新GRE逻辑阅读 每日一练23

　　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。

　　Throughout human history there have been many stringent taboos concerning watching other people eat or eating in the presence of others. There have been attempts to explain these taboos in terms of 5 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. Undoubtedly such elements 10 exist in the taboos, but there is an additional element with a much more fundamental importance. 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 15 for life.

　　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

　　had always had a plentiful supply of food

　　emphasized the need to share worldly goods

　　had a nomadic rather than an agricultural way of life

　　emphasized the value of privacy

　　discouraged overindulgence

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

　　general palatability of food

　　religious significance of food

　　limited availability of food

　　various sources of food

　　nutritional value of food

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

　　答案：A/C，/Undoubtedly such elements。。。

　　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。