单选题 Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in reality a member of a hunting group. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey (猎物) into a goal mouth. If his aim is accurate and he scores a goal, he enjoys the hunter's triumph of killing his prey.
To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look back at our fore- fathers. They spent over a million years evolving as cooperative hunters. Their very survival depended on success in the hunting field. Under this pressure their whole way of life, even their bodies, became greatly changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers. They cooperated as skillful male group attackers.
Then about ten thousand years ago, after this immensely long period of hunting their food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life, was put to a new use—that of controlling and domesticating their prey. The hunt became suddenly out of date. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of the hunt were no longer essential for survival. The skills and thirst for hunting remained, however, and demanded new outlets.
Hunting for sport replaced hunting for necessity. This new activity involved all the original hunting sequences, but the aim of the operation was no longer to avoid starvation. Instead the sportsmen set off .to test their skills against prey that were no longer essential to their survival. To be sure, the kill may have been eaten, but there were other, much simpler ways of obtaining a meaty meal.

单选题 The author believes that sporting activities ______.
A. are forms of biological development B. are essentially forms of taming the prey
C. have actually developed from hunting D. have changed the way of hunting

单选题 In a football game, what is equal to the prey in hunting is ______.
A. any member of the opposing team B. the goal mouth
C. the goal keeper D. the football

单选题 For over a million years, our forefathers were basically ______.
A. cooperating hunters B. successful farmers
C. runners and jumpers D. skillful sportsmen

单选题 The word "operation" (Para. 4) refers to ______.
A. domesticating animals B. hunting
C. prey killing D. sports activities

单选题 Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the passage?
A. It is farming that gives human beings enough leisure time for sporting activities.
B. Farming is very important in human civilization because it saves human beings from risks and uncertainties of hunting for survival.
C. It is hunting that provides human beings with much simpler ways of obtaining meaty meals.
D. Sporting activities satisfy the desire of modern man to exercise hunting skills which his fore fathers developed for survival.