Human beings are animals. We breathe, eat and digest, and reproduce the same life （1）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 to 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 （11） We have excellent vision and hands that can（12）objects with a precision unmatched by any other （13）. Most importantly, we have a large brain with an almost （14） number of neural （15） .We have used this physical equipment to create culture, the key to our survival and success. If we live in the Arctic, we supply the warmth our tropical bodies need （16） clothing, shelter, and（17） heat. If a million people want to live in a desert that supplies natural food for only a few hundred, we find water to grow food and（18） deficits by transporting supplies from distant places. Inhabitants of our eventual moon colony will bring their own food and oxygen and then create an artificial earth environment to supply necessities. With culture, we can overcome our natural limitations.It was not always （19）. Our distant ancestors were just animals, faced with the limits of their physical equipment. They had no （20）and lacked the physical capacity to use it.
A.processes B.acts C.modes D.procedures
问题2：
A.On B.With C.For D.By
问题3：
A.Stripped B.Pared C.Peeled D.Removed
问题4：
A.intelligent B.impressive C.influential D.incentive
问题5：
A.barely B.hardly C.nearly D.scarcely
问题6：
A.meaning B.judgment C.perspective D.sense
问题7：
A.bet B.chance C.fact D.luck
问题8：
A.filled B.loaded C.stuffed D.scattered
问题9：
A.residence B.colony C.home D.empire
问题10：
A.Apart from B.With regard to C.With the exception of D.In spite of
问题11：
A.abilities B.potentials C.capabilities D.possibilities
问题12：
A.maneuver B.manage C.manipulate D.manufacture
问题13：
A.animal B.animals C.creatures D.creature44.
问题14：
A.infinite B.unknown C.boundless D.ceaseless
问题15：
A.connections B.relations C.activities D.accesses
问题16：
A.for B.to C.with D.by
问题17：
A.artificial B.fake C.unreal D.unauthentic
问题18：
A.add up B.break up C.make up D.cut up
问题19：
A.this B.thus C.hence D.that
问题20：
A.intellect B.equipment C.competence D.culture
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