2013年英语六级改错试题及答案之九
Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modern footballer is revealed as a S1.________ member of a disguised hunting pack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate S2.________ and he scores a goal, enjoys the hunter's triumph of killing his prey. S3._________
To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over a S4.________ million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survival S5._______ depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressure their whole way of life, even if their bodies, became radically changed. They became S6.________ chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers.
They co-operate as skillful male-group attackers. S7.________ Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely long S8.________ formative period of hunting for food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life, were put to a new S9._______ use-that of penning ( 把……关在圈中), controlling and domesticating their prey. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival. S10._______
参考答案:
S1. Viewing→Viewed
S2. inaccurate→accurate
S3. (,)∧(enjoys)→he
S4. up→/
S5. year→years
S6. if→/
S7. co-operate→co-operated
S8. when→after
S9. were→was
S10.farming→hunting
(编辑:鸿雁)