問題詳情

       From the domestication of fire to the invention of cooking, there was a big practical and conceptual gap foringenious imaginations to cross. In some climates fire can be quickly drilled. In some places, if suitable flints andkindling are to hand, it can be struck with reasonable reliability. In very remote antiquity, however, most societies didnot enjoy ideal conditions of making fire. It had to be garnered and preserved, in the style of the sacred flame whicheven in modern societies we sometimes keep alight, in memory, say, of our honored dead or celebration of our“Olympic ideal.” For most of the past, in most places, it was easier and more reliable to keep fire alight and to carry itaround than to kindle it at need. Some peoples have lost or perhaps never had the techniques for igniting it—or maybethey simply think of fire as too sacred to make themselves. This is said to be why some tribes in Tasmania, theAndaman Islands, and New Guinea travel to beg fire from their neighbors, if it is extinguished, without trying to start itby means of their own.
19 What is this passage mainly about?
(A) How cooking was invented.
(B) Why people refused to make fire with imagination.
(C) How people learned to kindle and preserve fire.
(D) Why it was never easy for people to make fire for daily uses.

參考答案

答案：D
難度：困難0.291667
統計：A(5),B(12),C(16),D(14),E(0)

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