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  3. The trend toward smaller families may not be as modern as we think, either. Although women gatherers had four or five children,

The trend toward smaller families may not be as modern as we think, either. Although women gatherers had four or five children,

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问题     The trend toward smaller families may not be as modern as we think, either. Although women gatherers had four or five children, only two typically survived childhood—the number found in the average American family today. Even our style of rearing children is starting to parallel hunting-gathering communities, in which girls and boys are permitted to play together from a young age, and consequently experiment at sex earlier and engage in trial marriages. Clearly we’ve moved away from the agricultural custom of arranged marriages and cloistering girls(玉女)to preserve their virginity.
    Moreover, the home is no longer the " lace of production" , as it was in farm days. We don’t make our soap, grow our vegetables and slaughter our chicken for the dinner table. Instead, we hunt and gather in the grocery store and return to our "home base" to consume the food we have collected. No wonder we are so in love with fast foods. It probably harks back to an eating strategy our primitive relatives adopted over 50 million years ago.
    There’s no mistaking the trend: humans are once again on the move. Husband and wife are no longer bound to a single plot of land for their livelihood. Women are back in production as well as reproduction. As we head back to the future, there’s every reason to believe the sexes will enjoy the kind of equality that is a function of our birthright. By equality, I mean a more equitable division of power—not that our roles will converge. Alike men and women have never been and never will be. Very simply, we think differently, which is again tied to our long hunting-gathering heritage.
    For 2 million years, women carried around children and have been the nurturers. That’s probably why tests show they are both more verbal and more attuned to nonverbal cues. Women, on the other hand, tend to have superior mathematical and visual-spatial skills because they roamed long distances from the campsite, had to scheme ways to trap prey and then had to find their way back. That specialization is reflected in genuine gender differences in the brain today. Nature not only intended men and women to put their bodies together; we’ve meant to put our heads together as well.
    That’s what’s so thrilling about what’s happening now. All those male and female skills are beginning to work together again. At long last, society is moving in a direction that should be highly compatible with our ancient human spirit.
It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that______.
选项 A、the way we bring up children is more closely related to custom in a hunting society than our eating habit is
B、people in primitive society also had a passion for fast food
C、our eating habit is more closely linked in a hunting society than with custom in an agricultural society
D、of the four or five children born into today’s American society, only two will survive
答案C
解析 由题干提示the fist two paragraphs定位至前两段。第二段中“家也不再是‘生产地’，因为现在不是农业社会了”说明我们的eatinghabit与农业社会无关，而用instead一词转而说明“我们在杂货店采购商品，然后回家享用我们选购的食物。难怪我们对快餐如此热衷。我们现在的饮食方式可能回到了5000万年前原始人所采用的方式。”由此可知，C)“我们的饮食习惯与狩猎时代风俗紧密相连，但与农业时代的联系不大”是正确的。
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