真题演练
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……关在圈中), ___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___
参考答案及解析：
1. Viewing -> viewed
本句的主语the modern footballer也就是view的逻辑主语，两者之间为被动关系。
2. inaccurate -> accurate
根据上下文，显然inaccurate使句意前后矛盾，若目标不正确，就不可能score a goal。故应该把inaccurate改为accurate。
3. enjoys前加he
这是由一个条件状语从句引导的复合句。但主句只有谓语动词enjoys，缺少主语，因此要步上主语。根据从句的his aim可推断应该加上主语he。
4. up -> / 或 back
表示“看，了解一下”时，只能用look at。
5. year -> years
6. if -> /
even if 表示“即使”，后接分句。本句的大意是说压力让人们发生了变化，一是生活方式，二是身体。此处只能用even“甚至”来引导their bodies，表示递进。
7. cooperate -> cooperated
事情是our ancient ancestors在过去所从事的，所以要用一般过去时。
8. when -> after
this immensely long formative period of hunting for food是名词短语，when 后面不能接名词及其短语作时间状语，故when使用不当，根据句子的意思应该改为after。
9.were -> was
本句的主语是 Their improved intelligence，intelligence表示“智力，智能”时是不可数名词，谓语动词要用单数。
10. farming -> hunting
根据上下文，这里说的是狩猎。
