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2023-2024学年高三上学期期末考试(一模)英语试题分类汇编
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2024届上海市闵行区高三上学期学业质量调研一模英语试卷
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Man the Hunter, a key idea in human sciences, proposes that hunting was a major driver of human evolution and that men conducted this activity, leaving women out. It holds that human ancestors had a division of 41 , rooted in biological differences between males and females, in which males evolved to hunt and provide, and females tended to children and domestic duties. It assumes that males are 42 superior to females and that pregnancy (怀孕)and child-caring reduce or eliminate (根除) a female’s ability to hunt.
Man the Hunter has dominated the study of human evolution for nearly half a century and spread through popular 43 . It is represented in museum displays and textbook figures, Saturday morning cartoons and feature films. The thing is, it’s 44 .
Researchers look at the damage on our ancestors’ remains for clues to their 45. Neandertal females and males do not vary in 46 patternsor exhibit sex differences in diseases from repetitive actions. Their skeletons show the same modes of wear and tear. This discovery implies that they were engaging in 47 activities, from hunting large game animals to processing fur for leather.
Observations of recent and contemporary societies provide direct evidence of women 48
hunting. Agta people of the Philippines, 49 , hunt while pregnant and breastfeeding, and they have the same hunting success as Agta men.
A recent study of cross-cultural observational data lasting the past 100 years—much of which was 50 by Man the Hunter contributors—found that women from a wide range of cultures hunt animals for food. 79 percent of the 63 societies with clear descriptions of their hunting strategies reportedly feature women 51. The women are involved in hu