单选题 Human beings are animals. We breathe, eat and digest, and reproduce the same life (3) common to all animals. In a biological laboratory, rats, monkeys and humans seem very much the same.
However, biological understanding is not enough: (2) itself, it can never tell us what human beings are. (3) to our physical equipment the naked human body—we are not an (4) animal. We are tropical creatures, (5) 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 (6) , our species seems a poor (7) for survival.
But we have survived—survived and multiplied and (8) the earth. Some day we will have a (9) 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. (10) its limitations, our physical equipment has some important potentials.

单选题 A. processes B. acts C. modes D. procedures
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] life processes意为“生命历程”。modes指“方式,方法”;procedures指“程序,手续,常规”。
单选题 A. On B. With C. For D. By
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] By itself为固定用法,意思是“独自地,单独地”。
单选题 A. Stripped B. Pared C. Peeled D. Removed
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] strip“脱去,剥去”。pare“削去;修剪,(逐步)消除”。peel“去(皮或壳等)”。remove“移动”。
单选题 A. intelligent B. impressive C. influential D. incentive
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 这句话的意思是“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”。intelligent“聪明的,有智力的”;influential“有影响力的”;incentive“刺激,激励”均不符合题意。
单选题 A. barely B. hardly C. nearly D. scarcely
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] nearly表示“几乎,将近”;barely,scarcely,hardly表示“简直没有,几乎不”。
单选题 A. meaning B. judgement C. perspective D. sense
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] in...sense为固定用法,意思是“从某种意义上说”。例如:in the literal/strict sense“就字面/精确的意义而言”。
单选题 A. bet B. chance C. fact D. luck
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] bet表示“有可能成功的人(或事),可寄以希望的人(或事物)”。这句话的意思是“如果仅从身体条件来看,人类很难生存下来”。
单选题 A. filled B. loaded C. stuffed D. scattered
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] A项filled“注满,用……装满”。B项loaded“装载;大量供给”。C项stuffed“塞入,塞满”。D项scattered“分散,散开”。fill the earth指“遍布地球”,强调分布范围之广。
单选题 A. residence B. colony C. home D. empire
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] A项residence“居民”;B项colony殖民地;C项home“家”;D项empire“王国”。根据上下文,B正确。
单选题 A. Apart from B. With regard to
C. With the exception of D. In spite of
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] apart from、with the exception of的意思是“除……之外”。with regard to“关于”;in spite of“尽管”。根据题意,应选择表示让步关系的in spite of。