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Our ape-men forefathers had no obvious natural weapons in the struggle(1)___
Our ape-men forefathers had no obvious natural weapons in the struggle(1)___
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Our ape-men forefathers had no obvious natural weapons in the struggle(1)_____ survival in the open. They had neither the powerful teeth nor the strong claws of the big cats. They could not (2)_____ with the bear, whose strength, speed and claws(3)_____ an impressive "small-fire" weaponry. They could not even defend themselves (4)_____ running swiftly like the horses, zebras or small animals. If the ape-men had attempted to compete on those terms(5)_____, they would have been(6)_____ to failure and extinction. But they were(7)_____ with enormous concealed advantages of a kind not possessed by any of their competitors.
In the search(8)_____ the pickings of the forest, the ape-men had(9)_____ 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(10)_____ that lay far (11)_____ the reach of the original inhabitants of the grassland. Good long-distance sight was(12)_____ 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(13)_____ they had had to do was climb a tree. Out in the open, however, this simple solution was not(14)_____. Climbing a hill would have helped, but in many places the ground was(15)______. The ape-men(16)_____ 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(17)_____. It was extremely unstable and it meant that the already slow ape-men became slower still.(18)_____, they persevered and their bone structure gradually became(19)_____ to the new, unstable position that(20)_____ them the name Homo Erectus, upright man. [br] (2)
选项
A、match
B、compare
C、rival
D、equal
答案
B
解析
上一句说猿人祖先没有大型猫科动物那样强有力的牙齿和坚硬的爪子,因此推断此处表示“他们没法与熊相比”.compare with“与……相比较”,符合句意。match,rival以及equal作“比得上”时,都为及物动词,不跟with连用。
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