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GRE阅读题目解析:历史上的严格禁忌

2017-03-23 09:54:00来源:网络

  P5

  1

  Throughout human history there have been many stringent taboos concerning watching other people eat or eating in the presence of others.

  纵观人类历史,有很多严格的禁忌是关于,不能看别人吃东西,或不要在公开场合吃东西。

  2

  There have been attempts to explain these taboos in terms of inappropriate social relationships either between those who are involved and those who are not simultaneously involved in the satisfaction of a bodily need, or between those already satiated and those who appear to be shamelessly gorging.

  很多解释试图将这些禁忌归于不恰当的社会关系,已经满足口腹之欲的人和尚未满足的人之间,已经吃撑的人和还在狼吞虎咽的人之间。

  3

  Undoubtedly such elements exist in the taboos, but there is an additional element with a much more fundamental importance.

  禁忌无疑包含了这些因素,但还有更为重要的另一个因素。

  4

  In prehistoric times, when food was so precious and the on-lookers so hungry, not to offer half of the little food one had was unthinkable, since every glance was a plea for life. (124 words)

  史前时代食物如此珍贵,而旁观的人又如此饿,实在不忍心不把本来就不多的食物见面分一半,因为看你吃就像在求你救命。

  11. If the argument in the passage is valid, taboos against eating in the presence of others who are not also eating would be LEAST likely in a society that

  (A) had always had a plentiful supply of food

  (B) emphasized the need to share worldly goods

  (C) had a nomadic rather than an agricultural way of life

  (D) emphasized the value of privacy

  (E) discouraged overindulgence

  选 A

  B 强调分吃

  D 强调隐私

  E 劝阻过度沉溺

  上面三项无争议,如果社会有这些特点,当别人的面吃东西都会形成某种禁忌,因为不想分,因为不想被人看到,因为不想被人说吃太多,所以倾向于不在别人面前吃。

  C 生活方式是游牧的而不是农业的

  游牧生活方式往往比农业生活的食物来源更不稳定,这是个常识。看看北方民族多少次南下打我们你就不难想象;另一方面,中原文明绝少因为粮食不足去打游牧民族,因为第一够吃,第二打不过。

  所以游牧生活意味着经常可能食物短缺,也就更可能发展出这种禁忌了。

  A 总是有丰富的食物供应

  总是够吃也就不会因为句 4 的原因形成禁忌了,所以 A 是 LEAST likely 。

  12. The author‘s hypothesis concerning the origin of taboos against watching other people eat emphasizes the

  (A) general palatability of food

  (B) religious significance of food

  (C) limited availability of food

  (D) various sources of food

  (E) nutritional value of food

  选 C

  句 3:

  Undoubtedly such elements exist in the taboos, but there is an additional element with a much more fundamental importance.

  最重要的一个原因是食物短缺。

  13. Select the sentence in the passage in which the author suggests that past attempts to explain some taboos concerning eating are incomplete.

  句 3 。

  Undoubtedly such elements exist in the taboos, but there is an additional element with a much more fundamental importance.

  句 2 是具体介绍 attempts ,看不出 incomplete 。

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