首页
登录
职称英语
Our ape-men forefathers had no obvious natural weapons in the struggle for s
Our ape-men forefathers had no obvious natural weapons in the struggle for s
游客
2024-04-24
48
管理
问题
Our ape-men forefathers had no obvious natural weapons in the struggle for survival in the open. They had neither the powerful teeth nor the strong claws of the big cats. They could not【C1】______with the bear, whose strength, speed and claws provided an impressive ’ small fire’ weaponry. They could not even defend themselves by running swiftly like the horses, zebras or small animals. If the ape-men had attempted to compete on those terms in the open, they would have been【C2】______to failure and extinction. But they were【C3】______with enormous concealed advantages of a kind not possessed by any of their competitors. In the search of the picking of the forest, the ape-men had【C4】______efficient stereoscopic vision and a sense of colour that the animals of the grasslands did not possess. The ability to see clearly at close range permitted the ape-men to study practical problems in a way that lay far【C5】______the search of the original inhabitants of the grassland. Good long-distance sight was quite another matter. Lack of long-distance vision had not been a problem for forest-dwelling apes and monkeys because the higher the viewpoint, the greater the range of sight—so【C6】______they had had to do was climb a tree. Out in the open, however, this simple solution was not【C7】______. Climbing a hill would have helped, but in many places the ground was flat.
The ape-men【C8】______the only possible solution. They reared up as high as possible on their hind limbs and began to walk upright.
This vital change of physical position brought about considerable disadvantages. It was extremely unstable and it meant that the already slow ape-men became slower still. However, they persevered and their bone structure gradually became【C9】______to the new, unstable position that【C10】______them the name Homo erectus, upright man.
A)compare B)driven C)match D)endowed
E)doomed F)developed G)all H)adopted
I)earned J)generated K)familiarized L)adapted
M)available N)beyond O)bestowed [br] 【C2】
选项
答案
E
解析
此处要填动词,be doomed to do sth,意为“注定要遭(厄运、失败、死亡等)”,将要发生的一定是坏事。原文中介词to后接的是“失败和灭绝”,因此,正确答案是E。
转载请注明原文地址:http://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3568525.html
相关试题推荐
Ourape-menforefathershadnoobviousnaturalweaponsinthestrugglefors
Ourape-menforefathershadnoobviousnaturalweaponsinthestrugglefors
Ourape-menforefathershadnoobviousnaturalweaponsinthestrugglefors
Ourape-menforefathershadnoobviousnaturalweaponsinthestrugglefors
Ourape-menforefathershadnoobviousnaturalweaponsinthestrugglefors
Throughouthistorymanhasobservedsuchnaturalcyclesastherisingandse
Throughouthistorymanhasobservedsuchnaturalcyclesastherisingandse
Throughouthistorymanhasobservedsuchnaturalcyclesastherisingandse
Throughouthistorymanhasobservedsuchnaturalcyclesastherisingandse
Throughouthistorymanhasobservedsuchnaturalcyclesastherisingandse
随机试题
[originaltext]Iwillletyouknowthatthere’sabigdifferencebetweenund
IonceknewadognamedNewtonwhohadauniquesenseofhumor.WheneverIt
[originaltext]IntheUnitedStates,manypeopleoncelivedinlargetwo-or
Mostofusspendourlivesseekingthenaturalworld.Tothis【C1】______wego
FlorenceSephtonis77andlivesinNorthWales.Sheisreadingforanarts
患者女性,28岁。妊娠后期出现进行性背痛、下肢乏力、食欲减退。查体:第6胸椎轻度
确诊为异位妊娠破裂、出血性休克,应采取的紧急措施为()。A.立即输血 B.立
说明企业集团职能机构的设计。
小李是一名工程师,每月的闲置资金较多,于是将一部分存入银行,另一部分用来购买投资
根据《处方管理办法》,医疗机构不得限制门诊就诊人员持处方到零售药店购药的是A.麻
最新回复
(
0
)