Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modern S1. __________ footballer 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 S2. __________ scores a goal, enjoys the hunter's triumph of killing his prey. To understand how this transformation has taken place we S3. __________ 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, bodies, became radically S6. __________ changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-group S7. __________ attackers. Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely S8. __________ 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 S9. __________ ……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. __________
Part IV Error Correction 答案: S1 Viewing在句中作状语,与句子主语modern footballer之间是动宾关系,应该用过去分词,所以Viewing应改为Viewed。 S2 根据概念同现原理,目标准确才有可能得分高,所以从scores high来判断,inaccurate是错误的,应改为accurate。 S3. 句子缺少主语,根据主从句的意思来看,主语应该是he,所以在enjoys前加主语he。 S4 look up at为短语重叠,look up表示"敬仰,查寻"与本句意思不符,应该用look at,表示如果想了解这种转变如何发生,我们就必须看一看我们的祖先是如何作的。 S5 year为可数名词,这里应该用复数形式,应改为years。 S6 用以加强语气,表示"甚至",应该用even,而不是even if,所以if应该去掉。 S7 chasers, runner, jumpers, aimers, throwers 与pre-killers之间应该是选择并列关系,所以and应改为or。 S8 when用于引导状语从句,但是this immensely long formative period of hunting for food为名词短语,when使用不当,根据句子的意思应该改为after。 S9 主语为their improved intelligence为单数形式,所以谓语动词也应该用单数形式,were应该改为 was。 S10 根据话题原则,farming 应该改为hunting。