Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of
hunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modern 【S1】______.
footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised hunting
pack, His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football
and his prey into a goal mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and he 【S2】______.
scores a goal, enjoys the hunter's triumph of killing his prey. 【S3】______.
To understand how this transformation has taken place we
must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over a 【S4】______.
million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very 【S5】______.
survival depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this
pressure their whole way of life, even if their bodies, became 【S6】______.
radically changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers,
aimers, throwers and prey-killers. They co operated as skillful 【S7】______.
male-group attackers.
Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely 【S8】______.
long formative period of hunting for food, they became farmers.
Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life,
were put to a new use that of penning(把......关在圈中), 【S9】______.
controlling and domesticating their prey. The food was there on
the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of
farming were no longer essential for survival. 【S10】______.
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