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[单项选择]A strange thing about humans is their capacity for blind rage. Rage is presumably an emotion resulting from survival instinct, but the surprising thing about it is that we do not deploy it against other animals. If we encounter a dangerous wild animal--a poisonous snake or a wild cat--we do not fly into a temper. If we are unarmed, we show fear and attempt to back away; if we are suitably armed, we attack, but in a rational manner not in a rage. We reserve rage for our own species. ①It is hard to see any survival value in attacking one’s own, but if we take account of the long competition which must have existed between our own subspecies and other like Neanderthal(穴居人的) man--indeed others still more remote from us than Neanderthal man--human rage becomes more comprehensible.
In our everyday language and behavior there are many reminders of those early struggles. We are always using the words "us and them". "Our" side is perpetually Wing to do down the "other" side. In ga
A. Why Human Armies Are Formed
B. Man’s Anger against Rage
C. The Human Capacity for Rage
D. Early Struggles of Angry Man
[单项选择]A strange thing happened to me last Sunday. It was (16) a beautiful day that I drove to go for a look in the country.
On the way back home, my car (17) . It was out of gas on a lonely road far from a town. I decided to walk (18) I found someone who could (19) some gas.
I had walked almost a mile (20) I finally found a house near the road. I was glad to see it (21) it was getting dark.
I knocked at the door and a little old lady (22) long white hair answered. She said, "I’ve been (23) for you for a long time. Come in. (24) is almost ready."
"But I only come (25) some gas," I answered. I couldn’t imagine (26) she was talking about.
"Oh, Alfred! Gas You used to like tea."
I quickly explained that my car was out of gas, (27) she didn’t seem to hear me. She just (28) calling me Alfred and talking about how long (29) since she had seen me.
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