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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.
(124 words)
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
(A) had always had a plentiful supply of food
(B) emphasized the need to share worldly goods
(C) had a nomadic rather than an agricultural
way of life
(D) emphasized the value of privacy
(E) discouraged overindulgence
12. The author‘s hypothesis concerning the origin of
taboos against watching other people eat emphasizes the
(A) general palatability of food
(B) religious significance of food
(C) limited availability of food
(D) various sources of food
(E) 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. |
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