新GRE逻辑阅读 每日一练6

　　编辑点评： GRE阅读考试的材料，非常强调逻辑的关系，所以逻辑要点是大家在解GRE阅读题的时候的关键，本文就为大家例举了这样一篇逻辑短文，供大家参考和练习。

　　随着GRE阅读考试的难度日益增加，大家需要有针对性地进行练习，本文为大家例举的就是逻辑短文的练习，文末还附有答案，供大家更好地练习。

　　Some modern anthropologists hold that biological evolution has shaped not only human morphology but also human behavior. The role those anthropologists ascribe to evolution is not of dictating the details of 5 human behavior but one of imposing constraints ways of feeling, thinking, and acting that come natu-rally in archetypal situations in any culture. Our frailties emotions and motives such as rage, fear, greed, gluttony, joy, lust, love may be a very mixed 10 assortment, but they share at least one immediate quality: we are, as we say, in the grip of them. And thus they give us our sense of constraints. Unhappily, some of those frailties our need for ever-increasing security among them are presently 15 maladaptive. Yet beneath the overlay of cultural detail, they, too, are said to be biological in direction,and therefore as natural to us as are our appendixes. We would need to comprehend thoroughly their adaptive origins in order to understand how badly they20 guide us now. And we might then begin to resist their pressure.

　　1. Which of the following most probably provides an appropriate analogy from human morphol- ogy for the details versus constraints distinction made in the passage in relation to human behavior?

　　The ability of most people to see all the colors of the visible spectrum as against most people s inability to name any but the primary colors

　　The ability of even the least fortunate people to show compassion as against people s inability to mask their feelings completely

　　The ability of some people to dive to great depths as against most people s inability to swim long distances

　　The psychological profile of those people who are able to delay gratification as against people s inability to control their lives completely

　　The greater lung capacity of mountain peoples that helps them live in oxygen-poor air as against people s inability to fly without special apparatus

　　2. It can be inferred that in his discussion of maladaptive frailties the author assumes that

　　evolution does not favor the emergence of adaptive characteristics over the emergence of maladaptive ones

　　any structure or behavior not positively adaptive is regarded as transitory in evolutionary theory

　　maladaptive characteristics, once fixed, make the emergence of other maladaptive characteristics more likely

　　the designation of a characteristic as being maladaptive must always remain highly tentative

　　changes in the total human environment can outpace evolutionary change

　　答案：E/E

　　上文的题目大家答对了几题?大家不仅要多做题，更要善于总结，这样才会有针对性地提高。