting activities.
答案
A
解析
本题是一道总结文章中心思想的问题。问下面哪个选项可以最好地总结本文的主题。参见1、2、4题题解和全文内容,我们可以得出全文的主旨是:现代体育活动取代了古代的狩猎活动,因为体育活动能满足现代人利用人类祖先为了生存而掌握了的各种狩猎技能。因此,本题的正确答案应是A。
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