Human beings are animals. We breathe, eat and digest, and reproduce the same life【B1】common to all animals. In a biological laboratory, rats, monkeys, and humans seem very much the same. However, biological understanding is not enough:【B2】itself, it can never tell us what human beings are.【B3】to our physical equipment—the naked human body—we are not an【B4】animal. We are tropical creatures,【B5】hairless and sensitive to cold. We are not fast and have neither claws nor sharp teeth to defend ourselves. We need a lot of food but have almost no physical equipment to help us get it. In the purely physical【B6】, our species seems a poor【B7】for survival. But we have survived—survived and multiplied and【B8】the earth. Some day we will have a【B9】living on the moon, a place with neither air nor water and with temperatures that turn gases into solids. How can we have done all these things? Part of the answer is physical.【B10】its limitations, our physical equipment has some important potentials. Inhabitants of our eventual moon colony will bring their own food and oxygen and then create an artificial earth environment to supply necessities.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：life processes意为"生命历程"，在这里符合题意。C项modes是指"方式，方法"；D项procedure指"程序，手续，常规"。例句：The flew work procedure is a great improvement on/over the old one．新工序比起老工序来是一个巨大的改善。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：By itself为习惯用语，意思是"独自地，单独地"。例句：The house stands by itself outside the village，这幢房子孤单地坐落在村外。所以选项D为正确答案，即可排除A、B、C项。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：A项strip是"脱去，剥去"。B项pare是"削去，剥去(外皮)，(常与off，away连用)修剪，(常与away, down连用)削减"，。C项peel"(常与off连用)去(皮或壳等)"。例句：The wallpaper is peeling off．壁纸在剥落下来。D项remove"移动"。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：此处可译为："当人类处于赤裸状态时，看起来比别的动物并不优越多少，给人的印象并不深刻"。B项impressive是"给人深刻印象的，感人的"符合题意。A．项intelligent"聪明的，有智力的"；influential"有影响力的"：incentive"刺激的，诱发的"；均不符合题意。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：此处可译为："如果仅从肉体的意义上看，人类很难生存下来"。A项bet是"打赌"，暗指不确定的事物。C项Chance是"机会，可能性，偶然发生"。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：A项fill"注满，用…装满"，fill the earth指"遍布地球"；强调分布范围之广，符合题意。B项load"装载；大量供给，负荷，重担，装载量，加载"。C项stuff"塞入，塞满"；D项scatter"分散，散开"。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：从下文中可找到提示："Inhabitants of our eventual moon colony will bring their own food…"，故选B。colony是"殖民地，侨民"；A项residence是"居住，住处"。D项empire是"帝国，帝权"。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：根椐题意，应选择表示让步关系的in spite of"尽管"，例句：In spite of great efforts we failed to catty our plans through．尽管我们付出了巨大努力，我们还是没能完成计划。A项apart from和B项with the exception of的意思是"除…之外"，C项with regard to"关于"；即可排除A、B、C项。