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　　Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of

　　hunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modern footballer __1__

　　is revealed as a 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 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 ___4___

　　million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survival ___5___

　　depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressure

　　their whole way of life, even if their bodies, became radicaily ___6___

　　changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers,

　　throwers and prey-killers. They cooperate as skillful male-group ___7___

　　attackers.

　　Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely ___8___

　　long formative 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 (把……關(guān)在圈中), ___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 essential for survival. ___10___

　　參考答案及解析：

　　1. Viewing -> viewed

　　本句的主語(yǔ)the modern footballer也就是view的邏輯主語(yǔ)，兩者之間為被動(dòng)關(guān)系。

　　2. inaccurate -> accurate

　　根據(jù)上下文，顯然inaccurate使句意前后矛盾，若目標(biāo)不正確，就不可能score a goal。故應(yīng)該把inaccurate改為accurate。

　　3. enjoys前加he

　　這是由一個(gè)條件狀語(yǔ)從句引導(dǎo)的復(fù)合句。但主句只有謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞enjoys，缺少主語(yǔ)，因此要步上主語(yǔ)。根據(jù)從句的his aim可推斷應(yīng)該加上主語(yǔ)he。

　　4. up -> / 或 back

　　表示“看，了解一下”時(shí)，只能用look at。

　　5. year -> years

　　6. if -> /

　　even if 表示“即使”，后接分句。本句的大意是說(shuō)壓力讓人們發(fā)生了變化，一是生活方式，二是身體。此處只能用even“甚至”來(lái)引導(dǎo)their bodies，表示遞進(jìn)。

　　7. cooperate -> cooperated

　　事情是our ancient ancestors在過(guò)去所從事的，所以要用一般過(guò)去時(shí)。

　　8. when -> after

　　this immensely long formative period of hunting for food是名詞短語(yǔ)，when 后面不能接名詞及其短語(yǔ)作時(shí)間狀語(yǔ)，故when使用不當(dāng)，根據(jù)句子的意思應(yīng)該改為after。

　　9.were -> was

　　本句的主語(yǔ)是 Their improved intelligence，intelligence表示“智力，智能”時(shí)是不可數(shù)名詞，謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞要用單數(shù)。

　　10. farming -> hunting

　　根據(jù)上下文，這里說(shuō)的是狩獵。

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