But let no one think that pleasure is immoral. Pleasure in itself is a great good, all pleasure, but its consequences may be such (31) the sensible person eschews, certain varieties of (32) . Nor need pleasure be gross and sensual. They are wise in their generation (33) have discovered that intellectual pleasure is the most satisfying and the most enduring. It is well to (34) the habit of reading. There are (35) sports in which you can engage to your own satisfaction after you have passed the prime of life; there are no games except patience, chess problems and crossword puzzles that you can play without someone to play them with you. Reading suffers (36) no such disadvantages; there is no occupation--except perhaps needle-work, but that leaves the restless spirit (37) liberty-- which you can more easily (38) up at any moment, for any period, and more easily put (39) when other calls press upon you; there is no other amusement that can be obtained in these happy days of public liberties and cheap editions at so small a (40) . To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. (39)()
A. below
B. into
C. across
D. aside
Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewed biologically, the modem foot-bailer 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 goalmouth. 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 forefathers. 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 The hunt became suddenly out of date.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. In a football game what is equal to the prey in hunting is().
A. any member of the opposing, team
B. the goal keeper
C. the goal-mouth
D. the football