练习

【练习】

Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior.
Viewing biologically, the modern footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised __1

hunting pack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and he scores a goal, __2

enjoys the hunter’s triumph of killing his prey. __3

To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over a million __4

year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survival depended on success __5

in the hunting-field. Under this pressure their whole way of life, even if their __6

bodies, became radically changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-group __7

attackers.

Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely long formative __8

period of hunting for food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence,

so vital to their old hunting life, were put to a new use—that of penning, __9

controlling and domesticating their prey. The food was there on the farms,awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of farming were no longer __10

essential for survival.

答案

【答案】

1 将viewing改为viewed

非谓语动词view和句子的主语是逻辑动宾关系。

2 将inaccurate改为accurate

如果真的目标不准确，也就不可能进球了（he scores a goal）。

3 在enjoys前面加he

由于前面if his aim is accurate and he scores a goal 是条件状语从句，因此可见这里是主句，主句的主语he是不可以省略的。

4 将look up at的up省略

5 将year变为复数

6 将if去掉

7 将co-operate 改为co-operated

8 将when改为after

9将were改为was

该谓语动词的主语是Their improved intelligence，是单数。

10 将farming改为hunting

纵观全文，在从事种植业后，“狩猎”而不是“农耕”的危险和不确定性对人们的生存已经不再那么重要了。