问黄金阅读4.p,cave art in Europe

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The particular symbolic significance of the cave paintings in southwestern France is more explicitly revealed, perhaps, by the results of a study conducted by researchers Patricia Rice and Ann Paterson. The data they present suggest that the animals portrayed in the cave paintings were mostly the ones that the painters preferred for meat and for materials such as hides. For example, wild cattle (bovines) and horses are portrayed more often than we would expect by chance, probably because they were larger and heavier (meatier) than other animals in the environment. In addition, the paintings mostly portray animals that the painters may have feared the most because of their size, speed, natural weapons such as tusks and horns, and the unpredictability of their behavior. That is, mammoths, bovines, and horses are portrayed more often than deer and reindeer.
    Thus, the paintings are consistent with the idea that the art is related to the importance of hunting in the economy of Upper Paleolithic people. Consistent with this idea, according to the investigators, is the fact that the art of the cultural period that followed the Upper Paleolithic also seems to reflect how people got their food. But in that period, when getting food no longer depended on hunting large game animals (because they were becoming extinct), the art ceased to focus on portrayals of animals.

10．According to paragraph 4, which of the following may best represent the attitude of hunters toward deer and reindeer in the Upper Paleolithic period?
                                        

○Hunters did not fear deer and reindeers as much as they did large game animals such as horses and mammoths.
                                        

○Hunters were not interested in hunting deer and reindeer because of their size and speed.
                                        

○Hunters preferred the meat and hides of deer and reindeer to those of other animals.
                                        

○Hunters avoided deer and reindeer because of their natural weapons, such as horns.

我觉得没有一个对的，答案是A

我觉得A也不对，因为文中“the painters may have feared the most because of their size, speed, natural weapons such as tusks and horns, and the unpredictability of their behavior. That is, mammoths, bovines, and horses are portrayed more often than deer and reindeer. ”说明了，painter害怕那些大身材，速度快，有自然武器的动物，后面跟了一句that is, m,b..portrayed more oftern than d,r.

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 the paintings mostly portray animals that the painters may have feared the most because of their size, speed, natural weapons such as tusks and horns, and the unpredictability of their behavior. That is, mammoths, bovines, and horses are portrayed more often than deer and reindeer

偶觉得A是对的，不晓得这样说，你同意不同意。

A是根据上面这句话直接可以得到的。你看，文中他用了MOST，我觉得要考的就是这点，所以答案中他说,不像害怕horse 和 mammoth那样，害怕deer 和reindeer

louis_huang

恩，对！

A的意思理解错了