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A strange thing about humans is their capacity for blind rage. Rage is presu
A strange thing about humans is their capacity for blind rage. Rage is presu
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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(施展) it against other animals. If we en counter 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. It is hard to see any survival value in attacking one’s own, but if we take ac count of the long competition, which must have existed between our own subspecies and others like Neanderthal man(尼安德特人)—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 trying to do down the "other" side. In games we artificially create other subspecies we can attack. The opposition of "us" and "them" is the touchstone of the two-party system of "democratic" politics. Although there are no very serious consequences to many of these modern psychological representations of the "us and them" emotion, it is as well to remember that the original aim was not to beat the other subspecies in a game but to exterminate it.
The readiness with which humans allow themselves to be regimented has permitted large armies to be formed, which, taken together with the "us and them" blind rage, has led to destructive clashes within our subspecies itself. The First World War is an example in which Europe divided itself into two imaginary subspecies. And there is a similar extermination battle now in Northern Ireland. The idea that there is a religious basis for this clash is illusory, for not even the Pope has been able to control it. The clash is much more primitive than the Christian religion, much older in its emotional origin. The conflict in Ireland is unlikely to stop until a greater primitive fear is imposed from outside the community, or until the combatants(作战者) become exhausted.
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other animals
解析
题干的关键词是strangely,由此可以把答案定位在第一段第二句。本题的意思是,虽然盲目的愤怒可能是人类生存的本能,但奇怪的是我们很少把这种愤怒发泄在…。短文中but the surprising thing about it is that we do not deploy it against other animals。据此,空格应该填入other animals。
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