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Only two animals have entered the human household otherwise than as prisoners and become domesticated by other means than those
Only two animals have entered the human household otherwise than as prisoners and become domesticated by other means than those
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2013-01-22
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问题
Only two animals have entered the human household otherwise than as prisoners and become domesticated by other means than those of enforce servitude (束缚): the dog and the cat. Two things they have in common, namely, that both belong to the order of carnivores and both serve man in their capacity of hunters.
In all other characteristics, above all in the manner of their association with man, they are as different as the night from the day. There is no domestic animal which has so rapidly altered its whole way of living, indeed its whole sphere of interests, that has become domestic in so true a sense as the dog; and there is no animal that, in the course of its century-old association with man, has altered so little as the cat. There is some truth in the assertion that the cat, with the exception of a few luxury breeds, such as Angoras, Persians and Siamese, is no domestic animal but a completely wild being. Maintaining its full independence, it has taken up its abode in the house and outhouses of man, for the simple reason that there are more mice there than elsewhere. The whole charm of the dog lies in the depth of the friendship and the strength of the spiritual ties with which he has bound himself to man, but the appeal of the cat lies in the very fact that she has formed no close bond with him, that she has the uncompromising independence of a tiger or a leopard while she is hunting in his stables and barns; that she still remains mysterious and remote when she is rubbing herself gently against the leg of her mistress or purring contentedly in front of the fire.
I should no more like to be without a cat in my home than to be without the dog that trots behind me in field or street. Since my earliest youth I have always had dogs and cats about me. Business-like friends have advised me to write a dog-book and a cat-book separately, because dog-lovers dislike cats and cat- lovers frequently abhor dogs. But I consider it the finest test of genuine love and understanding of animals if a person has sympathies for both these creatures, and can appreciate in each its own special virtue.
The passage concludes that ______.
选项
A、dogs are more domesticated than cats
B、dogs are more lovable than cats
C、though different, dogs and cats have their own charms
D、both dogs and cats can be kept as pets in one house
答案
C
解析
主旨题 选项A“狗比猫更驯化一些”和选项D“猫和狗作为宠物可以相安无事地生活在一起”都只是文章提到的细节,不是结论;选项B“狗是比猫更可爱的动物”文中未提到:选项C“虽然有区别,但猫和狗都有各自吸引人的地方”是全文的中心论点。
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